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Seep vs Seel - What's the difference?

seep | seel |

As nouns the difference between seep and seel

is that seep is a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (eg water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface while seel is rope, cord.

As a verb seep

is to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings.

seep

English

(wikipedia seep)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface
  • moisture that seeps out; a seepage
  • A seafloor vent

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings

    • Synonyms

    * leak

    See also

    * sip * siphon

    Anagrams

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    seel

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
  • (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
    • the seel of the day
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
  • * J. Reading
    • Fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
  • (by extension) To blind.

    • Etymology 4

    Compare (etyl) , and (etyl) (m) (transitive verb).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • (Sir Walter Raleigh)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
    • (Sandys)

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