📖 S — The English dictionary · page 22

securely — Everyday, meaning 1: In a safe, firm way, so that nothing can come loose or get away.↗ Example: The gate is locked securely.↗ · He tied the goat securely to the post.↗ · The lid was shut securely.↗ · Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.↗ (Writings PRO.3.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Then shalt thou walk in thy way securely, and thou shalt not dash thy foot.↗ (Writings PRO.3.23, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Thy servants shall dwell securely, and their seed shall be established before Thee.'↗ (Writings PSA.102.29, JPS 1917)↗

security — Everyday, meaning 1: Being safe and protected from danger, harm or crime.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Things done to keep a place or people safe: guards, locks, cameras, checks (airport security).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The people whose job is to keep a place safe (Call security!).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Keeping information and accounts safe online (online security, passwords).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A feeling of being safe and cared for (a security blanket).↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Security can also mean something given as a promise that a debt will be paid.↗ Example: We went through security at the airport.↗ · The security guard helped me find my mum in the mall.↗ · Use a strong password for better online security.↗ · The school has security cameras at the gate.↗ · Security checked everyone's bags at the concert.↗ · My teddy gives me a feeling of security at night.↗ · Never share your password — it's for your security.↗ · Now I had said in my security: 'I shall never be moved.'↗ (Writings PSA.30.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And in his place shall stand up a contemptible person, upon whom had not been conferred the majesty of the kingdom; but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by blandishments.↗ (Writings DAN.11.21, JPS 1917)↗

sedate — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Calm, slow and quiet, without excitement.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, medicine) To give a person or animal a drug that makes them calm or sleepy, for example before an operation.↗ Example: We walked at a sedate pace through the park.↗ · Grandma lives a sedate life in the countryside.↗ · The vet sedated the dog before cleaning its teeth.↗ · The zoo keepers sedated the tiger to move it.↗ · The old horse trotted along at a sedate speed.↗ · He was sedated during the operation.↗ · He did not even turn round, for he could not; and yet he was young and freshly cast, but prudent and sedate.↗

sedentary — Everyday, meaning 1: Involving a lot of sitting and little exercise.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of people or animals) Staying in one place, not moving around or migrating.↗ Example: A sedentary lifestyle is bad for your heart.↗ · Sitting at a desk all day is a sedentary job.↗ · Get up and stretch to break up sedentary time.↗ · When farming began, people became sedentary and built villages.↗ · Some birds are sedentary and stay all winter.↗ · Too much gaming can make you sedentary.↗

seder — Everyday, meaning 1: (Jewish faith) The special meal and service held at home on the first night (or first two nights) of the Jewish festival of Passover.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The order of the evening, where the family reads the story of the Exodus from the Haggadah and eats symbolic foods.↗ Example: Rachel's family holds a seder on the first night of Passover.↗ · At the seder the youngest child asks the four questions.↗ · The seder plate has bitter herbs to remember slavery.↗ · They eat matzah at the seder.↗ · We visited a friend's seder and listened to the story of Moses.↗ · The seder ends with songs and hopes for next year in Jerusalem.↗ · Tlie five Se- darim are : Seder 01am, Seder Pekudoth, Seder Shaot, Seder Ibbur, Seder Halakoth.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

sedge — Everyday, meaning 1: A grass-like plant that grows in wet places such as marshes, ponds and riverbanks.↗ Its stems are often triangular.↗ Example: Sedge grows thickly around the pond.↗ · Sedges have three-sided stems.↗ · A sedge warbler sang from the reeds.↗ · We found frogspawn among the sedge.↗ · Ducks nest in the sedge by the river.↗ · Feel the stem: if it has edges, it is a sedge.↗

sediment — Everyday, meaning 1: Sediment is sand, mud, stones and other bits that are carried by water, wind or ice and then settle in a layer, for example at the bottom of a river, lake or sea.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sediment is also the bits that sink to the bottom of a liquid, like in a glass of juice or a bottle of medicine.↗ Example: The river carried sediment down to the sea.↗ · Layers of sediment slowly turned into rock.↗ · Fossils are found in sedimentary rock.↗ · Leave the muddy water to stand and the sediment will sink.↗ · There was a brown sediment at the bottom of the bottle.↗ · The delta is made of sediment dropped by the river.↗

sedimentary — Everyday, meaning 1: Sedimentary rock is rock made from layers of sand, mud, shells or tiny bits of other rock that are pressed together over a very long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sedimentary means made from sediment, the bits that settle at the bottom of water.↗ Example: Sandstone is a sedimentary rock.↗ · Fossils are often found in sedimentary rocks.↗ · The cliff showed many sedimentary layers.↗ · Chalk is a soft sedimentary rock made of tiny shells.↗ · Sedimentary rocks form at the bottom of seas and lakes.↗ · The oldest layers are at the bottom of sedimentary rock.↗

sedition — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Stirring up people to rebel against those who rule.↗ Example: And I decreed, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.↗ (Writings EZR.4.19, JPS 1917)↗

seduce — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To lead someone astray, to tempt them into doing wrong.↗ Example: But they hearkened not; and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.↗ (Prophets 2KI.21.9, JPS 1917)↗

seduction — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The act of leading someone astray with false and attractive words.↗ Example: Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity; but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction.↗ (Writings LAM.2.14, JPS 1917)↗

sedum — Everyday, meaning 1: A small plant with thick fleshy leaves that store water; also called stonecrop.↗ Many sedums have star-shaped flowers and grow on rocks, walls and roofs.↗ Example: The bus shelter has a sedum roof.↗ · Sedum leaves are thick so they can store water.↗ · Butterflies landed on the pink sedum flowers.↗ · We planted sedum in the rock garden.↗ · Sedum is a succulent, like a cactus.↗ · Sedum can grow on old stone walls.↗

see — Everyday, meaning 1: To see is to notice something with your eyes.↗ e.g. I see a bird.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To see is to understand.↗ e.g. I see what you mean.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To see someone is to meet or visit them: see the doctor.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To see is to find out.↗ e.g. Let's see what happens.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «See you» means goodbye, I'll meet you again.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To see someone (casual) is to go out with them as a boyfriend or girlfriend: «Is she seeing anyone?».↗ Everyday, meaning 7: To see to something is to take care of it: «I'll see to the dishes».↗ Everyday, meaning 8: «See ya», «see ya later», «laters» (slang) are short ways to say goodbye.↗ Everyday, meaning 9: «See?» or «See!»↗ (casual, often rude) means «I told you so».↗ Everyday, meaning 10: (formal) «See» in a book or exam means «look at that part»: «see page 4», «see below»; formal writing prefers «observe» and «it can be seen that».↗ Example: What do you see on the table?↗ · Max sees 6 birds on a tree and 3 birds on the ground.↗ · Anna saw 12 cars in the morning and 5 in the afternoon.↗ · Can you see the moon tonight?↗ · I see!↗ Now I understand.↗ · I'm going to see my grandma on Sunday.↗ · See ya tomorrow, mate!↗ · See?↗ Told ya it was 12, not 10.↗ · I seen him take 3 biscuits (nonstandard: «I saw»).↗ · Mum says she'll see to the washing-up.↗ · As can be seen from the table, the aggregate number of birds observed was 9.↗ · Wear something bright so drivers can see you.↗ · "I have never seen you before."↗ · and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; (Torah GEN.28.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them.↗ (Torah EXO.2.25, JPS 1917)↗ · the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders; (Torah DEU.29.3, JPS 1917)↗ · What will ye see in the Shulammite?↗ (Writings SNG.7.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.↗ (Prophets JER.3.7, JPS 1917)↗ · THE BURDEN which Habakkuk the prophet did see.↗ (Prophets HAB.1.1, JPS 1917)↗

seed — Everyday, meaning 1: A seed is the small hard part of a plant that can grow into a new plant.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Seeds are also the small pips inside fruit, like apple seeds or melon seeds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To seed a field is to plant seeds in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In sport a seed is a strong player placed so that top players do not meet early in a tournament.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «The seed of an idea» is where an idea starts.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: In some dialect speech, seed is written for see or seen.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: The children and later family of a person, the people who come after them.↗ Example: She planted 5 rows of 8 seeds.↗ · A packet has 30 seeds.↗ · Only 24 of the seeds grew.↗ · How many seeds are in 4 packets?↗ · A tiny acorn is the seed of a huge oak tree.↗ · Birds eat the seeds from the sunflower heads.↗ · Spit out the watermelon seeds.↗ · The wind carries dandelion seeds far away.↗ · She was the top seed in the tennis tournament.↗ · You oughter seed dat toof, boss.↗ · Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.↗ (Torah GEN.47.23, JPS 1917)↗ · The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.↗ (Torah GEN.28.13, JPS 1917)↗ · 'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you; (Torah GEN.9.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, (Prophets ISA.57.4, JPS 1917)↗ · For what seeketh the one? a seed given of God.↗ (Prophets MAL.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · His soul shall abide in prosperity; and his seed shall inherit the land.↗ (Writings PSA.25.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.↗ (Torah GEN.47.23, JPS 1917) · You oughter seed dat toof, boss.↗ (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) · He returned him to his bosom and kissed him upon the head, and called him, “My beloved,” and cut a covenant for him and his seed.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)

seedling — Everyday, meaning 1: A seedling is a very young plant that has just grown from a seed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A seedling has its first small leaves and needs light, water and care to grow strong.↗ Example: Our bean seedlings grew two centimetres this week.↗ · Water the seedlings gently.↗ · The seedlings on the dark shelf were pale and thin.↗ · We planted the tomato seedlings in the garden.↗ · A seedling grows from a seed.↗ · Slugs ate our lettuce seedlings overnight.↗

seedtime — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: the time of year when seeds are planted.↗ Example: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'↗ (Torah GEN.8.22, JPS 1917)↗

seek — Everyday, meaning 1: To seek means to look for something or someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To seek means to try to get something, like help, advice or safety.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To seek to do something means to try to do it (formal).↗ Example: We played hide and seek in the garden.↗ · If you are lost, seek help from a police officer.↗ · The knights set out to seek the treasure.↗ · Seek shelter during a thunderstorm.↗ · Ready or not, here I come — I'm coming to seek you!↗ · Many people seek advice from the library.↗ · She sought a quiet place to read.↗ · “I am seeking the three bulrushes.↗ · And he said: 'I seek my brethren.↗ (Torah GEN.37.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?'↗ (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.↗ (Torah DEU.23.6, JPS 1917)↗ · I will seek it yet again.'↗ (Writings PRO.23.35, JPS 1917)↗ · How trimmest thou thy way to seek love!↗ (Prophets JER.2.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And Saul and his men went to seek him.↗ (Prophets 1SA.23.25, JPS 1917)↗

seeker — Everyday, meaning 1: A seeker is a person who looks for something, such as the seeker in hide-and-seek who must find the others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A seeker is someone who tries to get or find something they want, like a job seeker or a treasure seeker.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In some games and stories, the seeker is the player whose job is to catch or find a special thing.↗ Example: In hide-and-seek, the seeker counted to twenty with her eyes shut.↗ · Tom was the seeker, so we all ran to hide.↗ · The treasure seekers dug all day on the beach.↗ · My uncle is a job seeker and sends letters to many shops.↗ · A thrill seeker loves roller coasters and bungee jumps.↗ · The seeker found Mia behind the curtain.↗ · Be a seeker of answers: ask questions in class.↗ · In the game, the seeker must catch the golden ball.↗ · I am the Treasure Seeker of the mountain.↗