📖 S — The English dictionary · page 20

seamstress — Everyday, meaning 1: A woman whose job is sewing and mending clothes.↗ Example: The seamstress sewed my new school dress.↗ · The seamstresses worked late to finish the gowns.↗ · Mum took the torn coat to the seamstress.↗

seaport — Everyday, meaning 1: A town or city by the sea, with a harbour where ships load and unload.↗ Example: After a long walk, we reached a seaport.↗ · The ship sailed from the busy seaport.↗ · Ships unload their cargo at the seaport.↗

search — Everyday, meaning 1: To search is to look carefully for something or someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To search a place or a person is to look through it carefully to find something hidden.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To search on the internet is to type words into a search engine to find information.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A search is the act of looking for something.↗ Example: I searched everywhere for my left shoe.↗ · We searched the internet for facts about volcanoes.↗ · The police searched the house.↗ · A search party went out to find the lost hiker.↗ · The search for the missing cat lasted two days.↗ · Search your bag before you say it is lost.↗ · The explorers went in search of gold.↗ · Type a word in the search box.↗ · He searched among the shavings--no one!↗ · And he searched, beginning at the eldest, and leaving off at the youngest; and the goblet was found in Benjamin's sack.↗ (Torah GEN.44.12, JPS 1917)↗ · But from thence ye will seek the LORD thy God; and thou shalt find Him, if thou search after Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.↗ (Torah DEU.4.29, JPS 1917)↗ · then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee; (Torah DEU.13.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Would not God search this out?↗ (Writings PSA.44.22, JPS 1917)↗ · His discernment is past searching out.↗ (Prophets ISA.40.28, JPS 1917)↗ · O LORD, Thou hast searched me, and known me.↗ (Writings PSA.139.1, JPS 1917)↗

searcher — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who looks hard for someone or something, for example in a search party.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sometimes a person or program that searches for information.↗ Example: The searchers found the lost hiker before dark.↗ · Hundreds of searchers walked through the woods.↗ · If you are lost, stay still and wait for the searchers.↗ · Searchers used dogs to follow the trail.↗ · The searchers shouted the boy's name.↗ · A searcher spotted the missing kayak.↗

searching — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The act of looking into something carefully, here of the heart.↗ Example: At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.↗ (Prophets JDG.5.16, JPS 1917)↗

seared — Everyday, meaning 1: Burnt or scorched the surface of something with strong heat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (cooking) Cooked the outside of meat or fish quickly in a very hot pan.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Caused a sharp, burning pain or a strong lasting feeling: «the memory was seared into her mind».↗ Example: Dad seared the steak in a hot pan.↗ · The sun seared the grass brown.↗ · The image of the fire was seared into his memory.↗ · Pan-seared salmon is crispy outside.↗ · Pain seared through his ankle when he fell.↗ · The desert wind seared their faces.↗

searing — Everyday, meaning 1: Searing means extremely hot, hot enough to burn: searing heat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Searing pain is sudden, sharp and very strong.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Searing words or criticism are very harsh and strong.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a verb, searing means cooking the outside of meat quickly at a very high heat, or burning a surface.↗ Example: The desert sun was searing at midday.↗ · She felt a searing pain when she touched the hot pan.↗ · The chef is searing the steak on both sides.↗ · Bushfires bring searing winds in Australia.↗ · The coach gave a searing speech after the loss.↗ · Searing temperatures closed the beach.↗ · The metal was searing hot after hours in the sun.↗

seashell — Everyday, meaning 1: The hard empty shell of a sea animal, such as a snail, clam, mussel or scallop, often found on the beach.↗ Example: We collected seashells on the beach.↗ · She sells seashells by the seashore.↗ · Hold a seashell to your ear and you seem to hear the sea.↗ · Hermit crabs live in old seashells.↗ · We sorted the seashells by size and colour.↗ · The seashell was spiral like a snail's.↗ · Disappearing within his teepee, he came out again with some huge seashells.↗

seashore — Everyday, meaning 1: The land along the edge of the sea, such as a beach, rocks or sand.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The area between high tide and low tide.↗ Example: We collected shells on the seashore.↗ · Crabs and starfish live on the seashore.↗ · We walked along the seashore at sunset.↗ · Rock pools are found on the rocky seashore.↗ · "She sells seashells on the seashore" is a tongue-twister.↗ · The tide covers the seashore twice a day.↗ · One day the Dog wandered down to the seashore.↗ · that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; (Torah GEN.22.17, JPS 1917)↗

seasick — Everyday, meaning 1: Seasick means feeling sick, dizzy or wanting to vomit because a boat or ship is moving up and down on the water.↗ Example: I always get seasick on the ferry to Ireland.↗ · The seasick passengers stood by the rail.↗ · Look at the horizon if you feel seasick.↗ · Even the captain was seasick in the storm.↗ · My sister took a tablet so she would not be seasick.↗ · The rocking boat made Tom feel seasick.↗ · Some people are never seasick at all.↗ · The rocking made him seasick and the noose, becoming tighter and tighter, choked him.↗

seasickness — Everyday, meaning 1: Seasickness is the sick, dizzy feeling some people get when a boat moves on the water.↗ It can make you vomit, feel tired and look pale.↗ Example: Seasickness ruined the first day of our boat trip.↗ · Ginger biscuits may help with seasickness.↗ · Many sailors get over seasickness after a few days.↗ · The doctor gave Mum a patch for seasickness.↗ · Seasickness is a kind of motion sickness.↗ · Fresh air on deck eased his seasickness.↗ · Lord Nelson, a famous admiral, is said to have suffered from seasickness.↗

seaside — Everyday, meaning 1: The seaside is a place by the sea, especially a beach or town where people go on holiday.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) By the sea: a seaside town.↗ Example: We went to the seaside for the day.↗ · Brighton is a seaside town.↗ · At the seaside we built sandcastles.↗ · Seaside holidays in the past were very different.↗ · Swim between the red and yellow flags at the seaside.↗ · Grandma lives in a little seaside village.↗ · The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow.↗

season — Everyday, meaning 1: A season is one of the four parts of the year: spring, summer, autumn (fall in the USA and Canada) and winter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A season is also a time of year when something happens: the rainy season, the football season, the holiday season.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To season food means to add salt, pepper, herbs or spices to give it flavour.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To season wood means to dry it out over time so it is ready to use.↗ Example: There are four seasons in a year.↗ · My favourite season is autumn, when the leaves turn orange.↗ · In Australia, Christmas comes in the summer season.↗ · Strawberries are in season in summer.↗ · The football season starts again soon.↗ · Some countries near the equator have a rainy season and a dry season.↗ · Dad seasoned the soup with salt and pepper.↗ · Each season lasts about three months.↗ · Rails split 'fo' bre'kfus'll season de dinner.↗ · 'Let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.↗ (Torah NUM.9.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.↗ (Torah EXO.13.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the appointed seasons of the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.23.44, JPS 1917)↗ · Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season?↗ (Writings JOB.38.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Who appointedst the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.↗ (Writings PSA.104.19, JPS 1917)↗ · To declare Thy lovingkindness in the morning, and Thy faithfulness in the night seasons, (Writings PSA.92.3, JPS 1917)↗

seasonal — Everyday, meaning 1: Seasonal means happening or needed only at a certain season of the year.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Seasonal food is food that is ripe and fresh at that time of year.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Seasonal work is a job only for part of the year, like picking fruit or Christmas shop work.↗ Example: Strawberries are seasonal fruit in summer.↗ · Leaves falling is a seasonal change.↗ · Many farms hire seasonal workers at harvest time.↗ · The seasonal flu jab is given each autumn.↗ · Seasonal rains fill the rivers.↗ · The shop has a seasonal sale in winter.↗

seasonally — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that depends on or changes with the seasons of the year.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: At certain seasons only.↗ Example: Many birds move seasonally between countries.↗ · We try to eat seasonally and buy local strawberries in summer.↗ · The river floods seasonally after heavy rain.↗ · Some shops open only seasonally, in the holidays.↗ · The weather changes seasonally.↗ · Unemployment figures are seasonally adjusted.↗

seat — Everyday, meaning 1: A seat is something to sit on, like a chair, a bench or a place on a bus.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A seat is a place where one person can sit in a theatre, plane or classroom.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To seat someone is to give them a place to sit or to show them where to sit.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A table or room that seats 6 has room for 6 people.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A seat is also a place in a parliament or council won in an election.↗ Example: A bus has 40 seats.↗ · The hall has 12 rows of 20 seats.↗ · 35 seats are taken; how many are empty?↗ · Each table seats 6 people.↗ · Please take a seat and wait for your name.↗ · Small children must ride in a car seat in the back seat.↗ · Can you save me a seat next to you at lunch?↗ · The guests were seated at long tables.↗ · Fasten your seat belt before the car moves.↗ · The fool took his seat and drove off.↗ · And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. — (Torah NUM.21.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Learn this wisdom, and be wise in the understanding of it, investigate these numbers, and draw knowledge from them, fix the design in its purity, and pass from it to its Creator seated on his throne.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute?↗ (Writings PSA.94.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!↗ (Writings JOB.23.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; (Prophets AMO.6.3, JPS 1917)↗

seatbelt — Everyday, meaning 1: A strong belt in a car, bus or plane that holds you in your seat to keep you safe in a crash or sudden stop.↗ Example: Fasten your seatbelt before we go.↗ · Wearing a seatbelt saves lives.↗ · The seatbelt sign is on, so stay seated.↗ · Make sure the seatbelt goes across your shoulder, not your neck.↗ · Dad won't start the car until we buckle our seatbelts.↗ · It's the law to wear a seatbelt.↗

seaward — Everyday, meaning 1: Towards the sea, away from the land.↗ Example: The wind blew the boat seaward.↗ · The shoals lay to seaward, hidden under the waves.↗ · The cliffs drop away on the seaward side.↗

seawards — Everyday, meaning 1: Towards the sea, away from the land.↗ Example: The tide was flowing seawards.↗ · The boat drifted seawards in the strong wind.↗ · From the cliff we looked seawards.↗ · Rip currents can pull swimmers seawards; swim parallel to the shore to escape.↗ · The river runs seawards through the town.↗ · The house faces seawards.↗

seawater — Everyday, meaning 1: The salty water of the sea or the ocean.↗ Example: Never drink seawater; it is too salty.↗ · We left seawater in a dish and the sun dried it into salt crystals.↗ · Seawater tastes salty because of dissolved salts.↗ · It is easier to float in seawater than in a pool.↗ · The crabs lived in a rock pool of seawater.↗ · Seawater makes metal rust faster.↗ · About 97 out of every 100 litres of Earth's water is seawater.↗ · We filled our bucket with seawater to keep the shells wet.↗ · It had something of the taste of seawater, certainly, although it had been drawn from the well outside.↗

seaweed — Everyday, meaning 1: Seaweed is a plant-like living thing that grows in the sea, often green, brown or red, and sticks to rocks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Seaweed is also used as food in many countries, for example in sushi and some snacks.↗ Example: The beach was covered with seaweed after the storm.↗ · Crabs hide under the seaweed in rock pools.↗ · Be careful, the seaweed on the rocks is slippery.↗ · Sushi is wrapped in dried seaweed.↗ · Seaweed gives food and shelter to many sea animals.↗ · A long strand of seaweed wrapped around my leg.↗ · Seaweed is a type of algae.↗ · We made a collage with bits of seaweed and shells.↗ · She went out and cropped the seaweed which grew in great abundance near the shore, and always kept in good condition.↗

seb — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Seb is a short form of the boy's name Sebastian.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not an ordinary English word in lower case; as letters it can be an abbreviation used by organisations.↗ Example: Seb is my best friend in Year 5.↗ · Sebastian likes to be called Seb.↗ · «Pass the ball, Seb!» shouted the coach.↗ · Seb's birthday party is on Saturday.↗