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SEALED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of walls) covered with a coat of plaster
Synonyms:
plastered; sealed
Classified under:
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Covered with a waterproof coating
Example:
a sealed driveway
Classified under:
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having been paved
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
paved (covered with a firm surface)
Domain region:
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)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Determined irrevocably
Example:
his fate is sealed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
irrevocable; irrevokable (incapable of being retracted or revoked)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Closed or secured with or as if with a seal
Example:
the premises are sealed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unopened (not yet opened or unsealed)
Also:
closed (not open or affording passage or access)
Antonym:
unsealed (not closed or secured with or as if with a seal)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Established irrevocably
Example:
his fate is sealed
Synonyms:
certain; sealed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
unsealed (not established or confirmed)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Undisclosed for the time being
Example:
a sealed move in chess
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
concealed (hidden on any grounds for any motive)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb seal
Context examples:
Marianne's was finished in a very few minutes; in length it could be no more than a note; it was then folded up, sealed, and directed with eager rapidity.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A sterilization process that uses ethylene oxide gas enclosed within a sealed bag to kill microorganisms.
(Ethylene Oxide-in-a-Bag Sterilization, NCI Thesaurus)
A type of internal radiation therapy in which radioactive material sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters is placed directly into a tumor or body tissue.
(Interstitial radiation therapy, NCI Dictionary)
A flexible container for semisolid drug products which is flattened and crimped or sealed at one end and has a reclosable opening at the other.
(Packaging Tube, NCI Thesaurus)
A type of radiation therapy in which radioactive material sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters is placed directly into or near a tumor.
(Brachytherapy, NCI Dictionary)
A container capable of being hermetically sealed, intended to hold sterile materials.
(Ampule, NCI Thesaurus)
Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty’s auspicious reign.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I was already a dying and a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This is a tell-tale sign that the dwarf galaxy came in on a really eccentric orbit and its fate was sealed.
(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)
A soft hope blest with my sorrow that soon I should dare to drop a kiss on that brow of rock, and on those lips so sternly sealed beneath it: but not yet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
