Sealed vs Airtight - What's the difference?
sealed | airtight |
(seal)
Closed by a seal.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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(computing, object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
Being impermeable to air or other gases.
(figuratively) Having no weak points or flaws.
(figuratively, of a person) Highly reserved in some matter, particularly tight-lipped or tight-fisted.
* 1908 , The Plumbers Trade Journal , Plumbers’ Trade Journal Publishing Company, volume 44:
* 1915 April, Annals of Iowa , Historical Department of Iowa, series 3, volume 12, page 599:
As adjectives the difference between sealed and airtight
is that sealed is closed by a seal while airtight is being impermeable to air or other gases.As a verb sealed
is past tense of seal.sealed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)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.}}
Synonyms
* (preventing entrance) impermeableDerived 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 * unsealedAnagrams
* *airtight
English
Alternative forms
* air-tight * air tightAdjective
(en adjective)- We have an airtight argument they won’t be able to punch holes in.
- when Roger asked for $100 to take the preliminary steps to establish his claim, Mike yelled like a Hebrew auctioneer, for he was air-tight and squeezed a dollar until the woman on it yelled.
- He was ‘air-tight ,’ close-mouthed, and had but few confidants or intimate friends, but numerous acquaintances.
