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Nearest vs Closet - What's the difference?

nearest | closet |

As adjectives the difference between nearest and closet

is that nearest is closest to, superlative of near while closet is secret.

As a preposition nearest

is closest to.

As a noun closet is

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

As a verb closet is

to shut away for private discussion.

nearest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Closest to, (near).
  • * 1843 , (Edgar Allan Poe), :
    • Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • closest to

    • Anagrams

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    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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