seem

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Signification

Concepts

Essentially , we humans seem to wish to separate spacetime into slices of constant time
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Essentiellement, nous, les humains, semblons vouloir séparer l'espace-temps en tranches de temps constant.

The microstructures of martensite and bainite at first seem quite similar .

Les microstructures de la martensite et de la bainite semblent d'abord assez similaires.

(Anglais)

(copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
(obsolete) To befit; to beseem.

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/siːm/

Hérité de moyen anglais

Appartenant à écossais

Appartenant à danois

Appartenant à féroïen

Appartenant à vieux norrois

Appartenant à danois

Appartenant à vieux norrois

Appartenant à ancien anglais

In summary

From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English sōm (“agreement”).