verb
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To hunt seals.
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They're organizing a protest against sealing.
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To place a seal on (a document).
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To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.
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to seal silverware
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To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.
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The cover is sealed. If anyone tries to open it, we'll know about it.
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To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).
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The border has been sealed until the fugitives are found.
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To close securely to prevent leakage.
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I've sealed the bottle to keep the contents fresh.
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To place in a sealed container.
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I've sealed the documents in this envelope.
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To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.
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After thinking for half an hour, the champion sealed his move.
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To guarantee.
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The last-minute goal sealed United’s win.
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To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement or plaster, etc.
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To close by means of a seal.
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to seal a drainpipe with water
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To confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
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To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
adjective
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Closed by a seal.
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Preventing entrance.
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Of a road that has an asphalt or macadamised surface.
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Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
Examples of sealed in a Sentence
She glanced down at the sealed envelope in her hand.
The mine was sealed up for years.
The basement contained a sealed room that we soundproofed.
They shook, and their deal was sealed with the magic of Gabriel.
The mine was sealed, a new metal door and padlock in place where the gaping opening had welcomed the Deans two days before.
She filled the bladder with wine, sealed it, and shook it to mix the contents.
The two worlds were sealed after the Schism.
Whatever she'd accidentally done to him in the alley, she'd sealed them together in a way he never thought possible.
The deal of my mate is sealed with my magic.
The Lucky Pup has apparently been sealed up for the last forty years until someone—kids, we think—broke into the mine this spring.
The robed man dropped her body on the bed, sealed the cage, and turned to Rhyn.
The decontamination chamber sealed itself.
The camp was being broken down quickly, with pallets already loaded and sealed, awaiting evacuation.
My fate is sealed, Rhyn. I've got nothing to lose now. If she comes back, I can distract her, give you until midnight.
Ten days after he sealed the statutes, on the 12th of April 1443, Chicheley died and was buried in Canterbury cathedral on the north side of the choir, under a fine effigy of himself erected in his lifetime.
It was publicly sealed and witnessed by professional witnesses, as well as by collaterally interested parties.
The decision given was embodied in writing, sealed and witnessed by the judges, the elders, witnesses and a scribe.
Edward III., by the Statute Staple of 1353, declared Carmarthen the sole staple for Wales, ordering that every bale of Welsh wool should be sealed or "cocketed" here before it left the Principality.
They suffered a defeat at Schwechat on the 30th of October, which sealed the fate of the revolutionists in Vienna and thus precipitated a conflict a outrance in Hungary itself.
Leber experimented with several chemical compounds to find what reaction they had on these cells; by using fine glass tubes sealed at the outer end and containing a chemical substance, and by introducing the open end into the blood vessels he found that the leucocytes were attracted - positive chemiotaxis - by the various compounds of mercury, copper, turpentin, and other substances.
Previously consumptive individuals were carefully excluded from contact with fresh air, and were advised to live in rooms almost hermetically sealed and kept at a high temperature.
Jonny gasped, but Dusty nodded, aware his fate was sealed.
Your deal is sealed by the Dark One.
They're all locked and sealed!
We dated the bones in the sixties based on circumstances—when we thought the mine was being worked and when it was sealed.
All five are sealed.
Another small smile crossed her face, and she sat down. Gabe left her, knowing even if she did sleep, it wouldn't be long. Death may have ignored their presence in her domain for three days, but something had made her reach out to him now. He knew they'd have problems at some point and only hoped he could get Katie out of the underworld, before his own fate was sealed.
Of course, if Jonny had his way, her fate was already sealed.
Down the inner test tube pass four copper strips having platinum wires at their ends sealed through the glass.
This plate is supported by a platinum wire sealed through the glass.
A highly insulated tube contains a little mercury, which is used as a negative electrode, and the tube also has sealed through the glass a platinum wire carrying an iron plate as an anode.
The report, however, sealed the fate of the Giolitti cabinet, and on the 24th of November it resigned amid general execration.
It should be mentioned that, although the charter was evidently not sealed until the 19th, the four existing copies of it are dated the 15th, the day on which John accepted the articles.
There are at present in existence four copies of Magna Carta, sealed with the great seal of King John, and several unsealed copies.
The two other sealed copies belong to the cathedrals of Lincoln and of Salisbury.
The request was granted and the campaign proved successful, the alliance being sealed by the marriage of Burgred to ZEthelswith, daughter of ZEthelwulf.
The bond with Lamberton was now sealed by blood, and the confederates lost no time in putting it into execution.
He then gave a sealed paper to Ayaz, begging him to hand it to the sultan in a leisure moment after 20 days had elapsed, and set off on his travels with no better equipment than his staff and a dervish's cloak.
The expedition which settled Jamestown rounded this peninsula (April 26, 1607), opened its sealed instructions here, and named the peninsula Poynt Comfort, in recognition of the sheltered harbour.
With the frequent remarriages of the heiresses of the kingdom, relationships grew confused and family quarrels frequent; and when Sibylla carried the crown to Guy de Lusignan, a newcomer disliked by all the relatives of the crown, she sealed the fate of the kingdom.
St Paul's in 1396; and the doom of Sir John Oldcastle was sealed at the latter place in 1413.
Difficultly volatile liquids may be weighed directly into the boat; volatile liquids are weighed in thin hermetically sealed bulbs, the necks of which are broken just before they are placed in the combustion tube.
In this method the operation is carried out in a hard glass tube sealed at one end and packed as shown in fig.
The halogens may be estimated by ignition with quicklime, or by heating with nitric acid and silver nitrate in a sealed tube.
This tube was placed in an outer tube containing the liquid to be experimented with; the liquid is raised to its boiling-point, and then hermetically sealed.
When the news arrived in England it sealed his fate.
It was discovered by chance in 1858, having been until then hermetically sealed by a mass of limestone breccia.
The defeat at Elchingen on the 14th of October sealed the fate of the Austrians, though Mack was still determined to endure a siege.
In the new prosperity of the land the union of Yahweh and his people shall be sealed anew, and so the Lord will proceed to pour down further and higher blessings.
Proetus thereupon sent him to Iobates, his wife's father, king of Lycia, with a letter or sealed tablet, in which were instructions, apparently given by means of signs, to take the life of the bearer.