Sealed vs Closed - What's the difference?
sealed | closed |
(seal)
Closed by a seal.
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(computing, object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open
(of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade
Not public.
(topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
(mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
(mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
(close)
As verbs the difference between sealed and closed
is that sealed is past tense of seal while closed is past tense of close.As adjectives the difference between sealed and closed
is that sealed is closed by a seal while closed is sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.sealed
English
Verb
(head)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.}}
Synonyms
* (preventing entrance) impermeableDerived terms
* heat-sealed * hermetically sealed * keep one's lips sealed * my lips are sealed * sealed battery * sealed-beam headlight * sealed bearing * sealed bid * sealed book * sealed cabin * sealed crustless sandwich * sealed earth * sealed indictment * sealed instrument * sealed jar technique * Sealed Knot * sealed off, sealed-off * sealed orders * sealed pattern * sealed porter * sealed record * sealed refrigeration compressor * sealed room * sealed round * sealed second-price auction * sealed server * sealed source * sealed system * sealed unit * sealed verdict * * tar-sealed * unsealedAnagrams
* *closed
English
Adjective
(-)- closed source
- a closed committee
- The set of integers is closed under addition: .
