Seal vs. Sill
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
Sillnoun
(architecture) (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
Sillnoun
(construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.
Sillnoun
(geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.
Sillnoun
A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
Sillnoun
(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
Sillnoun
The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
Sillnoun
(UK) A young herring.
Sillnoun
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
Sillnoun
The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
Sillnoun
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
Sillnoun
A young herring.
Sillnoun
structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure
Sillnoun
(geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock
