Difference between Certain and Sealed

What is the difference between Certain and Sealed?

Certain as an adjective is sure, positive, not doubting. while Sealed as an adjective is closed by a seal.

Certain

Part of speech: determiner

Definition: Having been determined but unspecified. The quality of some particular subject or object which is known by the speaker to have been specifically singled out among similar entities of its class.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Sure, positive, not doubting.

Example sentence: Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

Sealed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To hunt seals.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Closed by a seal.Preventing entrance.Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.

Example sentence: People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.

We hope you now know whether to use Certain or Sealed in your sentence.

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