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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
The Portaferry Road was closed for several hours while crash investigators examined the scene but it has since been reopened.
The weigh-in took place behind closed doors at a London hotel on Friday.
Aberdeenshire Council said the health and wellbeing of pupils and staff was the top priority and it expected the school to remain closed on Friday.
Since it closed, 4,880 elements of spent fuel have been removed from the two nuclear reactors.
Popular destinations including Shake Shack, Red Lobster and Rubio’s Coastal Grill all closed locations last year amid a reduction in consumer spending driven by inflation.
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