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Unsealed

Definition: Unsealed

Unsealed

Adjective

1. 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: Unsealed

Synonym: uncertain (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: sealed (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unsealed

English words defined with "unsealed": open, openedunopened, unseal. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unsealed": AMPOULE SEALERKNIFE OPERATOR. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unsealed

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Unsealed (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unsealed

DomainTitle

Books

  • Final Mysteries Unsealed (reference)

  • The Last Days Unsealed (reference)

  • Two Views of the Millennium: The Apocalypse/The Unsealed Book [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

  • Unsealed Fountain: Essays on the Christian Spiritual Tradition (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Unsealed

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It was unsealed and contained four letters, also unsealed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unsealed

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Unsealed

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)54.55%6143,867
Lexical Verb (past participle)36.36%4175,879
Lexical Verb (past tense)9.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%11N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Unsealed

Expression using "unsealed": unsealed strip. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unsealed

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unsealed

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unsealed

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

   

Portuguese

  

pista permeável (unsealed strip), eleição com boletim aberto (unsealed ballot paper election). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

распечатывать незапечатанный. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pista no impermeabilizada (unsealed strip). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unsealed

Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Unsealed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unsealed" (pronounced unsē"ld)
6u n s ē" l dconcealed, unconcealed.
4-s ē" l dresealed, sealed.
3-ē" l dafield, appealed, congealed, field, healed, heeled, peeled, reeled, repealed, revealed, shield, wheeled, wield, yield.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unsealed

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Unsealed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 73 65 61 6C 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ...    .    .-    .-..    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110011 01100101 01100001 01101100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#101 &#97 &#108 &#101 &#100

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580857167787170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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