Hem vs. Seam: What's the Difference?

An edge or border on a piece of cloth, especially a finished edge, as for a garment or curtain, made by folding an edge under and stitching it down.

A line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces of material along their margins.

The height or level of the bottom edge of a skirt, dress, or coat; a hemline.

A similar line, ridge, or groove made by fitting, joining, or lapping together two sections along their edges.

A short cough or clearing of the throat made especially to gain attention, warn another, hide embarrassment, or fill a pause in speech.

A suture.

To fold back and stitch down the edge of.

A scar.

To surround and shut in; enclose

A line across a surface, as a crack, fissure, or wrinkle.

To utter a hem.

A thin layer or stratum, as of coal or rock.

To hesitate in speech.

To put together with or as if with a seam.

Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

To mark with a groove, wrinkle, scar, or other seamlike line.

An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.

To become fissured or furrowed; crack open.

(sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.

(sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.

A rim or margin of something.

A suture.

In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.

(geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.

To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.

(cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.

To make a hem.

A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.

(transitive) To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.

A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

(transitive) To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.

(figurative) A line of junction; a joint.

Obsolete form of 'em

(historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.

Them

(historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.

An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.

Grease; tallow; lard.

An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.

To put together with a seam.

The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen it and prevent raveling.

To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.

Border; edge; margin.

To mark with a seam or line; to scar.

A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.

To crack open along a seam.

To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking.

(cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.

To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.

(cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.

To border; to edge

Grease; tallow; lard.

Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down

The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

Fold over and sew together to provide with a hem;

Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.

Utter `hem' or `ahem'

A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.

A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

A denomination of weight or measure.

To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.

To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.

To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.

To become ridgy; to crack open.

Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces

A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;

A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit;

Put together with a seam;