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Closure vs Seizure - What's the difference?

closure | seizure |

In obsolete terms the difference between closure and seizure

is that closure is that which encloses or confines; an enclosure while seizure is retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.

As nouns the difference between closure and seizure

is that closure is an event or occurrence that signifies an ending while seizure is the act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.

closure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
  • A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
  • A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
  • (computer science) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
  • (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
  • (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
  • The act of shutting; a closing.
    • the closure of a door, or of a chink
  • That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.
  • (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • O thou bloody prison / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.
  • A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.

    • Hyponyms

    * (device) clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye

    Troponyms

    * (computer science) thunk

    See also

    * cloture

    Anagrams

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    seizure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (Search and seizure) (wikipedia seizure)
  • The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.
    • the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
    The search warrant permitted the seizure of evidence.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VII
    • As yet there had been no alarm of fever. The three seizures had excited some comment, however, and had it not been for the counter-excitement of the burning ship, it is possible that Pine's precaution would have been thrown away
  • A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).
    • He fell to the floor and convulsed when the epilectic seizure occurred.
  • A sudden onset of pain or emotion.
    • He felt the sudden seizure of pain as the heart attack began.
  • (obsolete) retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership
  • * Dryden
    • Make o'er thy honour by a deed of trust, / And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.
  • That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.