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Definition: Unsealed |
UnsealedAdjective1. Not established or confirmed; "his doom is as yet unsealed". 2. Not closed or secured with or as if with a seal; "unsealed goods"; "the letter arrived unsealed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unsealed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
Synonym: UnsealedSynonym: uncertain (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sealed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unsealed |
| English words defined with "unsealed": open, opened ♦ unopened, unseal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unsealed": AMPOULE SEALER ♦ KNIFE OPERATOR. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Unsealed (2003) | |
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Books | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was unsealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. |
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Political Rights | Tajikistan | Irregularities in a number of constituencies including proxy voting, unsealed ballot boxes, stuffed ballot boxes, votes added in favor of a particular party, lack of consistency between the sum of votes counted and the number of ballots issued, discrepancies between votes considered invalid during the count and the final result sheet, and blank copies of protocols signed before the counting of ballots and filled in with pencil during the count. (references) |
Travel | Barbados | Local letter rates are BDS$0.40 (US$0.20) for unsealed letters and BDS$0.45 (US$0.23) for sealed (Closed) letters, and BDS$1.15 (US$0.58) for letters to the United States. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unsealed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Unsealed" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 54.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unsealed": unsealed strip. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unsealed | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unsealed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 开启. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | uforseglet kilde (unsealed source), valg med aabne stemmesedler (unsealed ballot paper election), rullebane uden vandbeskyttelse (unsealed strip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | niet-gesloten bron (unsealed source), een niet geheime stemming (unsealed ballot paper election). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vettäläpäisevä kiitotie (unsealed strip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | source non-scellée (unsealed source), source non scellée (unsealed source), rayon désoperculé (uncapped comb, unsealed comb), piste non étanche (unsealed strip), élection bulletin ouvert (unsealed ballot paper election). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entsiegelte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κηρήθρα απολεπισμένη (uncapped comb, unsealed comb), μη στεγανοποιημένος διάδρομος (unsealed strip), ασφράγιστη πηγή (unsealed source). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | voto palese (unsealed ballot paper election), sorgente non sigillata (unsealed source), pista non impermeabilizzata (unsealed strip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 開き封 (unsealed mail), 開封 (breaking the seal, unsealed letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひらきふう (unsealed mail), かいふう (breaking the seal, sea breeze, unsealed letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ealedunsay pista permeável (unsealed strip), eleição com boletim aberto (unsealed ballot paper election). (various references) распечатывать незапечатанный. (various references) pista no impermeabilizada (unsealed strip). (various references) sonuçlandırılmamış, mühürsüz, açılmış (undone, unfastened), açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unsealed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enseamed, undetailed, unsaled, unseared, unsoaked, unstalled, unvealed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unsealed" (pronounced unsē"ld) |
| 6 | u n s ē" l d | concealed, unconcealed. |
| 4 | -s ē" l d | resealed, sealed. |
| 3 | -ē" l d | afield, appealed, congealed, field, healed, heeled, peeled, reeled, repealed, revealed, shield, wheeled, wield, yield. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unleased. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: unlades, unleads. | |
-2 letters: aeneus, aneled, aneles, elands, eludes, endues, ensued, ladens, leaden, leaned, leased, lensed, leudes, naleds, sealed, sendal, suldan, sundae, unease, unlade, unlead, unseal, usneae. | |
-3 letters: aedes, anele, dales, deals, deans, deles, denes, dense, duals, duels, dulse, dunes, eased, easel, eland, elans, elude, endue, ensue, laden, lades, lands, lanes, lased, lauds, leads. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: unleashed, unpleased. | |
+2 letters: encapsuled, launderers, ultradense. | |
+3 letters: adultnesses, durableness, heulandites, laundresses, laundrettes, neutralised, sensualized, unassembled, uncoalesced, underglazes, undervalues, undesirable. | |
+4 letters: aneuploidies, dreadfulness, dreamfulness, encapsulated, endonuclease, fraudulences, housecleaned, knuckleheads, laudableness, launderettes, nucleotidase, underclasses, undesirables. | |
+5 letters: andouillettes, candlesnuffer, dauntlessness, denaturalizes, denuclearizes, deregulations, desexualizing, durablenesses, endonucleases, gelandesprung, gradualnesses, harlequinades, languidnesses, nucleotidases, regardfulness, squalidnesses, subadolescent, supercalender, underclassmen, underlayments, understatedly, undescribable, unestablished, universalized, unspecialized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 65 61 6C 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... . .- .-.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01100101 01100001 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s e a l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0065 0061 006C 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580857167787170 |
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