📖 S — The English dictionary · page 23

seekest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «seekest» means «you seek», a form of «seek».↗ e.g. To seek means to look for something or someone.↗ Example: And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?'↗ (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917) · ‘Is it thou that seekest my daughter?’↗ (The Lilac Fairy Book) · Said Yspathaden Penkawr, "Is it thou that seekest my daughter?"↗ (Celtic Fairy Tales)

seel — Everyday, meaning 1: (old, falconry) To seel a hawk or falcon was to sew its eyelids shut for a while to tame it.↗ This is not done today and is thought cruel.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old, poetry) Seel can mean to close someone's eyes, to blind them.↗ Example: In medieval times, falconers would seel a young hawk.↗ · The old poem talks of night coming to seel the eyes of day.↗ · The book explained that seeling hawks is no longer allowed.↗ · Is «seel» a typo for «seal» in this sentence?↗ · Hunters once seeled falcons to calm them.↗ · «Seel» is one of the rarest words in our dictionary.↗

seem — Everyday, meaning 1: To seem means to look or appear to be something, from what you can see or know: «She seems happy».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «It seems» is used to say what you think is true but are not sure about: «It seems we are lost».↗ Example: You seem tired today.↗ · The dog seems friendly, but ask the owner first.↗ · It seems like it will rain.↗ · The puzzle seemed hard at first.↗ · Things are not always what they seem.↗ · He seems to know the answer.↗ · The test seemed to last forever.↗ · It seems that we took the wrong path.↗ · "It's fated I must, it seems!↗ · And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.↗ (Torah GEN.29.20, JPS 1917)↗ · My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a mocker; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.'↗ (Torah GEN.27.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said: 'Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city.'↗ But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that jested.↗ (Torah GEN.19.14, JPS 1917)↗ · It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees.↗ (Writings PSA.74.5, JPS 1917)↗ · This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: (Writings ECC.9.13, JPS 1917)↗ · It hath seemed good unto me to declare the signs and wonders that God Most High hath wrought toward me.↗ (Writings DAN.3.32, JPS 1917)↗

seemeth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «seemeth» means «seems», a form of «seem»: To seem means to look or appear to be something, from what you can see or know: «She seems happy».↗ Example: then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying: 'There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house.'↗ (Torah LEV.14.35, JPS 1917)

seemingly — Everyday, meaning 1: Apparently, so it looks, though it may not be true.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Looking like something, though perhaps not really so.↗ Example: The seemingly easy sum was tricky.↗ · Seemingly, the road was empty.↗ · She was seemingly calm, but inside she was worried.↗

seemly — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Proper and fitting; suitable for the occasion.↗ Example: Luxury is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.↗ (Writings PRO.19.10, JPS 1917)↗ · As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.↗ (Writings PRO.26.1, JPS 1917)↗

seep — Everyday, meaning 1: When a liquid seeps, it flows slowly through small holes or cracks, a little at a time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When a feeling or an idea seeps in, it slowly spreads into someone's mind.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Light, cold or smell can seep in through a gap, coming in slowly.↗ Example: Rainwater seeps into the ground and becomes groundwater.↗ · Water seeped under the door during the storm.↗ · The juice seeped through the paper bag.↗ · Cold air seeped in through the cracked window.↗ · Ink seeped through the page and spoiled the next one.↗ · Slowly the truth seeped into his mind: he had lost the key.↗ · Oil seeped out of the old car onto the driveway.↗ · Sand lets water seep through faster than clay does.↗

seeping — Everyday, meaning 1: Seeping means flowing slowly through small holes or cracks right now.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, seeping describes a liquid that is slowly leaking or soaking through.↗ Example: Water was seeping through the roof into a bucket.↗ · We saw dark water seeping from the bottom of the cooler.↗ · Blood was seeping through the bandage, so the nurse added another pad.↗ · Cold was seeping through my thin socks.↗ · Seeping water slowly wore a hole in the rock.↗ · Is that juice seeping out of your backpack?↗ · The smell of toast was seeping under the bedroom door.↗

seer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who is believed to be able to see what will happen in the future; a prophet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible, history) In the Bible, "seer" is an old word for a prophet, like Samuel.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Literally, someone who sees.↗ Example: The seer warned the king about the battle.↗ · In Greek myths, the seer Tiresias was blind but could see the future.↗ · Samuel was called a seer in the Bible.↗ · The fortune-teller claimed to be a seer.↗ · The village seer looked into the fire and spoke.↗ · "I am no seer," said Dad, "but I think it will rain."↗ · He was a king, a seer and a poet.↗ · This word is from ChZCh, a seer, seership.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Twelfth Path is the Intelligence of Transparency, because it is that species of Magnificence., called CHAZCHAZIT, which is named the place whence issues the vision of those seeing in apparitions.↗ (That is, the prophecies by seers in a vision.)↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · And the LORD spoke unto Gad, David's seer, saying: (Writings 1CH.21.9, JPS 1917)↗ · These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.↗ (Writings 1CH.9.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.9.18, JPS 1917)↗

seesaw — Everyday, meaning 1: A long board balanced in the middle on which two children sit at opposite ends and go up and down.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To move up and down or back and forth again and again, or to keep changing between two states.↗ Example: We went up and down on the seesaw at the park.↗ · Dad is heavier, so he sat nearer the middle of the seesaw to balance it.↗ · A seesaw is a kind of lever.↗ · The score seesawed all game until the last goal.↗ · My mood seesawed between happy and nervous before the concert.↗ · Hold on tight on the seesaw and don't jump off suddenly.↗

seeth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «seeth» means «sees», a form of «see»: To see is to notice something with your eyes.↗ e.g. I see a bird.↗ Example: And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.↗ (Torah EXO.4.14, JPS 1917) · Our heaviest grief the world oft seeth not, Our sorest pain we hide from stranger eyes: And for the sufferer there is nothing left But the green mound that o'er the coffin lies.”↗ (Andersen's Fairy Tales) · The saying of him who heareth the words of God, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, fallen down, yet with opened eyes:↗ (Torah NUM.24.4, JPS 1917)

seethe — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To boil or bubble hard, like a pot of hot liquid.↗ In Jewish tradition, meaning 2: To be very angry inside, while showing little of it.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: To cook something by boiling it in liquid.↗ Example: Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.↗ (Torah EXO.23.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.'↗ (Torah EXO.34.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe its flesh in a holy place.↗ (Torah EXO.29.31, JPS 1917)↗ · Take the choice of the flock, and pile also the bones under it; make it boil well, that the bones thereof may also be seethed in the midst of it.↗ (Prophets EZK.24.5, JPS 1917)↗ · The soup seethes in the pot.↗ · The cauldron seethed over the fire.↗ · He was seething inside, though he said nothing.↗ · Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.↗ (Torah EXO.23.19, JPS 1917) · Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.'↗ (Torah EXO.34.26, JPS 1917) · And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe its flesh in a holy place.↗ (Torah EXO.29.31, JPS 1917)

seething — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To be seething is to be full of heaving, bubbling or crowded movement, like boiling water.↗ In Jewish tradition, meaning 2: (informal) To be seething is to be very angry inside but keeping it in.↗ Example: Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.↗ (Writings JOB.41.12, JPS 1917)↗ · He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.↗ (Writings JOB.41.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying: 'What seest thou?'↗ And I said: 'I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is from the north.'↗ (Prophets JER.1.13, JPS 1917)↗ · The creek was seething with round black things.↗ · The pot of seething water bubbled over.↗ · He was seething inside, but he said nothing.↗

segment — Everyday, meaning 1: A segment is one of the parts something is divided into, like a segment of an orange.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In maths, a line segment is the part of a line between two end points.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A segment of a circle is the part cut off by a straight line (a chord).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A segment of a TV or radio show is one part of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb) To segment means to divide into parts; in phonics, to segment a word means to split it into its sounds: c-a-t.↗ Example: I ate an orange segment by segment.↗ · Draw a line segment 6 centimetres long.↗ · The orange had 10 segments, so 5 children got 2 each.↗ · A worm's body is made of many segments.↗ · A triangle has three line segments for sides.↗ · Segment the word "ship" into sounds: sh-i-p.↗ · The news had a short segment on the school fair.↗

segregation — Everyday, meaning 1: Keeping groups of people apart by law or custom because of their race, religion or sex; it is unfair and wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Separating things into groups: the segregation of waste for recycling.↗ Example: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and helped end segregation.↗ · Segregation meant Black children went to different schools.↗ · Segregation was unfair and is now against the law.↗ · Martin Luther King spoke out against segregation.↗ · The segregation of waste makes recycling easier.↗ · The museum taught us about the history of segregation.↗

seine — Everyday, meaning 1: A seine is a large fishing net that hangs straight down in the water, with floats on top and weights at the bottom; the ends are pulled together to trap fish.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To seine is to catch fish with this kind of net.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Seine (with a capital S) is the river that flows through Paris in France.↗ Example: The fishermen pulled the seine onto the beach.↗ · We took a boat trip on the Seine in Paris.↗ · Scientists used a seine to count the small fish.↗ · They were seining for sardines at dawn.↗ · The Seine flows past Notre-Dame.↗ · A seine has floats on top and weights below.↗ · Paris grew up on both banks of the Seine.↗ · Steamer after steamer, crowded with people, glides down the Seine.↗

seismic — Everyday, meaning 1: Seismic means to do with earthquakes or the shaking of the earth: seismic waves, seismic activity.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Seismic can also mean very big and important, like a huge change that shakes everything: a seismic shift.↗ Example: Seismic waves spread out from the centre of an earthquake.↗ · New Zealand has a lot of seismic activity.↗ · The seismic station recorded a small tremor last night.↗ · Schools in Japan practise for seismic events.↗ · Winning the cup caused a seismic change in the town's mood.↗ · Engineers build bridges to resist seismic shaking.↗ · We drew a seismic wave on graph paper in science.↗

seismograph — Everyday, meaning 1: A machine that measures and records how much the ground shakes during an earthquake.↗ Example: The seismograph drew big zigzag lines during the earthquake.↗ · Scientists in New Zealand watch seismographs day and night.↗ · A seismograph can detect earthquakes on the other side of the world.↗ · We made a model seismograph with a pen and a moving strip of paper.↗ · The seismograph showed small shakes before the volcano erupted.↗ · Seismograph records help warn people about tsunamis.↗

seize — Everyday, meaning 1: To take hold of something suddenly and firmly; to grab.↗ e.g. He seized the rope.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To take control of a place by force.↗ e.g. The army seized the town.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of police, officials) To take something away by law.↗ e.g. Police seized the stolen goods.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To take a chance quickly.↗ e.g. Seize the day!↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Seize up» means to become stuck and stop working, like an engine or stiff muscles.↗ Example: She seized the ball and ran.↗ · The rebels seized the castle.↗ · Police seized 200 fake watches.↗ · Seize the chance to learn something new!↗ · My legs seized up after the long race.↗ · The car engine seized because it had no oil.↗ · He was seized with fear in the dark.↗ · The Barmecide seized him by the hand.↗ · To seize, to take hold of.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The Zohar represents absolute truth, and the Sepher Jezirah provides the means by which we may seize, appropriate and make use of it."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized!↗ (Prophets JER.51.41, JPS 1917)↗ · The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the ungodly: 'Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?↗ (Prophets ISA.33.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And the fords are seized, and the castles they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.↗ (Prophets JER.51.32, JPS 1917)↗