Closed

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having boundaries; enclosed: a closed corridor between the two buildings.
  • adj. Blocked or barred to passage or entry: a closed port.
  • adj. Explicitly limited; restricted: closed membership.
  • adj. Self-contained or self-sufficient: a closed relationship.
  • adj. Barred to the public; conducted in secrecy: a closed session of the judiciary committee.
  • adj. Mathematics Of or relating to a curve, such as a circle, having no endpoints.
  • adj. Mathematics Of or relating to a surface having no boundary curves.
  • adj. Mathematics Of or relating to an interval containing both its endpoints.
  • adj. Mathematics Characterized by or possessing the property by which an operation acting on an element in a set produces an element within the set.
  • adj. Computer Science Of or relating to a file that cannot be accessed.
  • adj. Electricity Allowing electricity to flow or pass: a closed switch.
  • adj. Linguistics Ending in a consonant: a closed syllable.
  • adj. Sports Having the forward foot closer to the intended point of impact with the ball than the rear foot: a closed batting stance.
  • adj. Sports Held or swung with the top or outer edge of the striking face pointing slightly closer to the objective than the lower or inner edge: The club face was closed when it hit the ball, causing a hook.
  • adj. Physics Relating to a model of the universe in which the mass of the universe is sufficient to halt its expansion, and in which its curvature resembles that of a sphere, such that an object moving in a straight line would eventually return to its starting point.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open
  • adj. Not operating or conducting trade
  • adj. Non public (as in closed source)
  • adj. Having an open complement.
  • adj. Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
  • adj. Lacking a free variable.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of close.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. having an opening obstructed.
  • adj. of a curve or surface: having no end points or boundary curves; of a set: having members that can be produced by a specific operation on other members of the same set; of an interval: containing both its endpoints.
  • adj. Being in a position to obstruct an opening; -- especially of doors.
  • adj. having skin drawn so as to obstruct the opening; -- used of mouth or eyes. Opposite of open.
  • adj. requiring union membership; -- of a workplace.
  • adj. closed with shutters.
  • adj. hidden from the public.
  • adj. not open to the general public.
  • adj. unsympathetic; -- of a person's attitude.
  • adj. surrounded by walls.
  • adj. made compact by bending or doubling over.
  • adj. closed or fastened with or as if with buttons.
  • adj. not engaged in activity; -- of an organization or business establishment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. with shutters closed
  • adj. not open
  • adj. (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints
  • adj. not open or affording passage or access
  • adj. requiring union membership
  • adj. not having an open mind
  • adj. blocked against entry
  • adj. not open to the general public
  • adj. used especially of mouth or eyes
  • Equivalent
    shuttered    stoppered    nonopening    blocked    out of use    drawn    union    unreceptive    enclosed    restricted   
    Antonym
    open   
    Cross Reference
    agree    narrow    accurate    particular    thick    compact    approximate    confined    hidden    reticent   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unsympathetic    embrace    clinch    grapple    gripe    tight    snug    closet    shu    inclosure   
    Verb Stem
    close   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    composed    decomposed    deposed    disclosed    disposed    dozed    enclosed    exposed    foreclosed    hosed