What does seal mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sealing wax, sealnoun

    fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters

  2. seal, stampnoun

    a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents

  3. seal, sealskinnoun

    the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal

    "a coat of seal"

  4. Navy SEAL, SEALnoun

    a member of a Naval Special Warfare unit who is trained for unconventional warfare

    "SEAL is an acronym for Sea Air and Land"

  5. sealnoun

    a stamp affixed to a document (as to attest to its authenticity or to seal it)

    "the warrant bore the sheriff's seal"

  6. cachet, seal, seal of approvalnoun

    an indication of approved or superior status

  7. sealnoun

    a finishing coat applied to exclude moisture

  8. sealnoun

    fastener that provides a tight and perfect closure

  9. sealverb

    any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions

  10. seal, seal offverb

    make tight; secure against leakage

    "seal the windows"

  11. sealverb

    close with or as if with a seal

    "She sealed the letter with hot wax"

  12. sealverb

    decide irrevocably

    "sealing dooms"

  13. sealverb

    affix a seal to

    "seal the letter"

  14. varnish, sealverb

    cover with varnish

  15. sealverb

    hunt seals

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sealnoun

    The seacalf. See Seacalf.

    Etymology: seol, sele , Saxon; seel, Danish

    The seal or soyle is in make and growth not unlike a pig, ugly faced, and footed like a moldwarp: he delighteth in musick, or any loud noise, and thereby is trained to shew himself above water: they also come on land. Carew.

    An island salt and bare,
    The haunt of seals and orcs, and seamaws clang. John Milton.

  2. SEALnoun

    Etymology: sigel , Saxon; sigillum, Latin

    The king commands you
    To render up the great seal. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

    If the organs of perception, like wax overhardened with cold, will not receive the impression of the seal; or, like wax of a temper too soft, will not hold it; or else supposing the wax of a temper fit, but the seal not applied with a sufficient force to make a clear impression: in any of these cases the print left by the seal will be obscure. John Locke.

    The same
    His grandsire wore about his neck
    In three seal rings, which after, melted down,
    Form’d a vast buckle for his widow’s gown. Alexander Pope.

    ’Till thou can’st rail the seal from off my bond,
    Thou but offend’st thy lungs to speak so loud. William Shakespeare.

    Solyman shewed him his own letters, asking him if he knew not that hand, and if he knew not that seal. Richard Knolles.

    He saw his monkey picking the seal wax from a letter. Arb.

    They their fill of love
    Took largely, of their mutual guilt the seal. John Milton.

  3. To Sealverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    He that brings this love to thee.
    Little knows this love in me;
    And by him seal up thy mind. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

    I have seen her rise from her bed, take forth paper, fold it, write upon’t, and afterwards seal it. William Shakespeare.

    God join’d my heart to Romeo’s; thou our hands;
    And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal’d,
    Shall be the label to another deed,
    Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
    Turn to another, this shall slay them both. William Shakespeare.

    My soul is purg’d from grudging hate,
    And with my hand I seal our true hearts love. William Shakespeare, R. III.

    When I have performed this, and sealed to them this fruit, I will come into Spain. Rom. xv. 28.

    Seal up your lips, and give no words, but mum! William Shakespeare.

    At my death
    Thou hast seal’d up my expectation. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    The root of evil is sealed up from you. 2 Esdr. viii. 53.

    The sense is like the sun; for the sun seals up the globe of heaven, and opens the globe of earth: so the sense doth obscure heavenly things, and reveals earthly things. Francis Bacon.

    Back to th’ infernal pit I drag thee chain’d,
    And seal thee so, as henceforth not to scorn
    The facil gates of hell too slightly barr’d. John Milton.

    You’d rail upon the hostess,
    And say you would present her at the leet,
    Because she bought stone jugs, and no seal’d quarts. William Shakespeare.

  4. To Sealverb

    To fix a seal.

    I will seal unto this bond. William Shakespeare.

    We make a sure covenant and write it, and our princes and priests seal unto it. Neh. ix. 38.

Wikipedia

  1. Seal

    The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle, urban, arctic, mountainous, and desert environments. SEALs are typically ordered to capture or to kill high level targets, or to gather intelligence behind enemy lines.All active SEALs are members of the U.S. Navy. The CIA's highly secretive and elite Special Operations Group (SOG) recruits operators from SEAL Teams, with joint operations going back to the MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War. This cooperation still exists today, as evidenced by military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

ChatGPT

  1. seal

    A seal is a marine mammal with a streamlined body and flipper-like limbs adapted for swimming in cold environments. It is also a device or substance that is used to join two things together or make something impervious. Additionally, a seal can refer to an embossed emblem, a figure or symbol impressed on a document to authenticate it or to denote official approval.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sealnoun

    any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae

  2. Sealnoun

    an engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security

  3. Sealnoun

    wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal

  4. Sealnoun

    that which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it

  5. Sealnoun

    that which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance

  6. Sealnoun

    an arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap

  7. Sealverb

    to set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed

  8. Sealverb

    to mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware

  9. Sealverb

    to fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter

  10. Sealverb

    hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret

  11. Sealverb

    to fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like

  12. Sealverb

    to close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5

  13. Sealverb

    among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife

  14. Sealverb

    to affix one's seal, or a seal

  15. Etymology: [OE. selen; cf. OF. seeler, seieler, F. sceller, LL. sigillare. See Seal a stamp.]

Wikidata

  1. SEAL

    In cryptography, SEAL is a very fast stream cipher optimised for machines with a 32-bit word size and plenty of RAM. SEAL is actually a pseudorandom function family in that it can easily generate arbitrary portions of the keystream without having to start from the beginning. This makes it particularly well suited for applications like encrypting hard drives. The first version was published by Phillip Rogaway and Don Coppersmith in 1994. The current version, published in 1997, is 3.0. SEAL, covered by two patents in the United States, both of which are assigned to IBM.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Seal

    sēl, n. an engraved stamp for impressing the wax which closes a letter, &c.: the wax or other substance so impressed: that which makes fast or secure: that which authenticates or ratifies: assurance: the water left standing in the trap of a drain or sewer, preventing the upward flow of gas: the sigil or signature of a plant, &c., in medieval medicine: the sign of the cross, baptism, confirmation, the ineffaceable character supposed to be left on the soul by some sacraments.—v.t. to fasten with a seal: to set a seal to: to mark with a stamp: to make fast: to confirm: to keep secure: to close the chinks of: to secure against an escape of air or gas by means of a dip-pipe: to accept: to sign with the cross, to baptise or confirm.—adj. Sealed, certified by a seal: inaccessible.—ns. Seal′-engrav′ing, the art of engraving seals; Seal′er, one who seals: an inspector of stamps; Seal′ing, confirmation by a seal; Seal′ing-day (Shak.), a day for sealing anything; Seal′ing-wax, wax for sealing letters, &c.—also Seal′-wax; Seal′-pipe, a dip-pipe; Seal′-press, a stamp bearing dies for embossing any device upon paper or lead; Seal′-ring (Shak.), a signet-ring; Seal′-wort, Solomon's seal.—Seal of the fisherman, the papal privy seal impressed on wax, representing St Peter fishing.—Great seal, the state seal of the United Kingdom; Leaden seal, a disc of lead pierced with two holes through which are passed the ends of a twisted wire; Privy Seal, the seal appended to grants, and in Scotland authenticating royal grants of personal rights; Set one's seal to, to give one's authority or assent to; Under seal, authenticated. [O. Fr. seel—L. sigillum, dim. of signum, a mark.]

  2. Seal

    sēl, n. the name commonly applied to all the Pinnipedia except the morse or walrus—carnivorous mammals adapted to a marine existence; the two great families are Phocidæ (without external ears) and Otariidæ (having distinct though small external ears): (her.) a bearing representing a creature something like a walrus.—v.t. to hunt seals.—ns. Seal′-bird, the slender-billed shear-water; Seal′er, a man or a ship engaged in the seal-fishery; Seal′ery, a seal-fishing station: seal-fishery; Seal′-flow′er, the bleeding heart; Seal′ing, Seal′-fish′ing, the act of catching seals; Seal′-rock′ery, a place where many seals breed; Seal′skin, the prepared fur of the fur-seal used for women's jackets, a garment made of this.—Sealskin cloth, a cloth made of mohair with a nap, and dyed to resemble the fur of the seal. [A.S. seolh; Ice. selr, Sw. själ.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. seal

    [from the Anglo-Saxon seolh]. The well-known marine piscivorous animal.

Editors Contribution

  1. seal

    An aquatic animal created in a variety of species.

    Some people love to go seal watching on the coasts of some countries.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 12, 2016  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SEAL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Seal is ranked #3797 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Seal surname appeared 9,316 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Seal.

    91% or 8,481 total occurrences were White.
    2.2% or 210 total occurrences were Black.
    2% or 194 total occurrences were Asian.
    2% or 193 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.6% or 156 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.8% or 82 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'seal' in Nouns Frequency: #2288

  2. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'seal' in Verbs Frequency: #875

Anagrams for seal »

  1. sale

  2. Sale

  3. lase

  4. leas

  5. ales

  6. ELAS

  7. Elsa

  8. slae

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of seal in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of seal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of seal in a Sentence

  1. Evans Revere:

    The need to seal off the borders will have a devastating economic effect on North Korea. Because of international sanctions, Evans Revere pressure, and the absence of any significant aid coming in from the ROK( South Korea.In), North Korea has become even more dependent on China, with the border shut down, Pyongyang is probably panicking right now.

  2. John Hourston:

    To see them wash up on the shore of a sea loch is new to me, we’re increasingly seeing these massive fish and it’s a wonderful sight. Unfortunately, that one is dead, it’s thought to have been predated on by a seal or hit by a boat.

  3. Jonny Kim:

    You don't learn how to be a SEAL in BUD/S. You just learn how to suffer.

  4. Edward Gallagher:

    I put a black eye on the two communities I love the most, the U.S. Marine Corps and the Navy, specifically the SEAL community.

  5. Major Hodges:

    If you go at minimum rations of one meal a day, we were looking at numbers about 1800 meals that we needed to get in there, so, there was not the physical space in the cave to put 1800 meals and that would be 18 separate dive missions. Some of the rescued soccer team members bowing their heads respectfully in front of a sketch of the Thai NavySEAL Facebook Page SEAL diver who died while trying to rescue them. ( Thailand's Ministry of Health and the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital via AP).

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