Private vs Secure - What's the difference?
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Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Not in governmental office or employment.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Not publicly known; not open; secret.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
Intended only for the use of an individual, group, or organization.
Not accessible by the public.
Not traded by the public.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Secretive; reserved.
(US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
The lowest rank of the army.
A soldier of the rank of private.
(in plural privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals.
(obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
(obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
* Shakespeare
A private lesson.
Free from attack or danger; protected.
Free from the danger of theft; safe.
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
* Dryden
Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of .
* Milton
Overconfident; incautious; careless.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
* Dryden
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
* T. Dick
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
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As adjectives the difference between private and secure
is that private is belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group while secure is free from attack or danger; protected.As a noun private
is the lowest rank of the army.As a verb secure is
to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.private
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private -equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Synonyms
* (done in the view of others ): secluded * (intended only for one's own use ): personal * (not accessible by the public ):Antonyms
* publicNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Nor must I be unmindful of my private .
- Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private .
- What have kings, that privates have not too?
- If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates .
Synonyms
* (genitals) bits, private partsDerived terms
* in private * privacy * private language * private parts * private property * private stock * public-private partnershipStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----secure
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Alternative forms
* secuer (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
- secure of a welcome
- Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
- (Macaulay)
Antonyms
* insecureDerived terms
* securelyVerb
(secur)- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
- to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
- to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
- to secure an estate
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
- "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress."
(Flight, 1911, p. 766)
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
