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closed
[ klohzd ]
adjective
- having or forming a boundary or barrier:
He was blocked by a closed door.
The house had a closed porch.
- brought to a close; concluded:
It was a closed incident with no repercussions.
- not public; restricted; exclusive:
a closed meeting;
a closed bid at a private auction.
- not open to new ideas or arguments.
- self-contained; independent or self-sufficient:
a closed, symbiotic relationship.
- Phonetics. (of a syllable) ending with a consonant or a consonant cluster, as has, hasp. Compare open ( def 35b ).
- Linguistics. (of a class of items) limited in membership and not readily expanded to include new items, as the class of inflectional affixes, articles, pronouns, or auxiliaries ( open, def 36 ).
- Hunting, Angling. restricted as to the kind of game that may be legally taken and as to where or when it may be taken:
woods closed to deer hunters.
- Mathematics.
- (of a set in which a combining operation between members of the set is defined) such that performing the operation between members of the set produces a member of the set, as multiplication in the set of integers.
- (of an interval) containing both of its endpoints.
- (of a map from one topological space to another) having the property that the image of a closed set is a closed set.
- (of a curve) not having endpoints; enclosing an area.
- (of a surface) enclosing a volume.
- (of a function or operator) having as its graph a closed set.
closed
/ əʊ /
adjective
- blocked against entry; shut
- restricted; exclusive
- not open to question or debate
- (of a hunting season, etc) close
- maths
- (of a curve or surface) completely enclosing an area or volume
- (of a set) having members that can be produced by a specific operation on other members of the same set
the integers are a closed set under multiplication
- Alsochecked phonetics
- denoting a syllable that ends in a consonant
- another word for close 1
- not open to public entry or membership
the closed society of publishing
Other Word Forms
- -Dz adjective
- i·Dz adjective
- ɱ-Dz adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
In a since-deleted Facebook post, the farm team said they had closed the feeding experiences "due to unforeseen circumstances" and apologised to people who had booked, adding a full refund could be obtained.
Judge Everett said: "I'm glad it's closed. One can only hope that places like that are never ever opened again."
But behind closed doors it has accommodated some of Ankara's demands.
As a result, libraries, nonurgent health clinics and parks are closed.
Upton Lane remains closed both ways between Kitchener Road and Chaucer Road.
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