What's the difference between enseal and seal?

Enseal


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify.

Example Sentences:

Seal


Definition:

  • (n.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.
  • (n.) That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.
  • (v. t.) To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.
  • (v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
  • (v. i.) To affix one's seal, or a seal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To provide a seal with low pressure-high volume cuffed tubes, cuff sizes of 20.5 mm and 27.5 mm are recommended for female and male patients, respectively.
  • (2) Cermet cement sealings showed defects more frequently.
  • (3) The channels usually ceased conducting within a few minutes after seal formation with the patch pipette and could not be re-activated with depolarizing voltage steps.
  • (4) For all the understandable insistence that parliament and London would continue as normal after Wednesday’s terrorist attack, almost 24 hours later a large section of streets around the area remained sealed off by police.
  • (5) Tone pulses and noise stimuli were mixed acoustically and presented using calibrated, sealed stimulating systems.
  • (6) In general, after recording a baseline tympanogram, mechanically created positive and negative air pressures are created in a hermetically sealed ear canal causing increased pressure on the middle ear air cushion.
  • (7) Ecological evidence is considered to suggest that the rapid maturation of C. semerme in rats may also occur when the parasite becomes established in seals.
  • (8) Increased conversion of 25-OHD to 24,25-(OH)2D and a high capacity for vitamin D storage in their large blubber mass appeared to be factors in the resistance of seals to vitamin D toxicity.
  • (9) The mechanism of sealed-off perforation of the duct is discussed.
  • (10) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
  • (11) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
  • (12) The results demonstrated that, when the coronal half of the root canal filling material was removed immediately after placement with pluggers, there was a loss of the apical seal and leakage in thirteen of twenty teeth.
  • (13) Ultrastructural study of the Leydig cells of nonbreeding crabeater, leopard and Ross seals showed that three types of cells could be distinguished.
  • (14) National bans on commercial trading in seal products are already in place in 30 countries including the US, the Netherlands and Italy.
  • (15) Under these conditions, with careful attention to sealing at ankles and waist, it was possible to estimate penetration as low as 0.3%.
  • (16) We used transvitreally delivered cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive to seal retinal breaks in 25 selected patients undergoing vitreous surgery for complicated retinal detachment.
  • (17) To date, numerous products have been evaluated, and many hundreds have received the council's seal of acceptance.
  • (18) She explained that, as a baby, she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM): her clitoris cut off and her vagina sealed, with only a small hole remaining for urine and menstruation.
  • (19) After accidental dissection of the thoracic duct in infants, leakage of chyle could be sealed successfully in 6 cases.
  • (20) These microcapsules can be dried and retain activity when sealed in a jar at 4 degrees C.

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