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Closed vs Similar - What's the difference?

closed | similar |

As adjectives the difference between closed and similar

is that closed is sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open while similar is having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

As a verb closed

is (close).

As a noun similar is

that which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

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) ----

    similar

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
  • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
  • (mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of operations of rotation, translation and scaling.
  • Synonyms

    * (with common characteristics) akin, alike, comparable, identical, same, twin

    Antonyms

    * (alike) different, unlike

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
  • (homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease