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Closed   /kloʊzd/   Listen
Closed

adjective
1.
Not open or affording passage or access.  "Our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains"
2.
(set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints.
3.
Not open.  Synonyms: shut, unopen.
4.
Used especially of mouth or eyes.  Synonym: shut.  "His eyes were shut against the sunlight"
5.
Requiring union membership.
6.
With shutters closed.
7.
Not open to the general public.
8.
Not having an open mind.  Synonym: unsympathetic.
9.
Blocked against entry.  Synonym: closed in.


Close

verb
(past & past part. closed; pres. part. closing)
1.
Move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut.  Synonym: shut.  "Shut the window"
2.
Become closed.  Synonym: shut.
3.
Cease to operate or cause to cease operating.  Synonyms: close down, close up, fold, shut down.  "My business closes every night at 8 P.M." , "Close up the shop"
4.
Finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.).
5.
Come to a close.  Synonym: conclude.
6.
Complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement.  "They closed the deal on the building"
7.
Be priced or listed when trading stops.  "My new stocks closed at $59 last night"
8.
Engage at close quarters.
9.
Cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop.
10.
Change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact.
11.
Come together, as if in an embrace.  Synonym: come together.
12.
Draw near.
13.
Bring together all the elements or parts of.
14.
Bar access to.
15.
Fill or stop up.  Synonym: fill up.
16.
Unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of.  Synonym: close up.  "Close a wound" , "Close a book" , "Close up an umbrella"
17.
Finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead.



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"Closed" Quotes from Famous Books



... a while after the door was closed, but the girl soon took her leave. He was just falling asleep in the luxury of conscious repose, when the sound of the cobbler's hammer for a moment roused him, and he knew the old man was again at work on his behalf. A moment ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald
... l'Observatoire, having a stuccoed front, ornamented with antique busts, and a large unkept garden attached to it. That facade and that garden were the first images my child-eyes perceived; and they will be the last, no doubt, which I still see through my closed eyelids when the Inevitable Day comes. For it was in that house that I was born; it was in that garden I first learned, while playing, to feel and know some particles of this old universe. Magical hours!—sacred ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France
... outskirts of the town of Barnstable. There were two crabbed little windows in front, for it could boast of but one story, and a narrow green door, over which a prairie rose bush clustered, as if to hide its infirmity. A small window, reminding one of a half closed jacknife, and in which were two earthen flower pots containing mignonnette, set jauntily upon the roof, which was so covered with black moss, that it was impossible to tell whether it was shingled or tiled. Indeed such was the shattered condition of the little tenement, ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"
... sick," he said, and we saw that it was with difficulty that he restrained his tears. As he opened the door a bit wider to let us in, we saw that a black shawl had been placed over the only window in the room, so that it was extremely difficult after the door was closed for our unaccustomed eyes to see anything in ...
— Paula the Waldensian • Eva Lecomte
... evident that they had assembled in the role of spectators only, and that action had been left to more competent and better organized men. There was no shouting, no demonstration, and so little talking that it amounted only to a low murmur. Already the doors of the jail had been closed. The armed forces on the roof ...
— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White


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