Selled vs Sealed - What's the difference?

selled | sealed |

As verbs the difference between selled and sealed

is that selled is (nonstandard) (sell) while sealed is (seal).

As an adjective sealed is

closed by a seal.

selled

English

Verb

(head)

(nonstandard) (sell)

sell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sellen, from (etyl) , Icelandic selja.

Verb

(intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

* Bible, (w) xix. 21

If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A new prescription , passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}

(ergative) To be sold.

To promote a particular viewpoint.

(slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.

* (Charles Dickens)

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 12, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC

, title= Liverpool 2-1 Liverpool , passage=Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.}}

(professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

Antonyms

* buy

Derived terms

* sell-by date * sell-out * sell-outs * sell-through * sell down * sell down the river * sell ice to Eskimos * sell like hotcakes * sell one's soul * sell out * sell refrigerators to Eskimos * sell wolf tickets

Quotations

* To trick, or cheat someone. *

Noun

(en noun)

An act of selling.

This is going to be a tough sell .

An easy task.

* 1922': What a '''sell for Lena! - (Katherine Mansfield), ''The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)

(colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.

* 1919 ,

"Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."

Etymology 2

From (etyl) selle, from (etyl) sella.

Alternative forms

* selle (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A seat or stool.

(Fairfax)

(archaic) A saddle.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:

turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell , / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].

Anagrams

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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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