SEQUESTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sequestered mean? 

• SEQUESTERED (adjective)
  The adjective SEQUESTERED has 2 senses:

1. providing privacy or seclusion

2. kept separate and secluded

  Familiarity information: SEQUESTERED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEQUESTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providing privacy or seclusion

Synonyms:

cloistered; reclusive; secluded; sequestered

Context example:

a secluded romantic spot

Similar:

private (confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Kept separate and secluded

Context example:

a sequestered jury

Similar:

segregated; unintegrated (separated or isolated from others or a main group)

 Context examples 

Fragmentation changes how ecosystems function, reduces the amounts of nutrients retained and the amount of carbon sequestered and has other deleterious effects.

(Shrinking habitats have adverse effects on world ecosystems, NSF)

Phosphorylated BAD binds to 14-3-3 and is sequestered in the cytoplasm.

(BAD Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Briefly, sequence-specific probes are hybridized to cells fixed on slides and the sequestered probe is visualized by a peroxidase reaction.

(Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization, NCI Thesaurus)

The process whereby cellular proteins are positioned and sequestered in the correct cellular compartment for proper function.

(Intracellular Protein Transport, NCI Thesaurus)

Elevated cGMP levels in smooth muscle activate cGMP-dependent kinase activity that leads to release of sequestered Ca2+.

(Isosorbide, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers suggest that, on Titan, the reactions occur inside the ice particles, sequestered from the atmosphere.

(Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan, NASA)

The research showed that while concentrations of black carbon aerosols near the surface of the valley floor are low, locally produced black carbon may stay sequestered in the upper layers of soils near field camps until it is disturbed and distributed by high winds, including the so-called Foehn wind event, a warm southerly wind that occurred during the study period.

(Soot transported from elsewhere in world contributes little to melting of some Antarctic glaciers, National Science Foundation)

They loved their sequestered home.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Burdened with the guilty consciousness of the sequestered tarts, and fearing that Dodo's sharp eyes would pierce the thin disguise of cambric and merino which hid their booty, the little sinners attached themselves to 'Dranpa', who hadn't his spectacles on.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them along the road; or when, while Adele played with her nurse, and Mrs. Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line—that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen—that then I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)