verb
- Move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut.
- usage: "Close the door"; "shut the window"
- Become closed.
- usage: "The windows closed with a loud bang"
- Cease to operate or cause to cease operating.
- usage: "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P. M."; "close up the shop"
- synonyms: close up, close, fold, shut down, close down
- Finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.. )
- usage: "The meeting was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board"
- synonyms: close
- Come to a close.
- usage: "The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin"
- Complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement.
- usage: "We closed on the house on Friday"; "They closed the deal on the building"
- synonyms: close
- Be priced or listed when trading stops.
- usage: "The stock market closed high this Friday"; "My new stocks closed at $59 last night"
- synonyms: close
- Engage at close quarters.
- usage: "close with the enemy"
- synonyms: close
- Cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop.
- synonyms: close
- Change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact.
- synonyms: close
- Come together, as if in an embrace.
- usage: "Her arms closed around her long lost relative"
- synonyms: close, come together
- Draw near.
- usage: "The probe closed with the space station"
- synonyms: close
- Bring together all the elements or parts of.
- usage: "Management closed ranks"
- synonyms: close
- Bar access to.
- usage: "Due to the accident, the road had to be closed for several hours"
- synonyms: close
- Fill or stop up.
- usage: "Can you close the cracks with caulking"
- Unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of.
- usage: "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella"
- Finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead.
- usage: "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning"
- synonyms: close
adjective
- Not open or affording passage or access.
- usage: "the many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains"
- Set theory. ( of an interval that contains both its endpoints)
- Not open.
- usage: "the door slammed shut"
- Used especially of mouth or eyes.
- usage: "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight"
- synonyms: shut
- Requiring union membership.
- usage: "a closed shop"
- With shutters closed.
- Not open to the general public.
- usage: "a closed meeting"
- Not having an open mind.
- usage: "a closed mind unreceptive to new ideas"
- synonyms: unsympathetic
- Blocked against entry.
- usage: "a closed porch"
- synonyms: closed in
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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