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ensign
English
Etymology
From Middle English ensigne, from Old French enseigne, from Latin ?nsignia, nominative plural of ?nsigne. Doublet of insignia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.s?n/, IPA(key): /??n.s?n/, /??ns.n?/ IPA(key): /??n.sa?n/
- Rhymes: -?ns?n
Noun
ensign (plural ensigns)
- A badge of office, rank, or power.
- The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.
- A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour.
- Synonym: ancient
- (nautical) The principal flag or banner flown by a ship (usually at the stern) to indicate nationality.
- Any prominent flag or banner.
- 1667?, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced.
- 1667?, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- (historical) A junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:badge
(junior commissioned officer):
- coronet (cavalry equivalent of the infantry ensign)
- second lieutenant (OF-1), first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officer
Derived terms
- ensign first class
- red ensign
Translations
Verb
ensign (third-person singular simple present ensigns, present participle ensigning, simple past and past participle ensigned)
- (obsolete) To designate as by an ensign.
- To distinguish by a mark or ornament.
- (heraldry) To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.
- Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
Anagrams
- engins, genins
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seal
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?l, IPA(key): /si?l/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Homophones: SEAL, ceil
Etymology 1
From Middle English sele, from an inflectional form of Old English seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz (compare North Frisian selich, Middle Dutch seel, z?le, Old High German selah, Danish sæl, Middle Low German sale), either from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”) (compare dialectal English sullow (“plough”)) or from early Proto-Finnic *šülkeš (later *hülgeh, compare dialectal Finnish hylki, standard hylje, Estonian hüljes).
Noun
seal (plural seals)
- A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:pinniped
Derived terms
Related terms
- vent
Descendants
- ? Sotho: sili
- ? Swahili: sili
Translations
Verb
seal (third-person singular simple present seals, present participle sealing, simple past and past participle sealed)
- (intransitive) To hunt seals.
Translations
See also
- clapmatch
- dolphin
- sea lion
- selkie
- walrus
Further reading
- Pinniped on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English sele, from Anglo-Norman sëel, from Latin sigillum, a diminutive of signum (“sign”)
Doublet of sigil and sigillum.
Noun
seal (plural seals)
- A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 11:
- She [Nature] carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby
- Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 11:
- An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.
- A design or insignia usually associated with an organization or an official role.
- Anything that secures or authenticates.
- Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.
- (figuratively) Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.
- Something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint.
- A tight closure, secure against leakage.
- A chakra. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Scottish Gaelic: seula
Translations
Verb
seal (third-person singular simple present seals, present participle sealing, simple past and past participle sealed)
- (transitive) To place a seal on (a document).
- To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.
- (transitive) To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.
- (transitive) To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).
- Synonyms: block, block off, close, close off, obstruct, seal off
- (transitive) To close securely to prevent leakage.
- (transitive) To place in a sealed container.
- Synonym: enclose
- (transitive, chess) To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.
- (transitive) To guarantee.
- To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement or plaster, etc.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
- To close by means of a seal.
- (Mormonism) To confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- stamp
Further reading
- Seal (device) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 3
From Middle English *selen (suggested by Middle English sele (“harness; hame”)), perhaps from Old English s?lan (“to bind”).
Verb
seal (third-person singular simple present seals, present participle sealing, simple past and past participle sealed)
- (dialectal) To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
Anagrams
- ASLE, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, Sale, Salé, Sela, aels, ales, lase, leas, sale, sela
Estonian
Pronoun
seal
- there
Etymology
Demonstrative pronoun from pronoun see ("this", "it"). "Seal" is an adessive form of Uralic root *sikä. Compare to Finnish siellä ("siel" in spoken language)
Noun
seal
- adessive case of siga.
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish sel, from Proto-Celtic *swelo- (“turn”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??al?/
Noun
seal m (genitive singular seala, nominative plural sealanna)
- a turn (chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others)
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “sel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “seal” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
- “seal” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 625.
- "seal" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
West Frisian
Etymology 1
From Old Frisian s?l, from Proto-West Germanic *sadul.
Noun
seal n (plural sealen, diminutive sealtsje)
- saddle
Further reading
- “seal (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2
From Old Frisian *sele, from Proto-West Germanic *sali.
Noun
seal c or n (plural sealen, diminutive sealtsje)
- hall
Further reading
- “seal (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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