different between closeted vs apart

English

Etymology 1

closet (“state of concealment”) +? -ed

Adjective

closeted (comparative more closeted, superlative most closeted)

1. (informal) Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.
   • 1992, Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995, Part Two: Perestroika, Act One, Scene 4, p. 156,

     Belize: Get out your oven mitts. Guess who just checked in with the troubles? The Killer Queen Herself. New York's number one closeted queer.

2. (by extension) Not open about some aspect of one's identity, tendency or fondness; secret.
   • 1971, Cynthia Ozick, "The Pagan Rabbi" in Collected Stories, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, p. 12,

     […] the remaining quotations, chiefly from English poetry, interested me only slightly more. They were the elegiac favourites of a closeted Romantic.

   • 1982, Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity, Penguin, 1988, p. 45,

     Now he feels a connection between his own closeted, esoteric sufferings and strivings and those of the poor urban working people all around him.

Synonyms

• (not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity): in the closet

Hyponyms

• (not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity): stealth

Translations

Etymology 2

See closet (verb)

Verb

closeted

1. simple past tense and past participle of closet

Adjective

closeted (not comparable)

1. Confined.

   He's spent all day closeted in his room.

   • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, London: J.C. Nimmo, 1886, Chapter X, p. 68, [1]

     After they had been closeted up with the fortune-teller for some time, I knew by their looks, upon their returning, that they had been promised something great.

   • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Chapter XI, New York: D. Appleton & Co., p. 94, [2]

     It was a winter evening of transparent clearness, with an innocent young moon above the house-tops; and he wanted to fill his soul's lungs with the pure radiance, and not exchange a word with any one till he and Mr. Letterblair were closeted together after dinner.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 17, [3]

     Now when the Foretopman found himself closeted there, as it were, in the cabin with the Captain and Claggart, he was surprised enough.

2. Sheltered, protected
   • 1985, Charles Irving, Hansard, 25 January, 1985, [4]

     In my salubrious constituency of Cheltenham and in the leafy lanes of Gloucestershire, we are perhaps somewhat closeted from these unpleasant and harsh realities of the urban world of London, Plymouth, Birmingham and other major cities

Synonyms

• (confined): confined, holed up

English

Etymology

From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??(?)t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p??t/, enPR: ?-pärt?
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Adverb

apart (comparative more apart, superlative most apart)

1. Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
2. separately, exclusively, not together

3. Aside; away; not included.
4. In or into two or more parts.

Synonyms

• (in a state of separation): independently, separately; see also Thesaurus:individually
• (in or into two or more parts): asunder, in twain; see also Thesaurus:asunder

Antonyms

• together

Derived terms

Translations

Postposition

apart

1. (following its objective complement) Apart from.

Synonyms

• bar, except for; see also Thesaurus:except

Translations

Adjective

apart (not comparable)

1. (Used after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct.

2. Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.

Noun

apart

1. Misspelling of a part.

References

apart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• prata, rap at

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch apart, from Middle French a part.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?part/

Adjective

apart (attributive aparte, comparative aparter, superlative apartste)

1. separate

Derived terms

• apartheid

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French a part.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??p?rt/
• Hyphenation: apart
• Rhymes: -?rt

Adjective

apart (comparative aparter, superlative apartst)

1. separate

2. unusual

Inflection

Derived terms

• apartheid

Descendants

• Afrikaans: apart

Anagrams

• praat, raapt

German

Etymology

From French à part.

Pronunciation

Adjective

apart (comparative aparter, superlative am apartesten)

1. fancy, distinctive

Declension

Further reading

• “apart” in Duden online

Latvian

Etymology

From ap- +? art (“to plow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [apâ?t]

Verb

apart (tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. aparu, apar, apar, past aparu)

1. (perfective) to till (land, field) by plowing

2. to overturn (an obstacle) while plowing; to overturn (an obstacle) and plow

3. to cover (e.g., planted potatoes) with earth by plowing around, by deepening the furrows; to furrow

4. (perfective) to plow around (to change direction around something while plowing; to plow the area around something)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (till land): uzart
• (plow around): art
• noart
• uzart