What's the difference between gasket and seal?

Gasket


Definition:

  • (n.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
  • (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
  • (n.) Any ring or washer of packing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
  • (2) Hyperchlorination, raising hot water temperatures to greater than 55 degrees C, and replacing rubber gaskets are useful methods for controlling outbreaks of legionellosis traced to potable water systems but are not yet justified as routine preventative methods in the absence of such an outbreak.
  • (3) The chamber consists of two glass microscope slides suitably prepared for cell growth and a gasket of silicone rubber.
  • (4) The size of the power device is 1 cm3; it may be inserted into the injector, which then does not need a gasket any more.
  • (5) For a variety of baby foods there was no significant difference in ESBO levels between foods packaged in glass jars with PVC gaskets and foods in cans containing ESBO in the can lacquer.
  • (6) The use of plastic or Parafilm gaskets for dry mounting was developed to facilitate the handling and examination of the stained cover slip preparations.
  • (7) The total efficiency could be up to 25 percent by improving the gasket to reduce the frictional force.
  • (8) The LCM uses a carbonated antacid tablet, a plastic bag with tap water, a candle, and a wide-mouthed glass jar provided with a tight-fitting metallic screw cap and a rubber gasket.
  • (9) Investigations carried out in a period in which rigors were particularly common showed the source of bacteria to be parts of the gasket system of the Kiil dialyser, areas that are inaccessible to disinfectants.
  • (10) Because the several components of syringes, (such as barrels, gasket seals, etc.)
  • (11) It has been determined that the deodorant capacity of the above gaskets is more than two times higher than that of its "washer filter" analog manufactured by the foreign "Coloplast" company.
  • (12) The specimen rod is supported on two rubber gaskets for vibration isolation, and motorized precision micrometers with encoder readouts for position monitoring drive the motions.
  • (13) Solutions were straightforward, involving gasket changes and o-ring resizing.
  • (14) Therefore rubber D-51A can be recommended to be used as pump gaskets.
  • (15) Previous studies have indicated that leaching of organic materials from rubber gaskets may have cytotoxic effects.
  • (16) Within 2 d, fully confluent monolayers form, and ZO-1 localizes in a continuous gasket-like fashion circumscribing all cells.
  • (17) If you loved the late-1990s PC version and would blow a gasket at its conversion into a Zynga-style game with in-app purchases, avoid this remake.
  • (18) Several studies on potential migrants from packaging materials, such as heat-seal adhesives, amber polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers, and rubber gaskets of aerosol valves, are presented to show that commonly encountered questions with regard to packaging materials used during product stability studies can also be answered in the same way.
  • (19) During August 1987, a large and concentrated infestation of Aedes albopictus was discovered on the property of a tire recapper and gasket manufacturer in Chicago, IL, in a densely populated urban environment.
  • (20) It was shown that the fractal dimensions measured by using the image analyzers for three curves (straight line, Koch curve, and Sierpinski gasket) were deviated by less than 2.1% from the theoretical dimension.

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.