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Repaired vs Sealed - What's the difference?

repaired | sealed |

As verbs the difference between repaired and sealed

is that repaired is (repair) while sealed is (seal).

As an adjective sealed is

closed by a seal.

repaired

English

Verb

(head)
  • (repair)
  • I repaired your automobile for you.

    repair

    English

    Etymology 1

    Coined between 1300 and 1350 from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of repairing something.
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  • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
  • The result of repairing something.
  • The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
  • Derived terms
    * disrepair

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
  • to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship
    to repair a shattered fortune
  • * Milton
  • secret refreshings that repair his strength
  • * Wordsworth
  • Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness.
  • To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
  • to repair a loss or damage
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * repairable / reparable, repairer

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Cognate to repatriate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
  • our annual repair to the mountains
  • * Clarendon
  • The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.
  • A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
  • * Dryden
  • There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transfer oneself to another place.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair .
  • *1850 , , (Jane Eyre)
  • *:I heard the visitors repair to their chambers.
  • *
  • *:That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde. I had nothing more exciting on hand than to wait for word from Von Lindowe. I sincerely hoped that it would not be long, for it is not my forte to sit twiddling my thumbs.
  • Derived terms
    * repatriate

    Etymology 3

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to pair again
  • sealed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (seal)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Closed by a seal.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=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.}}
  • Preventing entrance.
  • (computing, 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 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 * * tar-sealed * unsealed

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