Definitions for seal

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seal seal

Spelling: [seel]

IPA: /sil/

Seal is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in seal (aels).

Definitions for seal

noun

1. an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
2. a stamp, medallion, ring, etc., engraved with such a device, for impressing paper, wax, lead, or the like:
3. the impression so obtained:
4. a mark or symbol attached to a legal document and imparting a formal character to it, originally wax with an impression.
5. a piece of wax or similar adhesive substance so attached to an envelope, folded document, etc., that it must be broken when the object is opened, insuring that the contents have not been tampered with or altered.
6. anything that tightly or completely closes or secures a thing, as closures or fastenings for doors and railroad cars, adhesive stamps and tapes used to secure the flap of an envelope, etc.
7. something that keeps a thing secret:
8. a decorative stamp, especially as given to contributors to a charitable fund:
9. a mark, sign, symbol, or the like, serving as visible evidence of something.
10. anything that serves as assurance, confirmation, or bond:
11. Plumbing. a small amount of water held by a trap to exclude foul gases from a sewer or the like. the depth of the part of the water that actually excludes the gases.
12. the seals, British. the tokens or signs of public office.
13. any of numerous marine carnivores of the suborder Pinnipedia, including the eared or fur seals, as the sea lion, and the earless or hair seals, as the harbor seal.
14. the skin of such an animal.
15. leather made from this skin.
16. the fur of the fur seal; sealskin.
17. a fur used as a substitute for sealskin.
18. a dark, gray brown.
19. a member of the U.S. Navy’s special operations forces.

Idioms

1. set one's seal to, to give one's approval to; authorize; endorse:

Verb phrases

1. seal off, to close hermetically: to block (an entrance, area, etc.) completely so as to prevent escape or entrance:

verb (used with object)

1. to affix a seal to in authorization, testimony, etc.
2. to assure, confirm, or bind with or as if with a seal:
3. to impress a seal upon as evidence of legal or standard exactness, measure, quality, etc.
4. to close by any form of fastening that must be broken before access can be gained.
5. to fasten or close tightly by or as if by a seal:
6. to decide irrevocably:
7. to grant under one's seal or authority, as a pardon.
8. Mormon Church. to make (a marriage or adoption) forever binding; solemnize.
9. Electricity. to bring (a plug and jack or socket) into locked or fully aligned position.
10. seel (def 1).

verb (used without object)

1. to hunt, kill, or capture seals.

Origin of seal

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English seel, seil(e), seale mark on a document, token Old French seel (French sceau) Late Latin *sigellum, Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum

Examples for seal

In fact, George Smith printed a copy of the seal in his book (p. 91).

seal the jars while hot, allow them to cool, and then store.

Just ring for a lighted candle, we will seal up these boxes.

He speaks of her much as he might of his elder son, the seal.

The New York Historical Society plans to seal a new time capsule this week that is more reflective of our current pop culture.

"And because I am a woman I shall set my seal upon you," she said.

Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.

Other deletions are easy to guess, like when they black out the number in “seal Team XXX”

She worked with seal Team Six and retired with the rank of senior chief.

It strives to seal forever the fate of those it has enslaved.