Sealed vs Seeled - What's the difference?
sealed | seeled |
(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.
(seel)
(UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
(UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
(falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
* J. Reading
(by extension) To blind.
(intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
* Samuel Pepys
As verbs the difference between sealed and seeled
is that sealed is past tense of seal while seeled is past tense of seel.As an adjective sealed
is closed by a 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
* *seeled
English
Verb
(head)seel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- the seel of the day
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), .Verb
(en verb)- Fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
Etymology 4
Compare (etyl) , and (etyl) (m) (transitive verb).Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Walter Raleigh)