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Sealed vs Jammed - What's the difference?

sealed | jammed |

As verbs the difference between sealed and jammed

is that sealed is (seal) while jammed is (jam).

As adjectives the difference between sealed and jammed

is that sealed is closed by a seal while jammed is stuck.

sealed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (seal)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Closed by a seal.
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    • , 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

    Anagrams

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    jammed

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Stuck.
    • The window is jammed shut.
    How to treat a jammed finger or toe.
    The printer is still jammed'''. Make sure that all the '''jammed paper is removed.
    The ship was jammed between two rocks.
  • Overcrowded; congested
    • Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed .
    ''These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.
    A jammed Oktoberfest beer tent.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (jam)