Seal vs. Calf

Sealnoun

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

Sealnoun

(heraldry) A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus.

Sealnoun

A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.

Sealnoun

An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.

Sealnoun

A design or insignia usually associated with an organization or an official role.

Sealnoun

Anything that secures or authenticates.

Sealnoun

Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.

Sealnoun

Confirmation or an indication of confirmation.

Sealnoun

Something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint.

Sealnoun

A tight closure, secure against leakage.

Sealnoun

A chakra.

Sealverb

(intransitive) To hunt seals.

Sealverb

(transitive) To place a seal on (a document).

Sealverb

To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.

Sealverb

(transitive) To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.

Sealverb

(transitive) To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).

Sealverb

(transitive) To close securely to prevent leakage.

Sealverb

(transitive) To place in a sealed container.

Sealverb

To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.

Sealverb

(transitive) To guarantee.

Sealverb

To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement or plaster, etc.

Sealverb

To close by means of a seal.

Sealverb

(Mormonism) To confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.

Sealverb

(dialectal) To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.

Sealnoun

Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidæ and Otariidæ.

Sealnoun

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.

Sealnoun

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.

Sealnoun

That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.

Sealnoun

That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.

Sealnoun

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.

Sealverb

To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.

Sealverb

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.

Sealverb

To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.

Sealverb

Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.

Sealverb

To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.

Sealverb

To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.

Sealverb

Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.

Sealverb

To affix one's seal, or a seal.

Sealnoun

fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters

Sealnoun

a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents

Sealnoun

the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal;

Sealnoun

a member of a Naval Special Warfare unit who is trained for unconventional warfare;

Sealnoun

a stamp affixed to a document (as to attest to its authenticity or to seal it);

Sealnoun

an indication of approved or superior status

Sealnoun

a finishing coat applied to exclude moisture

Sealnoun

fastener that provides a tight and perfect closure

Sealnoun

any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions

Sealverb

close with or as if with a seal;

Sealverb

make tight; secure against leakage;

Sealverb

decide irrevocably;

Sealverb

affix a seal to;

Sealverb

cover with varnish

Sealverb

hunt seals

Calfnoun

A young cow or bull.

Calfnoun

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

Calfnoun

A young elephant, seal or whale also used of some other animals.

Calfnoun

A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.

Calfnoun

A small island, near a larger island.

Calfnoun

A cabless railroad engine.

Calfnoun

An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

Calfnoun

(anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.

Calfnoun

The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

Calfnoun

The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

Calfnoun

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

Calfnoun

An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

Calfnoun

A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.

Calfnoun

A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.

Calfnoun

The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.

Calfnoun

young of domestic cattle

Calfnoun

the muscular back part of the shank

Calfnoun

fine leather from the skin of a calf

Calfnoun

young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo

Calf

A calf (plural calves) is a young domestic cow or bull. Calves are reared to become adult cattle or are slaughtered for their meat, called veal, and hide.