Seal
[siːl] or [sil]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions.
(noun.) a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents.
(noun.) fastener that provides a tight and perfect closure.
(noun.) a finishing coat applied to exclude moisture.
(noun.) a stamp affixed to a document (as to attest to its authenticity or to seal it); 'the warrant bore the sheriff's seal'.
(noun.) the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal; 'a coat of seal'.
(verb.) decide irrevocably; 'sealing dooms'.
(verb.) hunt seals.
(verb.) close with or as if with a seal; 'She sealed the letter with hot wax'.
(verb.) make tight; secure against leakage; 'seal the windows'.
(verb.) affix a seal to; 'seal the letter'.
編輯:陌莉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
比琳达手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Stamp.[2]. Attestation, authentication, confirmation.
v. a. [1]. Close, fasten, secure.[2]. Confirm, ratify, authenticate, attest.
哈维整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Close, fasten, confirm, sanction, ratify
ANT:Unseal, unclose, open, annul, cancel, abrogate, disratify, disaffirm,contravene
校對:凯尔西
解釋/意思:
n. an engraved stamp for impressing the wax which closes a letter &c.: the wax or other substance so impressed: that which makes fast or secure: that which authenticates or ratifies: assurance: the water left standing in the trap of a drain or sewer preventing the upward flow of gas: the sigil or signature of a plant &c. in medieval medicine: the sign of the cross baptism confirmation the ineffaceable character supposed to be left on the soul by some sacraments.—v.t. to fasten with a seal: to set a seal to: to mark with a stamp: to make fast: to confirm: to keep secure: to close the chinks of: to secure against an escape of air or gas by means of a dip-pipe: to accept: to sign with the cross to baptise or confirm.—adj. Sealed certified by a seal: inaccessible.—ns. Seal′-engrav′ing the art of engraving seals; Seal′er one who seals: an inspector of stamps; Seal′ing confirmation by a seal; Seal′ing-day (Shak.) a day for sealing anything; Seal′ing-wax wax for sealing letters &c.—also Seal′-wax; Seal′-pipe a dip-pipe; Seal′-press a stamp bearing dies for embossing any device upon paper or lead; Seal′-ring (Shak.) a signet-ring; Seal′-wort Solomon's seal.—Seal of the fisherman the papal privy seal impressed on wax representing St Peter fishing.—Great seal the state seal of the United Kingdom; Leaden seal a disc of lead pierced with two holes through which are passed the ends of a twisted wire; Privy Seal the seal appended to grants and in Scotland authenticating royal grants of personal rights; Set one's seal to to give one's authority or assent to; Under seal authenticated.
n. the name commonly applied to all the Pinnipedia except the morse or walrus—carnivorous mammals adapted to a marine existence; the two great families are Phocid (without external ears) and Otariid (having distinct though small external ears): (her.) a bearing representing a creature something like a walrus.—v.t. to hunt seals.—ns. Seal′-bird the slender-billed shear-water; Seal′er a man or a ship engaged in the seal-fishery; Seal′ery a seal-fishing station: seal-fishery; Seal′-flow′er the bleeding heart; Seal′ing Seal′-fish′ing the act of catching seals; Seal′-rock′ery a place where many seals breed; Seal′skin the prepared fur of the fur-seal used for women's jackets a garment made of this.—Sealskin cloth a cloth made of mohair with a nap and dyed to resemble the fur of the seal.
科琳錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that you see seals, denotes that you are striving for a place above your power to maintain. Dreams of seals usually show that the dreamer has high aspirations and discontent will harass him into struggles to advance his position.
伊内兹手打
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authenticity and authority. Sometimes it is stamped upon wax and attached to the paper sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing in this sense is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers mostly of a sacerdotal character validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices frequently initial letters of words to conjure with; and in many instances these are attached in the same way that seals are appended now. As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful. Our word 'sincere ' is derived from sine cero without wax but the learned are not in agreement as to whether this refers to the absence of the cabalistic signs or to that of the wax with which letters were formerly closed from public scrutiny. Either view of the matter will serve one in immediate need of an hypothesis. The initials L.S. commonly appended to signatures of legal documents mean locum sigillis the place of the seal although the seal is no longer used —an admirable example of conservatism distinguishing Man from the beasts that perish. The words locum sigillis are humbly suggested as a suitable motto for the Pribyloff Islands whenever they shall take their place as a sovereign State of the American Union.
杰夫編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- It was a beautiful letter, highly scented, on a pink paper, and with a light green seal. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The last name was written in pencil, and Amy explained that he was to rewrite it in ink and seal it up for her properly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- If I don't hear from you before the time you mention, I will break the seal when the clock strikes. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was incorporated, in pursuance of an act of parliament, by a charter under the great seal, dated the 27th of July 1694. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The die is the same as the porochial seal--the Good Samaritan healing the sick and bruised man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The only circumstance in connection with them that at all struck me was that the seal lay tidily in the tray with the pencils and the wax. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I hastily broke open the plain wafer seal, and found a two hundred pound bank-note, merely enclosed in a blank cover. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Books with their wealth of entertainment and information would be sealed to a large part of mankind, if glasses did not assist weak eyes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- She knew them, they were finished, sealed and stamped and finished with, for her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He was willing to be sealed thus in the underworld, like a soul damned but living forever in damnation. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Reliant on Night, confiding in Solitude, I kept my tears sealed, my sobs chained, no longer; they heaved my heart; they tore their way. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit's fate. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- But as he sat gloating over me, I was supported by a scornful detestation of him that sealed my lips. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Then he sealed it and addressed it to Captain James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He is sad; silence seals his mind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- At last, he said, There was an old gentleman, with thick eyebrows, and a broad hat, and large chain and seals. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Signed with our hands and seals. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- At this minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- When those packets were sealed up, Jonas Oldacre got McFarlane to secure one of the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft wax. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We will see seals in Suderoe, and, doubtless, mermaids in Stromoe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But seals would not find on oceanic islands the conditions favourable to their gradual reconversion into a terrestrial form. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Thus the pass will be closed up, sealing the pirates up in the crater, so if the volcano does burst out, they will be blown to pieces. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- A device for sealing together the inside part and bulb of an incandescent lamp mechanically. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They have sealing-wax on it, he said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- A hopeful family yours, Mr. Trotter,' said Perker, sealing a letter which he had just finished writing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Before 1641 a true thermometer was constructed by sealing the top of the tube after driving out the air b y heat. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live--to die; I have at last my nameless bliss. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It was one of those small sealing-wax knives to be found on old-fashioned writing-tables, with an ivory handle and a stiff blade. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
校對:朗达