sealed en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /siːld/
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
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.
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
- (not-comparable) Preventing entrance.
- (not-comparable) Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
- (not-comparable, qualifier:object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
Deriveds
presealed · sealed beam · sealed server · sealed bid · sealed off · sealed source · sealed instrument · my lips are sealed · sealed book · sealed bearing · signed, sealed and delivered · sealed room · sealed pattern · sealed round · sealed system · sealed earth · hermetically sealed · heat-sealed · sealed indictment · sealed verdict · unsealed · sealed porter · sealed-off · sealed-beam headlight · Sealed Knot · keep one's lips sealed · nonsealed · sealed jar technique · sealed record · sealed refrigeration compressor · sealed second-price auction · sealed crustless sandwich · tar-sealed · sealed unit · sealed orders · sealed battery · sealed cabin
Synonyms
impermeable (preventing entrance)
Translations (15)
mi papatau (of a road having an asphalt or a macadamised surface) · it sigillato (closed by a seal) · la sigillātus (closed by a seal) · es cerrado (preventing entrance) · es sellado (preventing entrance) · mi papatau (preventing entrance) · de versiegelt (closed by a seal) · cmn 封閉的 /封闭的 (preventing entrance) · cmn 密封的 (closed by a seal) · cmn 封鎖的 /封锁的 (preventing entrance) · it sigillato (preventing entrance) · de dicht (preventing entrance) · tr mühürlü (closed by a seal) · bg запечатан (closed by a seal) · tr mühürlü (preventing entrance)