Topic: ANIMALS
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Sense: 1
| Origin: | Old English seolh |
| Date: | 1100-1200 |
| Language: | Old French |
| Origin: | seel, from Latin sigillum, from signum; SIGN1 |
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seal1 S3
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[countable]1HBA a large sea animal that eats fish and lives around coasts
2
a) a mark that has a special design and shows the legal or official authority of a person or organization : The document carried the seal of the governor's office.
The document carried the seal of the governor's office.b) the object that is used to make this mark
3 a piece of rubber or plastic that keeps air, water, dirt etc out of something
4 a piece of wax, paper, wire etc that you have to break in order to open a container, document etc
5 if you give something your seal of approval, you say that you approve of it, especially officially :
seal of approval
6 to make something definite or complete : In 1972, Nixon himself went to China to set the seal on the new relationship.
set the seal on something
British EnglishIn 1972, Nixon himself went to China to set the seal on the new relationship.