sealed

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siːld/

Verb

sealed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of seal

Adjective

sealed (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. Preventing entrance.
  3. Of a road that has an asphalt or macadamised surface.
  4. (object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.

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Derived terms

  • 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

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