2. trade in, deal in, traffic in, be in the business of; handle, carry, offer for sale, supply, furnish; peddle, vend, hawk, hustle, push, Inf. truck; solicit, run for, SI. fence.
3. market, retail, wholesale, go for, be had for, be bought for, be found for; be in demand, be bought, go, go like hotcakes, move.
4. (all of an idea) win acceptance or approval of, get accepted or approved, get [s.t.] through, get [s.t.] across, get support or votes for, Inf. deliver on; (all of people) convince of, persuade of, bring around or round, sway, induce; talk [s.o.] into, Inf. jawbone, win [s.o.] over, get [s.o.'s] trust or confidence.
5. sell out a. be bought up or out, be depleted, Brit, sell up. b. Informal, take a bribe, go with the money, do anything for money, prostitute oneself, sell one's soul; go over to or join the other side, betray one's cause or self, knife [s.o.] in the back.
6. Informal, swindle, defraud, cheat, fleece, bilk, pluck, flimflam, diddle, run a confidence game or trick on, run a number on, U.S. SI. con, do [s.o.], victimize; palm [s.t.] off on, Inf. gyp, SI. rob [s.o.] blind, Archaic. chouse out of; fool, dupe, gull, pigeon, cully, take in, get, deceive, delude; hoax, trick, Si. horn-swoggle, humbug, cozen, hoodwink, pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, throw dust into [s.o.'s] eyes.
seller, n. merchant, retailer, shopkeeper, storekeeper, tradesman, trader, businessman, wholesaler, jobber; salesperson, salesman, saleswoman, saleslady, salesgirl, shopman, shopgirl, salesclerk, clerk, SI. counterjumper; vendor, peddler, hawker, huckster, chandler, sutler, packman, colporteur, auctioneer, Both Chiefly Brit, monger, costermonger; traveling salesman, door-to-door salesman, U.S. drummer, Fuller Brush man, Avon lady; trafficker, dealer, hustler, supplier, SI. pusher; solicitor, pimp, middleman, broker, runner, SI. fence, SI. duffer.
semblance, n. 1. aspect, appearance, demeanor, mien, air, cast, look; countenance, visage, complexion, feature, face.
2. disguise, camouflage, mask, cloak, incognito; covering, concealment, masquerade; guise, pretense, cover, cover-up; show, veneer, facade, false front, Inf. front; deception, trickery, ruse, artifice, dissimulation.
3. image, portrait, statue, effigy, death mask; bust, simulacrum, icon, facsimile; voodoo doll, fetish doll, idol, graven image, totem.
4. apparition, ghost, shade, Inf. spook, Inf. haunt; shadow, revenant, DoppelgSnger, doubleganger; spirit, presence, wraith, Inf. thing, fetch, phantom, phantasm, specter; vision, eidolon, sight, spectacle; illusion, chimera, creature of the imagination, phantom of the mind.
seminal, adj. 1. potential, possible, probable, prospective, likely, Latin, in posse', undeveloped, yet to be realized, incipient, embryonic, unrealized; full of possibilities, with lots of potential.
2. creative, original, imaginative, ingenious, institutive, individualistic; divergent, unorthodox, unconventional, nonconforming; unimitative, unimitating, unborrowed; prototypal, prototypic, prototypical, exemplary; innovative, fresh, novel, new, unprecedented; singular, special, rare, uncommon, signal, extraordinary, different, unusual, out of the ordinary, unique, Latin, sui generis, one of a kind; influential, precedent-setting, first of its kind, landmark.
seminary, n. 1. preparatory school for the priesthood, divinity school, rabbinical school.
2. academy, institute, private school, boarding school, day school, preparatory school, Inf. prep school, Latin school, grammar school; finishing school.