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Closed vs Closet - What's the difference?

closed | closet |

Closet is a alternative form of closed.



As adjectives the difference between closed and closet

is that closed is sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open while closet is secret.

As verbs the difference between closed and closet

is that closed is past tense of close while closet is to shut away for private discussion.

As a noun closet is

a piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored.

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) ----

    closet

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia closet) (en noun)
  • (chiefly, US) A piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored.
    • (Dryden)
  • A small private chamber.
  • * Goldsmith
    • a chair-lumbered closet , just twelve feet by nine
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 6
    • When thou prayest, enter into thy closet .
  • A toilet; a water closet.
  • (figuratively) The imagined closet in idioms such as in the closet or skeleton in the closet, a place to keep things hidden.
    • The'' 'closet''' can be a scary place for a gay teenager.

    Synonyms

    * (A piece of furniture) cupboard, wardrobe, press (British), locker, cabinet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Secret.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * closeted * closet oneself * come out of the closet * earth closet * in the closet * skeleton in the closet * water closet

    See also

    * come out * out

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shut away for private discussion.
    • The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
  • To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
  • * (rfdate) (Bancroft)
    • He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
  • * (rfdate) (Froude)
    • He had been closeted with De Quadra.
  • To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
  • * (rfdate) (Cowper)
    • Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.

    Anagrams

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