(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.
Sean
Definition:
(n.) A seine. See Seine.
Example Sentences:
(1) My colleague Sean Farrell reported last night that the Scottish government had been looking for a buyer for the site .
(2) "The performance of Italy and France kind of puts Ireland's heroic non-qualification in context," suggests Sean DeLoughry, giving everyone pause for thought.
(3) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
(4) SJ Burnley Ins Michael Keane (Man Utd, £2m) Outs None Sean Dyche’s aim was to retain Danny Ings at all costs and secure more Premier League experience.
(5) 1.25pm: Hello again from Sean Ingle from Johannesburg.
(6) An officer with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police, Sean Collier, 26, was identified as the victim of a shooting at the university amid a manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects.
(7) Margaret Finch and Sean Mcloughlin Directors, TRP solicitors, Birmingham
(8) Labor party top 10 The Labor party benefited from a $150,000 donation from tech entrepreneur Sean Tomlinson.
(9) In that speech, Wright suggested that Manning was “overwhelmed” that the Sean MacBride award had recognized “her actions as actions for peace.” Yet the former soldier insists that she has never perceived her actions in transmitting more than 700,000 classified US classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010-11 as an act for peace.
(10) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
(11) Should such negotiations founder, Burnley’s Sean Dyche also has his admirers in the Stadium of Light’s boardroom.
(12) He absolutely can win,” says Sean Lavelle, who has brought a battered American flag bandanna and two T-shirts to the party.
(13) During the hearing, Gutiérrez was cross-examined by the football club’s lawyer, Sean Jones, who alleged that he was “just in it for the money”.
(14) The 16 people named in the charges are: Patricia Quinn; Sean Quinn Junior; Collete Marie Quinn; Aoife Quinn; Brenda Quinn; Ciara Quinn; Paddy McKillen; Séamus Ross; Brian O'Farrell; John McCabe; Gerard Maguire; Patrick Kearney; Gerard Conlon; Gerard Gannon; Seán Reilly and Joseph O'Reilly.
(15) "They found Sean's body and pulled it out but he was no longer responsive.
(16) Sean Ingle Wimbledon No one has broken Roger Federer’s serve at these championships, let alone taken a set, and the appreciative midsummer murmurs from No1 Court as the seven-times Wimbledon champion elegantly dissected Tommy Robredo suggested they believe he retains the game to win a record eighth title.
(17) In Virginia, County Cavan, on Monday a forklift truck in the town's main street held up a giant poster saying: "Welcome home, Sean Quinn."
(18) This is the most pathetic thing I’ve seen in my whole time in the United States Senate … I think they ought to stop posturing and acting like idiots.” Sean Spicer , the White House press secretary, branded the Democrats’ actions “embarrassing”.
(19) Finally, Guardian sports reporter turned ace observationalist Josh Widdicombe has the ability to find the sparkle in the mundane that puts him in line to become the next Sean Lock.
(20) Photograph: Guardian The US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that its civil rights division and the FBI would review the case for potential federal charges against Sean Williams, the police officer who shot Crawford in the Beavercreek store on the evening of 5 August.