sealed
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sealed
- simple past and past participle of seal
Adjective
[edit]sealed (not comparable)
- Closed by a seal.
- 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
- Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
- Preventing entrance.
- Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
- (object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
Synonyms
[edit]- (preventing entrance): impermeable
Derived terms
[edit]- heat-sealed
- hermetically sealed
- keep one's lips sealed
- my lips are sealed
- sealed beam
- sealed battery
- sealed-beam headlight
- sealed bearing
- sealed bid
- sealed book
- sealed cabin
- sealed crustless sandwich
- sealed earth
- sealed indictment
- sealed instrument
- sealed jar technique
- Sealed Knot
- sealed off, sealed-off
- sealed orders
- sealed pattern
- sealed porter
- sealed record
- sealed refrigeration compressor
- sealed room
- sealed round
- sealed second-price auction
- sealed server
- sealed source
- sealed system
- sealed unit
- sealed verdict
- signed, sealed and delivered
- tar-sealed
- unsealed
Translations
[edit]closed by a seal
preventing entrance
of a road having an asphalt or a macadamised surface
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