closed

adjective

1. not comparable Made impassable. A closed and locked door prevented my escape.
2. not comparable Sealed or covered. Her eyes were tightly closed.
3. not comparable Physically drawn together, folded or contracted. A book lay closed on the table.
4. not comparable, of valve or damper In a position preventing fluid from flowing.
5. not comparable Not available for use or operation. Phone lines are now closed.
6. not comparable, of a store or business Not operating or conducting trade. Banks are closed on bank holidays.
7. not comparable Not allowing entrance to visitors or the public. The museum is closed for the Christmas holidays.
8. not comparable Not receptive. He is closed to new ideas.
9. not comparable Not public. closed source  a closed committee  The bill is being considered by the committee in closed session.
10. not comparable Of a competition or tournament: with the competitors restricted to a specific group, such as professionals, amateurs, members or residents.
11. not comparable, usually, of a file Not in current use; not connected to as a resource. Make sure that all files are closed before you switch off the computer.
12. not comparable Settled; decided or determined; withdrawn from consideration. This subject is now closed.
13. not comparable Having one end joined to the other, forming a completed loop. a closed curve, a closed circuit
14. not comparable, of a switch or circuit breaker In a position allowing electricity to flow.
15. not comparable, of a walk Whose first and last vertices are the same, forming a closed loop.
16. not comparable, of a set Having an open complement.
17. not comparable, of a set Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it. The set of integers is closed under addition: #92;forallx,y#92;in#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;,#92;,x#43;y#92;in#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;.
18. not comparable, of a formula Lacking a free variable.
19. not comparable, of a curve Lacking endpoints. For parametric curves, with the same image for the ends of the domain.
20. not comparable, of a surface Lacking a boundary.
21. not comparable Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/.
22. not comparable Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /ɪ/ in pin.
23. not comparable, of a multi word compound Having component words joined together without spaces or hyphens; for example, timeslot as opposed to time slot or time-slot.
24. not comparable Synonym of close.

    Similar: close

25. especially, not comparable Of a club, bat or other hitting implement; angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
26. not comparable Of a meld; completed without calling another player's discarded tile unless that call would complete the hand.
27. not comparable Of a hand; completed with all closed melds.

Similar: shut · Opposite: open

verb

1. participle, past simple past and past participle of close