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July 22, 2008

Seamless

seamless (adjective) - without breaks, gaps, problems, or interruptions, continues without stopping

a seamless transition
drift from one activity to another with seamless ease
a seamless transition from one to the next

a seamless effect
the effect was seamless, didn't even notice they were acting

provide seamless service from the guest's arrival to their departure

the products work together more seamlessly and easier to work with
the long, black seamless garment in which they were covered from scalp to toe

music that was a seamless blend of records, tapes, and live performance

a seamless web
the finely woven (and seamless) web of human relationships
seamless web of uniform warp and weft
producing as if without effort, a memoranda of seamless cohesion and judiciousness

a seamless flow
seamless trading on the exchange facilitated by a computer network

seamless and effortless
seamless and painless
a seamless continuum

seamless integration of software systems
the software features seamless integration with other vendors
integration of the two software systems is to be made more seamless over the coming year

make almost seamless composites of existing photographs

Example sentences:


* While Escada's founder, Wolfgang Ley is proud to boast of the seamless transition from one designer to the next, the fashion world might have preferred to see Mr Stolzenburg challenge some preconceptions of this label by offering something fresh and new.

* Of course, if an actor is doing his/her work well, you will have to work really hard to notice that they are actually acting, for the effect will be seamless.

* The venue is transformed with lights and effects, the stage is shared by DJs Sticker and Mixmaster Morris, by rappers, MCs and live keyboards in a seamless blend of records, tapes, samples and live performance.

* In theory, Government should be a seamless web where an incoming administration of whatever persuasion is presented with a smoothly-running machine ready to obey its command.

* Such systems fundamentally imply that many teachers should deliberately restrict their level of engagement with children and that the finely woven (and seamless) web of human relationships can be rationalised, divided, timetabled and generally routinised to such an extent that it can be systemised (or bureaucratised)!

* The boundaries are woven into social life in uneven texture, they are not a seamless web of uniform warp and weft.

* Oracular, industrious, and capable of producing as if without effort memoranda of seamless cohesion and judiciousness, Hailey was the Indian civil servant of legendary grasp and authority.

* A vacuum cleaner nozzle was inserted into a hole in the lining and all the wrinkles were sucked out of the material to leave a completely smooth, seamless finish.

* Typical on-site installation of a continuous aluminium seamless gutter system poses no inconvenience to the building owner

* Burton was in his Valhalla: a company largely of men, a chosen few, who could endure ancient and god-like debauches, sing old songs, recite the enduring poetry of the race spin yarns which threaded together truth and fiction in a seamless flow of talk, while outside there was world war and the danger of war to which they were all headed and of which they were all unafraid.

* Consequently the company is touting it as the first hub to support seamless migration from direct-attached to Token Ring-attached devices.

* AT&T Co is chasing after British Telecommunications Plc and its Syncordia Corp initiative at breakneck speed with its WorldSource seamless telecommunications service for multinationals and its WorldPartners Association of supporting phone companies (CI No 2,176).

* The new software features seamless integration with NetWare.

* Its products are more seamless and easier to work with because its compilers and operating system are factored into the design.

* SQL Bridge is designed to provide seamless integration of Microsoft and Sybase Inc SQL Server applications, databases and gateways, independent of operating systems and network protocols.

* The paper quotes Microsoft officials saying that the 130 to 140 developers working on it are trying to develop an operating system that will provide a consistent means of accessing information with seamless integration of everyday tasks.

* Further, that integration is to be made more seamless over the coming year when IBM will begin merging OS/2 and AIX, enabling them to use the same database and share application development tools.

* It is now possible to combine many photos into one photo and make almost seamless composites of existing photographs.

* The size of the compulsory core of a discipline might tell us something about the strength of its identity, and the extent to which it constitutes an organic whole or, to use a common expression, a seamless web.

* The music video is an advert turned into product: pop is now culture in the situationist sense, with its own past, its own references, even its own marketing, as part of a seamless package.

* Why does this seamless care merely seem careless?

* Two speakers told a conference a dangerous gap exists between nursing and social care and that the provision of a seamless service between health and social care is still eluding most authorities.

* While this distinction exists, the ability of health and social services to provide seamless care in residential homes will be severely curtailed.

* When professionals who work in mental health services talk of an `;integrated, comprehensive, seamless service'; they mean a service where acute hospital beds, hostels, group homes, community teams and services for people in their own homes, are all managed as one service with one team of people who have total responsibility.

* Seamless service provides all the elements which one individual requires.

* He banned many of their rites and their passion plays and he forbade women to wear in public the cahdor, the long, black seamless garment in which they were covered from scalp to toe.

* If the individual is to receive a seamless service, effective co-operation at local level is essential to ensure that the frail and vulnerable receive help from suitable services and health authorities, with the assistance of housing authorities.

* Seamless carpet borders individually woven to surround pillars is one of the features which contribute to the outstanding quality of the interior in the Westerwood Hotel and Country Club, Cumbernauld.

* Learning in the primary school is seamless and activities in history will merge naturally into work in art, technology, drama, and so on.

* There are no rough edges: the three men and three women drift from solo to duet to ensemble with seamless ease.


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