# closed

Pronunciation: say "KLOHZD" US /kloʊzd/, UK /kləʊzd/

## Adjective

1. Shut, with an opening covered or blocked, as a container, door, or valve.
   - Simple: Shut, with an opening covered or blocked.
   - _The container remained closed, keeping moisture away from the seeds inside._
   - _With every vent closed, the room grew stuffy within minutes._
2. Not operating or doing business, as a shop or service outside its working hours.
   - Simple: Not open for business at this time.
   - _The pharmacy on Main Street is closed after nine, so we'll have to wait until morning._
   - _Most banks remain closed on national holidays._
4. Not available for use or operation at present.
   - Simple: Not able to be used or run at the moment.
   - _The application portal is closed until the next enrollment period._
   - _The east elevator is closed for repairs, so visitors must take the stairs._
5. Made impassable, so that traffic or movement cannot get through.
   - Simple: Blocked so that no one can pass through.
   - _The mountain pass stays closed throughout the winter months._
   - _Police left the highway closed while they cleared the wreck._
6. Not allowing visitors or the general public to enter.
   - Simple: Not letting visitors or the public enter.
   - _The exhibit is closed to the public during private tours._
   - _Officials kept the beach closed all weekend for safety._
7. Drawn together, folded, or contracted, as a fist, the eyes, or the petals of a flower.
   - Simple: Pulled together or folded shut, like a hand or a flower.
   - _The flower's petals stayed closed until the morning sun warmed them._
   - _At dusk the daisies fold their petals and stay closed until the sun comes up again._
8. Restricted to a select group, such as members or chosen entrants, rather than open to the public.
   - Simple: Only for certain people, not for everyone.
   - _The board held a closed session to discuss the layoffs._
   - _Reporters were barred from the closed hearing._
9. Settled or finally decided, and no longer open for discussion or change.
   - Simple: Finished and not open to any more discussion.
   - _As far as the committee is concerned, the issue is closed._
   - _Once the deal was signed, negotiations were considered closed._
10. Not receptive to new ideas, opinions, or outside influences.
   - Simple: Not willing to listen to new ideas.
   - _The manager remained closed to suggestions from the team._
   - _A closed attitude can make learning anything new very difficult._
11. Not currently in use; no longer connected to as a resource.
   - Simple: No longer in use or connected, like a file a program has finished with.
   - _Once the connection is closed, the server frees the associated memory._
   - _The database handle is closed, so any further queries will fail._
12. Of a curve, path, or walk: ending where it begins, so that it forms a complete, unbroken loop.
   - Simple: Of a line or path: joined at its ends so that it makes a full loop.
   - _A closed curve, such as a circle, has no endpoints._
   - _The track forms a closed loop, so runners return to where they started._
13. Positioned so that an electric circuit is complete and current can flow through it.
   - Simple: Set so that electricity can flow all the way around.
   - _With the switch closed, current flows freely through the wiring._
   - _Once the breaker is closed again, power returns to the kitchen outlets._
14. Of a compound: written with its parts joined into a single word, without spaces or hyphens.
   - Simple: Written as one word, with no space or hyphen between the parts.
   - _The style guide recommends the closed compound 'database' rather than 'data base'._
   - _Over time many open compounds become closed, losing the space between their parts._

## Verb

3. Simple past and past participle of close, used for the action of closing something rather than the state of being closed. — simple past and past participle of close
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of close. Use it for past actions and after words like "has" or "be".
   - _The store closed its doors for the final time yesterday._
   - _He closed the meeting with a few brief remarks._

## Other meanings

- (adjective) Of a consonant: produced by completely blocking the mouth and nose passages, like /t/, /d/, and /p/.
- (adjective) Of a vowel: cut off sharply by a following consonant.
- (adjective) Of a set: having an open complement, so that the points not in it form an open set.
- (adjective) Of a set: having the property that the specified operation maps its elements back into the same set, so its image is contained within the set.
- (adjective) Of a formula or term: containing no free variables.
- (adjective) Having a striking face tilted downward or, for a right-handed player, turned counterclockwise from straight, as with a club, bat, or similar implement.
- (adjective) In heraldry, of a bird: depicted with its wings folded close to the body; a synonym of close.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/closed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).