sealed

seal ¹

 (sēl)

n.

1.

a. A device or material that is used to close off or fasten an opening or connection, especially to prevent the escape of a liquid or gas: used caulk as a seal around the window.

b. An airtight closure: a door that lacks a tight seal.

c. Something, such as a piece of tape, that is placed on a product or package to show that the contents have not been tampered with.

d. The water in the trap of a drain that prevents sewer gas from escaping into a room.

2.

a. A design used to identify a person or thing or to show that something is authentic, accurate, or of good quality: The title page is marked with the publisher's seal. Does the scale have the inspector's seal?

b. A small decorative paper sticker.

3.

a. A die or signet having a raised or incised emblem used to stamp an impression on a receptive substance such as wax or lead.

b. The impression so made.

c. The design or emblem itself, belonging exclusively to the user: a monarch's seal.

d. A small disk or wafer of wax, lead, or paper bearing such an imprint and affixed to a document to prove authenticity or to secure it.

4. An indication or symbol regarded as guaranteeing or authenticating something: The choral director gave the program his seal of approval.

tr.v. sealed, seal·ing, seals

1.

a. To close or fasten with a seal: seal an envelope; seal a test tube.

b. To prevent (a liquid or gas) from escaping: Charring a piece of meat seals in the juices.

c. To cover, secure, or fill up (an opening): sealed the hole in the pipe with epoxy.

d. To apply a waterproof coating to: seal a blacktop driveway.

e. To secure or prevent passage into and out of (an area). Often used with off: The police sealed off the crime scene.

2. To affix a seal to (something) in order to prove authenticity, accuracy, or quality.

3. To establish or determine irrevocably: Our fate was sealed.

4. Mormon Church To make (a marriage, for example) eternally binding; solemnize forever.

Idioms:

(one's) lips are sealed

Used to indicate that one will not disclose a piece of information.

under seal

Having an impression or emblem attesting to a document's authenticity and reliability.

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[Middle English, die or signet for stamping an impression, from Old French seel, from Vulgar Latin *sigellum, from Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum, sign, seal; see sek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

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seal′a·ble adj.

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seal ²

 (sēl)

n.

1. Any of various aquatic carnivorous mammals of the families Phocidae and Otariidae, found chiefly in cold regions and having a sleek torpedo-shaped body and limbs that are modified into paddlelike flippers.

2. The pelt or fur of one of these animals, especially a fur seal.

3. Leather made from the hide of one of these animals.

intr.v. sealed, seal·ing, seals

To hunt seals.

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[Middle English sele, from Old English seolh.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

sealed

(siːld)

vb

the past participle of seal¹

adj

(Civil Engineering) Austral and NZ (of a road) having a hard surface; made-up

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	sealed - established irrevocably; "his fate is sealed" certain unsealed, uncertain - not established or confirmed; "his doom is as yet unsealed"
	2.	sealed - closed or secured with or as if with a seal; "my lips are sealed"; "the package is still sealed"; "the premises are sealed" closed - not open or affording passage or access; "the many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains" unsealed - not closed or secured with or as if with a seal; "unsealed goods"; "the letter arrived unsealed"
	3.	sealed - undisclosed for the time being; "sealed orders"; "a sealed move in chess" concealed - hidden on any grounds for any motive; "a concealed weapon"; "a concealed compartment in his briefcase"
	4.	sealed - determined irrevocably; "his fate is sealed" irrevocable, irrevokable - incapable of being retracted or revoked; "firm and irrevocable is my doom"- Shakespeare
	5.	sealed - having been paved Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony paved - covered with a firm surface
	6.	sealed - covered with a waterproof coating; "a sealed driveway" covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"
	7.	sealed - (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster plastered covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"

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Translations

sigillato