Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
2. (intransitive) To hunt seals.
3. A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.
4. An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.
5. A facsimile of an impression of such stamp that is a mark or symbol of an office or organisation.
6. Anything that secures or authenticates.
7. Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.
8. (figurative) Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.

Example Sentences

The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled.

They're organizing a protest against sealing.

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

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.

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

Seals were placed on the papal apartment on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace and on the apartment on the second floor of the Casa Santa Marta, where Pope Francis lived.

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

Word Forms

• seals
• sealing
• sealed

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Use seal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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