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Seal can be a verb or a noun.
seal used as a verb:
- To hunt seals
- To place a seal on (a document).
- To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.
"The cover is sealed. If anyone tries to open it, we'll know about it." - To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).
"The border has been sealed until the fugitives are found." - To close securely to prevent leakage.
"I've sealed the bottle to keep the contents fresh." - To place in a sealed container.
"I've sealed the documents in this envelope." - To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.
"After thinking for half an hour, the champion sealed his move." - To guarantee
"The last-minute goal sealed United's win." - To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
seal used as a noun:
- A pinniped, a large marine fish-eating mammal.
"The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled." - A design associated with a government or governmental office.
"The front of the podium bore the presidential seal." - Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design. (See the Wikipedia article)
"The result was declared invalid, as the seal on the meter had been broken." - Something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint.
"The canister is leaking. I think the main seal needs to be replaced." - Security against leakage.
"Close the lid tightly to get a good seal." - Security against unauthorized tampering.
"The spot-check found three containers with broken seals."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is seal?
- Verb usage: The cover is sealed. If anyone tries to open it, we'll know about it.
- Verb usage: The border has been sealed until the fugitives are found.
- Verb usage: I've sealed the bottle to keep the contents fresh.
- Verb usage: I've sealed the documents in this envelope.
- Verb usage: After thinking for half an hour, the champion sealed his move.
- Verb usage: The last-minute goal sealed United's win.
- Noun usage: The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled.
- Noun usage: The front of the podium bore the presidential seal.
- Noun usage: The result was declared invalid, as the seal on the meter had been broken.
- Noun usage: The canister is leaking. I think the main seal needs to be replaced.
- Noun usage: Close the lid tightly to get a good seal.
- Noun usage: The spot-check found three containers with broken seals.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of seal are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of seal, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).