seal

About 11.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled.

2. verb To hunt seals.

   They're organizing a protest against sealing.

3. noun A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.
4. noun An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.
5. noun A facsimile of an impression of such stamp that is a mark or symbol of an office or organisation.

   The front of the podium bore the presidential seal.

6. noun Anything that secures or authenticates.
7. noun Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.

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

8. noun Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.

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

Similar words

sealskin varnish stamp seal off sealing wax cachet seal of approval pinniped steller lion

Often followed by

of the and is to on was in with

Word family

SEAL sealed sealing seals