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Closed vs Cloyed - What's the difference?

closed | cloyed |

As verbs the difference between closed and cloyed

is that closed is (close) while cloyed is (cloy).

As an adjective closed

is sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.

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

    * (l) ----

    cloyed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cloy)

    • cloy

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  • To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
  • To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}

    Synonyms

    * (fill or choke up) block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up * (satiate) fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up * (fill to loathing) jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit