SEAL

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seal¹ I. substantiv

1. (zool.) focă-comună (Phoca vitulina);

eared seal focă-neagră / cenuşie.

2. blana ursului de mare / a focii etc.

seal¹ II. verb intranzitiv

a vâna foci, urşi polari etc.

seal² I. substantiv

1. pecete, sigiliu (şi fig.);

great State seal marea pecete a Statului;

Privy seal mică pecete a Statului;

leaden seal pecete de plumb;

to return the seals a preda funcţia de cancelar / de ministru;

to set one’s seal to a-şi pune pecetea pe, a autoriza, a confirma;

under my hand and seal cu iscălitură şi pecete proprie; garantat de mine;

he has the seal of death in his face poartă pecetea morţii pe faţă;

seal of love pecetea dragostei (sărut, naşterea unui copil etc.).

2. (tehn.) strat izolator, izolare.

3. (tehn.) boiandrug; perete dublu cu umplutură, batardou; vană, obturator, închizător.

seal² II. verb tranzitiv

1. a sigila, a pecetlui; a plumbui.

2. a autoriza; a confirma; a întări, a ratifica.

3. (şi to seal up) a închide, a încuia, a păstra închis; a fereca;

my lips are sealed nu voi scoate o vorbă;

it is a sealed book to me este o carte închisă / un mister pentru mine.

4. a închide ermetic; a astupa; a înfunda; a lipi, a încleia;

windows must be sealed up ferestrele trebuie închise ermetic.

5. (fig.) a pecetlui, a hotărî, a decide definitiv (soarta etc.);

his fate is sealed soarta îi este pecetluită;

death has sealed her for his own prin moarte a devenit a lui pentru totdeauna.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Within we were seated round the cane table, on which lay a sealed envelope.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When those packets were sealed up, Jonas Oldacre got McFarlane to secure one of the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft wax.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He broke the seal and glanced over the contents.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus reminded of it, I broke the seal and read as follows.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I had hardly sealed the letter, when, to my surprise, Van Helsing walked into the room, saying:—Can I help you, friend John?

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

These, I afterward learned, were the hunters, the men who shot the seals, and a very superior breed to common sailor-folk.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Henry Crawford had quite made up his mind by the next morning to give another fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent for his hunters, and written a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he looked round at his sister as he sealed and threw the letter from him, and seeing the coast clear of the rest of the family, said, with a smile, And how do you think I mean to amuse myself, Mary, on the days that I do not hunt?

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

If then your eye goes on to read this line, I know that I shall already have been exposed and dragged from my home, or as is more likely, for you know that my heart is weak, by lying with my tongue sealed forever in death.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The merchant thought this was no great thing to ask; that it would most likely be his dog or his cat, or something of that sort, but forgot his little boy Heinel; so he agreed to the bargain, and signed and sealed the bond to do what was asked of him.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

This seal had been stamped upon him again, and ineradicably, on his second return from the Wild, when the long famine was over and there was fish once more in the village of Grey Beaver.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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