seal

The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled.

A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.

→ Punjabi: ਸੀਲ (sīl)

→ Sotho: sili

→ Swahili: sili

From Middle English sele, from an inflectional form of Old English seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz (compare Scots selch,selkie, North Frisian selich, Middle Dutch seel, zēle, Old High German selah, Danish sæl, Middle Low German sale), either from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”) (compare dialectal English sullow (“plough”)) or from early Proto-Finnic *šülkeš (later *hülgeh, compare dialectal Finnish hylki, standard hylje, Estonian hüljes).


seal

They're organizing a protest against sealing.

en-verb

seal (third-person singular simple present seals, present participle sealing, simple past and past participle sealed)

seals (present singular third-person)
sealing (participle present)
sealed (participle past)
sealed (past)


seal

She [Nature] carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby
Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 11”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.

An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.

The front of the podium bore the presidential seal.

So the matter rested until the Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Company was incorporated on August 8, 1877, appropriately displaying a bunch of hops on its seal, for these had become the principal cash crop in the area.

1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:

A design or insignia usually associated with an organization or an official role.

The result was declared invalid, as the seal on the meter had been broken.

Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.

Her clothes always had her mom's seal of approval.

(figurative) Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.

The canister is leaking. I think the main seal needs to be replaced.

Something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint.

Close the lid tightly to get a good seal.

A tight closure, secure against leakage.

→ Scottish Gaelic: seula

خَتْم

design or insignia associated with organization or official role

пло́мба

something which will be visibly damaged when a covering or container is opened

From Middle English sele, from Anglo-Norman sëel, from Latin sigillum, a diminutive of signum (“sign”).
Doublet of sigil and sigillum.


seal

(transitive) To place a seal on (a document).

to seal weights and measures

to seal silverware

To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.

The cover is sealed. If anyone tries to open it, we'll know about it.

(transitive) To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.

The border has been sealed until the fugitives are found.

(transitive) To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).

I've sealed the bottle to keep the contents fresh.

Seal up your lips, and give no words but "mum".

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

(transitive) To close securely to prevent leakage.

I've sealed the documents in this envelope.

(transitive) To place in a sealed container.

After thinking for half an hour, the champion sealed his move.

(transitive, chess) To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.

The last-minute goal sealed United’s win.

seal one's destiny

seal someone's fate

seal the job

England's first-half display contained much to admire but it was a sign of their wastefulness in front of goal that it took the injury-time intervention from Kane to seal victory.

2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2019-04-21:

Sealed to this wall by their rims were cazuelas ( earthenware bowls).

1898, The American Archaeologist, page 267:

After testing is concluded and it has been determined that the drilled well is to be completed as a producing or fluid-injection well, or that operations are to be suspended, the final string of casing is placed in the well and sealed to the penetrated formation with cement.

1971, Environmental Conservation, the Oil and Gas Industries, page 127:

The PVC was then sealed to the plastered foundation with a 3-inch-wide band of PVC-to-concrete adhesive applied above the Thiokol.

1974, Ruins Stabilization in the Southwestern United States, page 40:

The blowing device consists of a glass vessel with a hollow perforated cylinder sealed to its base, and two side tubes sealed at opposite ends of the vessel.

1974, Egyptian Journal of Physics - Volumes 5-6, page 2:

To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement or plaster, etc.

to seal a drainpipe with water

When the silicone rubber has set the plaster pieces are replaced, followed by the lid, which is sealed to the mother-mould with plaster and bandage as previously described.

2008, Sandra Davison, R.G. Newton, Conservation and Restoration of Glass, page 301:

In temples of God, families are eternally sealed through this power. Couples who enter into the Covenant of Eternal Marriage are sealed together, meaning that their union on earth is also valid in the heavens, rather than ending at death. Children who are subsequently born to them or later sealed to them are theirs for eternity… In addition, temple sealings are performed by proxy for the dead, with spouses sealed to each other and children sealed to parents.

2010, Christopher Kimball Bigelow, Jonathan Langford, The Latter-day Saint Family Encyclopedia, page 306:

If a man once married desires a second helpmate […] she is sealed to him under the solemn sanction of the church.

1852, Howard Stansbury, An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah:

She can be sealed to this other man and still remain with her first husband; and the Mormons believe that all her children will belong to the man to whom she is sealed.

1870, Aaron Harrison Cragin, Execution of Laws in Utah, page 9:

Next, I was sealed to my fourteenth wife, Emeline Vaughn. In 1851, I was sealed to my fifteenth wife, Mary Lear Groves. In 1856, I was sealed to my sixteenth wife, Mary Ann Williams.

2001, Richard W. Slatta, The Mythical West, page 197:

(Mormonism) To bind eternally as family members.

What was that office, or work, to which his Father sealed him? I answer, more generally, he was sealed to the whole work of mediation for us, thereby to recover and save all the elect, whom the Father had given him:

1836, John Flavel, The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671, page 44:

Perfectly so, I tell thee, of the sealed people who have come in through unbelief, pretending themselves to be children of the kingdom, that they are sealed to be heirs of the promise, but have come in as thieves and robbers.

1861, Joanna Southcott, Lavinia Elizabeth C. Jones, The scriptures of the holy Trinity, page 88:

Let us all strive to get ourselves sealed to redemption, seeing God doth seal those whom he will deliver in that great day; if we be not in this number, we shall not escape damnation.

1866, Paul Baynes, An Entire Commentary Upon the Whole Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians, page 81:

Thus these representatives of humanity are first sealed to help with the final work of salvation.

2015, Uchenna Mezue, Hidden In Plain Sight: A Study of the Revelation to John:

(Christianity) To form a sacred commitment.

Seal the meat and continue frying until nicely browned.

1993, Daran Little, Life and Times at the Rovers Return, page 113:

(cooking, transitive) To fry (meat) at a high temperature to retain the juices.

կնքել

to fasten (something) closed so that it cannot be opened without visible damage

封锁

to prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something)

sinetöidä

chess: to place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope


seal

(dialectal) To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.

From Middle English *selen (suggested by Middle English sele (“harness; hame”)), perhaps from Old English sǣlan (“to bind”).


seal

there (indicating location: in or at that place)

Superessive of see (“this, it”). Akin to Finnish siellä and Ingrian seel.


seal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


seal

turn (chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others)

head

seal m (genitive singular seala, nominative plural sealanna)

seala (genitive singular)
sealanna (nominative plural)
seal (indefinite nominative singular)
sealanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a sheal (indefinite singular vocative)
a shealanna (indefinite plural vocative)
seala (genitive indefinite singular)
sealanna (genitive indefinite plural)
seal (dative indefinite singular)
sealanna (dative indefinite plural)
an seal (definite nominative singular)
na sealanna (definite nominative plural)
an tseala (definite genitive singular)
na sealanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an seal (dative definite singular)
don seal (dative definite singular)
leis na sealanna (dative definite plural)
seal
sheal
tseal

From Old Irish sel, from Proto-Celtic *swelos (“turn”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”).


seal

seal n (plural sealen, diminutive sealtsje)

From Old Frisian sāl, from Proto-West Germanic *sadul.


seal

seal c or n (plural sealen, diminutive sealtsje)

From Old Frisian *sele, from Proto-West Germanic *sali.