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Closed vs Ajar - What's the difference?

closed | ajar |

As adjectives the difference between closed and ajar

is that closed is sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open while ajar is slightly turned or opened.

As verbs the difference between closed and ajar

is that closed is past tense of close while ajar is to turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.

As an adverb ajar is

slightly turned or opened.

As a noun Ajar is

a member of an ethnographic group of Georgians.

closed

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open
  • (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade
  • Not public.
    • closed source
    a closed committee
  • (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
  • (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
    • The set of integers is closed under addition: \forall x,y\in\mathbb{Z}\,x+y\in\mathbb{Z}.
  • (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.

    • Synonyms

    * shut

    See also

    * close

    Verb

    (head)
  • (close)

    • Anagrams

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    ajar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ajar, . See char.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Slightly turned or opened.
    • The door was standing ajar.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Slightly turned or opened.
    • The door is ajar.
    When is a door not a door? When it is ajar .
    The pantry door was ajar , so I opened it and took out the jamb.

    Verb

    (ajarr)
  • To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
  • * 1970 , John H. Evans, Mercer County law journal , Volume 10,
    • A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.
  • * 1977 , Bill Reed, Dogod ,
    • Yes, and the door also lops off stairs leading to a landing on whose landing is another door on whose hinges much of this story ajars , if it hasn't jarred too much already.
  • * 2007 , Loki, Shard of the Ancient ,
    • Just as the gates fully ajarred themselves, the Lamborghini soared through them, and out into the freedom of the poorly defined road.

    Etymology 2

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (label) Out of harmony.
  • Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.14:
    • There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar [...].

    Verb

  • To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
  • * 1907 , The English Illustrated Magazine , Volume 36,
    • It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring ; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.

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