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Pinniped Pinnipeds (pronounced ), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the w ...

, a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals, many of which are commonly called seals, particularly: **

Earless seal The earless seals, phocids or true seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia. All true seals are members of the family Phocidae (). They are sometimes called crawling seals to distinguish them from t ...

, or "true seal" **

Fur seal Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family ''Otariidae''. They are much more closely related to sea lions than Earless seal, true seals, and share with them external ears (pinnae), r ...

Seal (emblem) A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made. The original purpose was to authenticate a document, or to prevent interference with a ...

, a device to impress an emblem, used as a means of authentication, on paper, wax, clay or another medium (the impression is also called a seal) *

Seal (mechanical) A mechanical seal is a device that helps join systems and mechanisms together by preventing leakage (e.g. in a pumping system), containing pressure, or excluding contamination. The effectiveness of a seal is dependent on adhesion in the case of ...

, a device which helps prevent leakage, contain pressure, or exclude contamination where two systems join In military: *

United States Navy SEALs The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the United States Navy, U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the United States Naval Special Warfare Command, Naval Special Wa ...

, the U.S. Navy's principal special operations force * Royal Thai Navy SEALs, part of the Royal Thai Navy In sport: * Florida Seals, a minor league ice hockey team from 2002 and 2007 *

California Golden Seals The California Golden Seals were a professional ice hockey club that competed in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1967–68 NHL season, 1967 to 1975–76 NHL season, 1976. Based in Oakland, California, they played their home games at the Or ...

, originally ''California Seals'', a former NHL ice hockey team *

San Francisco Seals (baseball) The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team in San Francisco, California, that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 before transferring to Phoenix, Arizona. The organization was named for the abundant California se ...

, a minor league baseball team in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 *

San Francisco Seals (ice hockey) The San Francisco Seals were a minor league hockey team which played in the Western Hockey League from 1961 to 1967. Pro hockey returns to California After his Spokane Comets were eliminated from the 1960–61 WHL playoffs, owner Mel Smith annou ...

, a minor league hockey team in the Western Hockey League from 1961 until 1967 * San Francisco Seals (soccer), an American soccer team in the USL Premier Development League from 1992 until 2008 * Victoria Seals, a professional baseball team based in Victoria, British Columbia from 2008 until 2010 *

San Diego Seals The San Diego Seals are a box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League. They play their home games at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego, California. The 2018-2019 season was their inaugural season. History On August 30, 2017, the NLL award ...

, a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League Places: *

Seals, Georgia Seals is an unincorporated location in Camden County in the state of Georgia, United States. Its position is at at an elevation of 21 feet. It is located at the point where the Old Jefferson Highway meets the railway line, just east of Flo ...

, United States *

Seal's Rock Lundy is an English island in the Bristol Channel. It was a micronation from 1925–1969. It forms part of the district of Torridge in the county of Devon. About long and wide, Lundy has had a long and turbulent history, frequently changi ...

, Lundy, Devonshire, England Other: *

Seals (surname) Seals is an English surname of Cornish origin. The Seals family lived in the parish of Seal which had holdings in the English counties of Northumberland, Leicester, Surrey and Kent. List of people with surname Seals * AJ Seals (born 2000), A ...

* "SEALS", the

South East Academic Libraries System The South African ''South East Academic Libraries System'', commonly known as SEALS, was conceptualized in 1998 as a regional library cooperative, and fully constituted in 1999 as a regional consortium, under the auspices of the Eastern Cape Hig ...

* "Seals", an episode of the television series ''

Teletubbies ''Teletubbies'' is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on the ...

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Southeast Asian Linguistics Society The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) is a linguistic society dedicated to the study of languages and linguistics in mainland and insular Southeast Asia. It was founded in 1991 by Martha Ratliff and Eric Schiller. Paul Sidwell is current ...

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