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Definition: IT SEEMS |
IT SEEMS1. It appears; it is understood as true; it is said. A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his misstress on a great lake. --Addison. Syn: To appear; look. Usage: Seem , Appear . To appear has reference to a thing's being presented to our view; as, the sun appears; to seem is connected with the idea of semblance, and usually implies an inference of our mind as to the probability of a thing's being so; as, a storm seems to be coming. ``The story appears to be true,'' means that the facts, as presented, go to show its truth; ``the story seems to be true,'' means that it has the semblance of being so, and we infer that it is true. ``His first and principal care being to appear unto his people such as he would have them be, and to be such as he appeared.'' --Sir P. Sidney. Ham. Ay, madam, it is common. Queen. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? Ham. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not ``seems.'' --Shak. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Will | Adverb: voluntarily; Adjective: at will, at pleasure; a volonte, a discretion; al piacere; ad libitum, ad arbitrium; as one thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: IT SEEMS |
| English words defined with "IT SEEMS": distortion ♦ fake, fiddling, footling ♦ Impersonal verb ♦ Lilliputian, little ♦ Meseems, Methinks, Mickey Mouse ♦ niggling ♦ olfactory brain, overrefinement ♦ petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, postiche, prima facie ♦ rhinencephalon ♦ second nature, Semble, sham, Springer, straining ♦ torture, trivial, twisting ♦ ventriloquism, ventriloquy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "IT SEEMS": A Portrait of J. Random Hacker ♦ Blains ♦ Clavie ♦ Euodias ♦ Golden Shoe ♦ Hanlon's Razor ♦ ISTM ♦ LPT ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Shorne ♦ Taste, Thumb ♦ Zoological Garden. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) Oh. Because you know, it seems to me that, aside from being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal (Benny & Joon; writing credit: Barry Berman) Time does fly fast, my son. It seems only yesterday I ordered your first diaper changed (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield) Excuse me, Mr. Andrews, but I've been doing the math in my head and it seems that with the number of people there are on board, there aren't enough lifeboats (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) It seems you feel our work is not a benefit to the public (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher) | |
Lyrics | And when it seems that i'm hopeless (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) Girl sometimes it seems to me (Price of Love; performing artist: Bad English) Now it seems they're telling me (I Heard a Rumour; performing artist: Bananarama) If it seems like I've been lost in let's remember (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel) Everyday it seems we're wasting away (Wanted Dead or Alive; performing artist: Bon Jovi) | |
Clever | I have changed my mind a dozen times. It seems to work better now. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | It seems themes are sought by thousands of mythical misses. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Strange As It Seems #2 (1934) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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![]() | Figure 40. Aime's mechanism devised by Georges Aime in 1841 for triggering the release of water sampling bottles. Although the records of Aime's tests of this mechanism are not available, it seems that by using this mechanism that he was the first to take a series of water samples from bottles strung on the same cable at a number of different levels within the water column. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Colonel, Cliff hopes this bride-kissing keeps up -- it seems to soften one up so!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | On the road to the White House : W.H.T.: I think I'll take to riding the wheel! it seems to be a good way to get to where you want to go. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | How incomplete it seems!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Or so it seems. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexandre Dumas | My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems begins where yours left off. |
Denis Diderot | The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. |
Eugenie Clark | It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago. |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. |
Jean De La BruyFre | Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. |
Jean Kerr | I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. |
John Lyly | It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study. |
Martial | The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. |
Sir Walter Scott | To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But this being supposed, it seems to some a very great difficulty, how any one should ever come to have a property in any thing: I will not content myself to answer, that if it be difficult to make out property, upon a supposition that God gave the world to Adam, and his posterity in common, it is impossible that any man, but one universal monarch, should have any property upon a supposition, that God gave the world to Adam, and his heirs in succession, exclusive of all the rest of his posterity. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | But Jane, it seems, had a letter from them very lately, and not a word was said about it. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | It seems odd, don’t you think, that the quality of the food should vary inversely with the brightness of the lighting |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | However, when one has Beresina, Leipsic, and Fontainebleau behind him, it seems as if he might distrust Waterloo |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The world, it seems, is drearier than even you, Lynch, imagined |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Where it seems best unto your royal self |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The shout I heard was upon the arrival of this engine, which it seems set out in four hours after my landing |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Doctors do not know why presbycusis happens, but it seems to run in families. (references) | |
At this point, it seems that some children are born with a genetic susceptibility to autism. (references) | ||
Anyone who has an ongoing cough or shortness of breath, even if it seems minor, should see his or her doctor. (references) | ||
Business | It seems, that U.S. chemicals are imported through Slovak distributors and agents. (references) | |
It seems reasonable for small and medium-sized foreign companies to choose the second option. (references) | ||
It seems clear that MII is reluctant to deploy the second generation CDMA (2G CDMA) technology. (references) | ||
Economic History | Venezuela | Due to the strong preference of Venezuelans for wheat-based products it seems that this policy will not be successful. (references) |
Brazil | Despite the economic turbulence caused by the most serious electric energy shortage ever in the country, it seems that the sector will maintain its growth path. (references) | |
South Africa | Following a large investment in the last quarter of 2000, it seems that Malaysian investments may again be on the increase, having been strong in the period before the 1998 Asian crisis. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Barbara Walters | Well, it seems to me, you know, I don't know. So I'm talking really off the top of my head and only from pretty much what I read in the papers. I think that our programs stay the same. |
Dennis Miller | Between skin bleach, hair relaxer and that scale-model Barbie nose, it seems to me that the only person who obviously has a problem with Michael Jackson's race, is Michael Jackson. |
Liza Minnelli | Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | This decision, it is understood, will preclude all contention among the individual claimants, as it seems that the Scoodiac and its northern branch bound the grants of land which have been made by the respective adjoining Governments. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | To civilize them, and even to prevent their extinction, it seems to be indispensable that their independence as communities should cease, and that the control of the United States over them should be complete and undisputed. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | But it seems to me visionary to suppose that in this state of things claims can be allowed on tracts of country on which they have neither dwelt nor made improvements, merely because they have seen them from the mountain or passed them in the chase. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expressions using "IT SEEMS": as it seems ♦ as it seems good to ♦ it seems a bit steep ♦ it seems like ♦ it seems to her that ♦ it seems to him ♦ it seems to me ♦ it seems to me that ♦ it seems unending ♦ on the surface it seems that. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "IT SEEMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | duket (seem). (various references) | |
Chinese | 看樣子 (it looks as if), 看來 (apparently, it appears, it seems that), 看上去 (it would appear). (various references) | |
Czech | vypadá. (various references) | |
Danish | for at forklare dannelsen af fejl paa atomar stoerrelse kunne man antage, at grupper af delvist ordnede atomer - i halvflydende tilstand - slaar sig ned paa fasegraensen (agglomerate into the interface, in a semi-liquid state, it seems easier to assume that groups of partly ordered atoms, to explain the formation of defects on the atomic scale), det ser ud til,at disse kaeder af karbider dannes paa dislokationslinierne,der loeber gennem austenitkornene,hvilket kan sluttes ud fra ligheden mellem anordningen af dislokationslinierne og karbidkaederne (it seems that the carbides from chains along the dislocations, which occur in the austenite grains. This can be concluded from the similarity between the arrangement of the carbide chains and the dislocations), condensed mass fibrøst væv (but it seems possible that the deposition of fibrous dissue may be part of an immune mechanism). (various references) | |
Dutch | om het ontstaan van defecten op atomaire schaal te verklaren,zou men kunnen aannemen dat in de half-vloeibare toestand groepen van gedeeltelijk geordende atomen op het grensvlak worden geconcentreerd (agglomerate into the interface, in a semi-liquid state, it seems easier to assume that groups of partly ordered atoms, to explain the formation of defects on the atomic scale), het schijnt dat de carbideketens in de dislocaties die de austenietkorrels doorsnijden worden gevormd.Dit blijkt uit de gelijkvormigheid van de carbideketens en de dislocaties (it seems that the carbides from chains along the dislocations, which occur in the austenite grains. This can be concluded from the similarity between the arrangement of the carbide chains and the dislocations). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaikuttaa siltä kuin (it seems as if), näyttää jo nyt ilmeiseltä (already it seems clear), minusta tuntuu (it seems to me), minusta on kuin (it seems to me as if), minusta näyttää siltä, että (it seems to me that). (various references) | |
French | il semble que ces chaînes de carbure suivent les lignes de dislocation qui traversent les grains austénitiques, car leur disposition ressemble celles de ces lignes de dislocation (it seems that the carbides from chains along the dislocations), il me semble que (it appears to me that, it seems to me that), il lui paraît (it seems to him), pour expliquer la formation des defauts l'échelle de la maille, il semble plus aisé d'admettre que des groupes d'atomes partiellement organisés - semi liquides - se déposent l'interface (it seems easier to assume that groups of partly ordered atoms), la Commission ne semble pas avoir fait preuve de toute la diligence requise (it seems that the Commission has not exercised all the diligence required of it). (various references) | |
German | es scheint. (various references) | |
Greek | για να ερμηνεύσουμε τον σχηματισμό ατελειών σε επίπεδο ατόμου φαίνεται πιο εύκολο να δεχτούμε οτι οι ομάδες μερικώς διατετεγμένων ατόμων- (it seems easier to assume that groups of partly ordered atoms), μου φαίνεται ότι (it seems to me that), φαίνεται οτι οι καρβιδικές αλυσίδες διατάσσονται σύμφωνα με τις γραμμές εξάρμοσης οι οποίες διασχίζουν τους ωστενιτικούς κόκκους.Αυτό συ (it seems that the carbides from chains along the dislocations). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "מ" (apparently, it appears that, seemingly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | úgy tûnik, úgy tűnik (it would seem), úgy látszik (it would seem). (various references) | |
Indonesian | agaknya (presumably, probably). (various references) | |
Italian | per spiegare la formazione di punti di difetti dell'ordine di grandezza del reticolo elementare si puo supporre che dei gruppi di atomi semi-liquidi parzialmente ordinati si raccolgano sull'interfaccia delle fasi (agglomerate into the interface, in a semi-liquid state, it seems easier to assume that groups of partly ordered atoms, to explain the formation of defects on the atomic scale), le catene di carburi sembra che si separino nelle linee di dislocazioni che attraversano il grano austenitico, come si puo dedurre dalla loro somiglianza con queste (it seems that the carbides from chains along the dislocations, which occur in the austenite grains. This can be concluded from the similarity between the arrangement of the carbide chains and the dislocations), condensazione massiccia di tessuto fibroso:deposito di tessuto fibroso (but it seems possible that the deposition of fibrous dissue may be part of an immune mechanism). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | て拳" (copula, detective, Don't you agree?, event, guess, has become possible, hope, huge, huge breasts, I fear, I hope, I think, I thought you'd say that!, in a big way, is now possible, may, polite copula in Japanese, probably, surely, Tae Kwon Do, therefore, think, to be, will). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | であろう (I fear, I hope, I think, may, probably, surely, will). (various references) | |
Manx | er lhiam (I presume, I suppose, I think, in my opinion, it seems to me). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itay eemssay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | parece. (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | parece. (various references) | |
Romanian | pare. (various references) | |
Russian | кажется. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | činiti se (appear, seem: it seems, think), čini joj se da (seem: it seems to her that). (various references) | |
Spanish | parece (seems). (various references) | |
Swedish | synas (appear, appear to be, be seen, seem, show), nog (enough, Satis, sufficiently). (various references) | |
Turkish | gibi geliyor, gözüküyor, görünüyor. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 2, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ou gar wV umeiV upolambanete outoi mequousin estin gar wra trith thV hmeraV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Non enim sicut vos aestimatis hii ebrii sunt cum sit hora diei tertia |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þas menn ne sind druncene, swa ge wenað, forðy hit is þriddu stund on ærnemergen. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For not as ye wenen, these ben dronkun, whanne it is the thridde our of the dai; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | These are not dronken as ye suppose: for it is yet but the thyrde houre of ye daye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 2, Verse 15 |
| Albanian | Këta nuk janë të dehur, siç po mendoni ju, sepse është vetëm ora e tretë e ditës. |
| Cebuano | Kay lahi sa inyong pagdahum, kining mga tawhana dili mga hubog, sanglit karon ikasiyam pa man lamang ang takna sa kabuntagon; |
| Croatian | Nisu ovi pijani, kako vi mislite - ta istom je treæa ura dana - |
| Danish | Thi disse ere ikke drukne, som I mene; det er jo den tredje Time på Dagen; |
| Dutch | Want deze zijn niet dronken, gelijk gij vermoedt; want het is eerst de derde ure van de dag. |
| Finnish | Eivät nämä ole juovuksissa, niinkuin te luulette; sillä nyt on vasta kolmas hetki päivästä. |
| French | Ces gens ne sont pas ivres, comme vous le supposez, car c`est la troisième heure du jour. |
| German | Denn diese sind nicht trunken, wie ihr wähnet, sintemal es ist die dritte Stunde am Tage; |
| Haitian Creole | Moun sa yo pa sou jan nou kwè a. Se nevè dimaten li ye sèlman. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang-orang ini tidak mabuk, seperti yang kalian sangka; sebab sekarang baru pukul sembilan pagi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena sekaliannya ini bukannya mabuk seperti sangkamu, sebab baharu pukul sembilan pagi; |
| Italian | Questi uomini non sono ubriachi come voi sospettate, essendo appena le nove del mattino. |
| Maori | Kahore hoki o enei haurangi me ta koutou e whakaaro nei, ko te toru noa hoki tenei o nga haora o te ra; |
| Norwegian | For disse er ikke drukne, således som I mener; det er jo bare den tredje time på dagen; |
| Rumanian | Oamenii acewtia nu sknt beyi, cum vq knchipuiyi voi, cqci nu este deckt al treilea ceas din zi. |
| Russian | ПОЙ ОЕ ШСОЩ, ЛБЛ ЧЩ "ХНБЕФЕ, Й'П ФЕ ЕТШ ФТЕФЙК ЮБУ "ОС; |
| Shuar | Ju aishman, nampekarai, Tárumna nu, nampekcharai. Warí, nantu Imiá ishichik takuni. ¿Aisha itiurak? |
| Spanish | Porque éstos no están embriagados, como pensáis, pues es solamente la tercera hora del día. |
| Swahili | Watu hawa hawakulewa kama mnavyodhani; mbona ni saa tatu tu asubuhi? |
| Swedish | Det är icke så som I menen, att dessa äro druckna; det är ju blott tredje timmen på dagen. |
| Uma | Kai' tohe'i-e, uma-kai malangu hewa to ni'uli', apa' ko'ia-hawo tempo ponginua. Lako' jaa sio mepulo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: metisse. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: emesis, misset, smites, stimes, tmeses, tmesis. | |
-2 letters: emits, items, meets, metes, metis, mises, mists, mites, seems, seise, seism, semes, semis, sites, smite, stems, sties, stime, teems, times. | |
-3 letters: emes, emit, eses, isms, item, meet, mess, mete, mise, miss, mist, mite, seem, sees, seis, seme, semi, sets, sims, site, sits, smit, stem, teem, tees. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: itemises, meshiest, messiest, metisses, mismeets, missteer, seamiest, septimes, timeless, trisemes. | |
+2 letters: amnesties, bimesters, demitasse, disesteem, emptiness, epistomes, erethisms, estimates, homesites, immensest, impetuses, majesties, masteries, measliest, meatiness, meristems, mesmerist, mesquites, mestinoes, mestizoes, metalises, misenters, misesteem, misevents, misseated, missteers, modesties, monetises, mysteries, pipestems, rimesters, sediments, seedtimes, seemliest, semisweet, semitones, smeariest, smectites, smelliest, sometimes, steamiest, stemmiest, systemize, tsimmeses, tzimmeses. | |
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