closed

[klohzd]

adjective

1. having or forming a boundary or barrier.

   He was blocked by a closed door.

   The house had a closed porch.

2. brought to a close; concluded.

   It was a closed incident with no repercussions.

3. not public; restricted; exclusive.

   a closed meeting;

   a closed bid at a private auction.

4. not open to new ideas or arguments.

5. self-contained; independent or self-sufficient.

   a closed, symbiotic relationship.

6. Phonetics.,  (of a syllable) ending with a consonant or a consonant cluster, as has, hasp.

7. 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, ).

8. 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.

9. Mathematics.

   1. (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.

   2. (of an interval) containing both of its endpoints.

   3. (of a map from one topological space to another) having the property that the image of a closed set is a closed set.

   4. (of a curve) not having endpoints; enclosing an area.

   5. (of a surface) enclosing a volume.

   6. (of a function or operator) having as its graph a closed set.

closed

/ kləʊzd /

adjective

1. blocked against entry; shut

2. restricted; exclusive

3. not open to question or debate

4. (of a hunting season, etc) close

5. maths

   1. (of a curve or surface) completely enclosing an area or volume

   2. (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

6. Also: checked. phonetics

   1. denoting a syllable that ends in a consonant

   2. another word for close 1

7. not open to public entry or membership

   the closed society of publishing

Other Word Forms

• half-closed adjective
• semiclosed adjective
• well-closed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of closed¹

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English; close, -ed ²

Example Sentences

They have been more widely available in England for around 15 years, though many closed after the Conservatives came into power in 2010.

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Denny was not injured; however, the exhibit will be temporarily closed as the glass is repaired.

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Police Scotland closed the road for an investigation and have appealed to the public for information.

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—Asian shares closed lower, with Japan’s Nikkei weighed down by domestic political uncertainty after political party Komeito’s withdrawal from the ruling coalition.

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Norway's foreign ministry confirmed that Caracas had closed its embassy in Oslo without providing a reason.

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