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  • verb transitive To enclose (something) in plastic wrapping and make an airtight seal by applying heat to fuse the edges of the wrapping together.

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Examples

  • It also offers advantages for packing and converting such as inherent deadfold and anti-static properties, high gloss and transparency, resistance to grease and oil, good barrier to gases and aromas, print receptive surface and a wide heat-seal range.

    Sonnentor Spices Move to Biodegradable Packaging 2009

  • It also offers advantages for packing and converting such as inherent deadfold and anti-static properties, high gloss and transparency, resistance to grease and oil, good barrier to gases and aromas, print receptive surface and a wide heat-seal range.

    7 posts from May 2009 2009

  • And if it's nylon-type mesh, I should be able to heat-seal the edges, if I'm careful - Thanks!

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • It also offers advantages for packing and converting such as inherent deadfold and anti-static properties, high gloss and transparency, resistance to grease and oil, good barrier to gases and aromas, print receptive surface and a wide heat-seal range.

    biodegradable 2009

  • It also offers advantages for packing and converting such as inherent deadfold and anti-static properties, high gloss and transparency, resistance to grease and oil, good barrier to gases and aromas, print receptive surface and a wide heat-seal range.

    packaging 2009

  • The Amcor NaturePlus heat-seal Materbi film is manufactured from renewable materials and is fully compostable.

    21 posts from September 2007 2007

  • The Amcor NaturePlus heat-seal Materbi film is manufactured from renewable materials and is fully compostable.

    Amcor Compostable Produce Packaging Debuts in UK 2007

  • It was also soon rendered obsolete for its original purpose, as a process to heat-seal cellophane packaging debuted.

    Sticky Stuff 2008

  • I also sympathize with the hot dish on a hot day issue - I once made pita bread on the hottest day of the year, using a gas stove that had a crappy heat-seal.

    Chicken and Dumplings ( Cook's Illustrated) Randi 2006

  • It was delicate work, because—working entirely by touch—he had to hold the pieces of his traumatized face together and heat-seal them, while at the same time keeping his fingers out of the way of the laser itself.

    Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997

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