different between select vs closed

English

Etymology

From Latin s?l?ctus, perfect passive participle of s?lig? (“choose out, select”), from s?- (“without; apart”) + leg? (“gather, select”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: se?lect

Adjective

select (comparative more select, superlative most select)

1. Privileged, specially selected.
   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

2. Of high quality; top-notch.

Translations

Verb

select (third-person singular simple present selects, present participle selecting, simple past and past participle selected)

1. To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.

   He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.

   The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.

2. (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

Synonyms

• (to choose): choose, opt

Antonyms

• deselect

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• celest, elects, scelet

Romanian

Etymology

From French select.

Adjective

select m or n (feminine singular select?, masculine plural selec?i, feminine and neuter plural selecte)

1. select

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kl??zd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /klo?zd/
• Rhymes: -??zd

Adjective

closed (not comparable)

1. Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.
2. (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade.
3. Not public.

4. (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
5. (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.

6. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
7. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same, forming a closed loop.
8. (phonology) Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/.
9. (phonology) Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /?/ in pin.

Synonyms

• shut

Antonyms

• (also phonetics (of vowels, syllables)): open

Derived terms

• a closed mouth catches no flies
• a closed mouth gathers no feet

Translations

See also

• close

Verb

closed

1. simple past tense and past participle of close

Anagrams

• Dolces, codels, codles, dolces

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?s?d/

Noun

closed m (plural closedau)

1. Alternative form of closet

Mutation