Sealed vs Swaled - What's the difference?
sealed | swaled |
(seal)
Closed by a seal.
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(computing, object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
(swale)
A low tract of moist or marshy land.
A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
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A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
(melt and waste away, or singe)
As verbs the difference between sealed and swaled
is that sealed is (seal) while swaled is (swale).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
* *swaled
English
Verb
(head)swale
English
Etymology 1
, from (etyl), "shade", perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to (etyl) svalrNoun
(en noun)- Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left.