sealed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːld/
• Rhymes: -iːld

Verb

sealed

1. simple past 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: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
4. (object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.

Synonyms

• (preventing entrance): impermeable

Derived terms

• 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

closed by a seal

• Bulgarian: запечатан (bg) (zapečatan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密封的 (zh) (mìfēng de)

• German: versiegelt (de)

preventing entrance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 封閉的／封闭的 (zh) (fēngbì de), 封鎖的／封锁的 (zh) (fēngsuǒ de)

• German: dicht (de)
• Maori: papatau (of a surface especially a road)
• Spanish: sellado (es), cerrado (es)

of a road having an asphalt or a macadamised surface

• Maori: papatau

Anagrams

• Adeles, adeles, deales, deseal, leased