What's the difference between seaming and seeming?

Seaming


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seam
  • (n.) The act or process of forming a seam or joint.
  • (n.) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
  • (2) Osteomalacia is characterized by large osteoid seams and a preserved volume of bone trabeculae.
  • (3) A sclerotic border and osteoid seams were noted, two features that seem not to have been previously reported in early lesions.
  • (4) Given the Panahi situation, it seems almost appropriate that this year's festival has been quite downbeat with films mining the darker seams of the human condition.
  • (5) While the functional significance of the seams remains unknown and their specific composition clearly requires further study, it is likely that they represent important functional (e.g., viscoelastic) or biological (e.g., nutritional) subdivisions of ligament substance.
  • (6) 1.59pm BST 32nd over: Sri Lanka 89-2 (Jayawardene 11, Sangakkara 22) A jaffa from Plunkett from round the wicket beats Sangakkara all ends up – it was angled in on middle stump, then seamed away to beat the outside edge.
  • (7) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
  • (8) Carefully pull the frayed seam over the original seam line and pin in place.
  • (9) The histological study of the tibiae showed decreased mineralization with narrower trabeculae and enlarged osteoid seams; bone resorption at the inner surface was also significantly decreased.
  • (10) The amount of osteoid and the length of the osteoid seams were normal, whereas the mean width of the osteoid seams was decreased.
  • (11) A double white line parallel to the lateral ribs produced by the double seam of the bag distinguishes this artifact from a true pneumothorax.
  • (12) Calcification rate in the cortical bone of the tibia was reduced with a parallel reduction in endosteal osteoid seam width.
  • (13) It shows the costs in 1979 included £464 spent on replacing linen, £39 on "sewing carpet seams", £19 on an ironing board and £527 on cleaning carpets.
  • (14) In infants, human femoral arteries display seam-like internal elastic lamina (IEL) covered with endothelium on the luminal side and with smooth muscle cells (SMC) on the medial side.
  • (15) The second minor discontinuity to appear is planar (seam), shown here in a dryolestid eupantothere.
  • (16) (5) The transfer function at the bone seams and thinner areas of the bones was insufficient for modal analysis of the facial region and total cranial bone of the human dry skull.
  • (17) The seams are filled with subunits that appear to bind the flaps together.
  • (18) Crystallization of bone salt is severely impaired and an osteomalacia-like picture may be produced with decreased osteoblastic activity, widened growth plates, excessive osteoid seams and short, thickened bones.
  • (19) The complication rate of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the hand of a well trained surgeon seams to be comparable or even smaller than in conventional procedure.
  • (20) Couple or individual reaction after genetic counselling in case of Recklinghausen disease seams us to be very different according to the patients and for a patient according to the moment of counseling.

Seeming


Definition:

  • (n.) Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.
  • (n.) Apprehension; judgment.
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seem
  • (a.) Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
  • (2) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
  • (3) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (4) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
  • (5) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
  • (6) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (7) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (8) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (9) The curious thing, it seems to me, is that she was never criticised for it.
  • (10) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
  • (11) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (12) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
  • (13) Under resting conditions, the variance of cerebral metabolism seems to be primarily related to regions which are closely involved with the limbic system.
  • (14) Since intracellular Ca2+ seems to play a role in stimulus-secretion coupling and ion movements, several aspects of Ca2+ homeostasis have been investigated in CF.
  • (15) At present, combination of cisplatin with vindesine or 5-FU seems most effective.
  • (16) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
  • (17) This method seems the best way to evaluate the respective interactions of intonation with syntax and pragmatics.
  • (18) Neither environmental nor bacteriological factors seemed to be involved in the etiology of the disease.
  • (19) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.
  • (20) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.