different between seal vs hallmark

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)

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

2. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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.

2. An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.
3. A design or insignia usually associated with an organization or an official role.
4. Anything that secures or authenticates.
5. Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.

6. (figuratively) Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.

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

8. A tight closure, secure against leakage.

9. 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)

1. (transitive) To place a seal on (a document).
2. To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.

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

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

   Synonyms: block, block off, close, close off, obstruct, seal off

5. (transitive) To close securely to prevent leakage.
6. (transitive) To place in a sealed container.

   Synonym: enclose

7. (transitive, chess) To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.

8. (transitive) To guarantee.
9. 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?)

10. To close by means of a seal.

11. (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)

1. (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

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. hall

Further reading

• “seal (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

1721. hall +? mark, from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, the site of the assay office, official stamp of purity in gold and silver articles. The general sense of "mark of quality" first recorded 1864. Use as a verb from 1773.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?lm??k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??lm??k/

Noun

hallmark (plural hallmarks)

1. A distinguishing characteristic.
2. An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals.
   • 2007, John Zerzan John, Silence.

     It can highlight our embodiment, a qualitative step away from the hallmark machines that work so resolutely to disembody us.

Translations

Verb

hallmark (third-person singular simple present hallmarks, present participle hallmarking, simple past and past participle hallmarked)

1. To provide or stamp with a hallmark.

Translations

See also

• benchmark