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Closing   /klˈoʊzɪŋ/   Listen
Closing

adjective
1.
Final or ending.  "The closing weeks of the year" , "The closing scene of the film" , "Closing remarks"  Antonym: opening.
noun
1.
The act of closing something.  Synonym: shutting.  Antonym: opening.
2.
The last section of a communication.  Synonyms: close, conclusion, end, ending.
3.
Approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap.  Synonym: closure.
4.
Termination of operations.  Synonyms: closedown, closure, shutdown.
5.
A concluding action.  Synonyms: completion, culmination, mop up, windup.


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"  Antonym: open.
2.
Become closed.  Synonym: shut.  Antonym: open.
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"  Antonym: open.
4.
Finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.).  Antonym: open.
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.  Antonym: open.
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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"Closing" Quotes from Famous Books



... a sigh of relief. The gentle closing of the glass doors showed her that he had not only gone quite away but had shut her out in the garden so that she should be undisturbed. Now perhaps she ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim
... Johnstone. Other renderings are given by Scott, Maidment, and Buchan. In Scott's version the name of the English suitor is Lord Lochinvar, and both name and story the thieving poet has turned, as everybody knows, to excellent account. The two closing stanzas here seem to betray the hand of an English balladist. Weel-faur'd, well-favored. Lave, ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... about it than about aught else in the world; her quivering delight was to see it cast for her, her game to elude it; so mettlesome was she that she loved it to be cast fair that she might escape as it was closing round her; she scorned, however her heart might be beating, to run from her pursuers; she took only the one step backward, which still left her near them but always out of reach; her head on high now, but her face as friendly, her manner as gracious ...
— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie
... for the history of the closing scene. About the middle of October, 1862, Mrs. Webb, whose health seemed failing, went to visit her brother, Henry Marshall, Esq., residing in Cambridge. Here she suddenly became much worse, and the prospect of her recovery more and more ...
— A Walk from London to John O'Groat's • Elihu Burritt
... Cyclostome with a graceful spiral shell, tight-closed with a stony lid which is attached to the animal by a powerful muscle. The lid is a movable door which is quickly shut by the inmate's mere withdrawal into his house and as easily opened when the hermit goes forth. With this system of closing, the abode becomes inviolable; and the ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre


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