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seal ~ seal

[the same pronunciation that rhymes with "peel"]

“Seal”, as a noun, is ‘a mark that has a special individual design that shows the legal or official authority (power) of a person or office or organisation; the object that is used to make the mark; a piece of wax, paper, some soft material, such as a wire, foil, etc. that one has to break in order to open a container, such as a tin, plastic bag, box, lock, package, some medicine bottle, etc. and an envelope or a folder or a package containing some important documents’; as a verb, it is ‘to close an entrance, such as a door, an access to a place, and to close a container with something that protects the contents from air, water and/or thieves, so that one will come to know if it has been opened or used earlier’,

e.g.

Any document issued without the seal of office has no value.

My friend’s office is locked and a seal of the county court is put on it for violating tax regulations.

If you seal the jars well, the pickles in them will keep for months or even years.

The government sealed most of the offices in this building for not installing fire alarms.

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“Seal” (noun) is ‘an animal (mammal) that lives on fish and is found in and around water, mostly on the coastal areas’,

e.g.

Seals have been hunted so extensively that now there are only a few thousands left in some parts of the earth.

Polar bears feed mostly on seals found in the icy waters of the Polar Regions.

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