closed

[closed]

If something's closed, it's shut or sealed. When your brother's bedroom door is closed, you'd better knock; if the library's closed, you'll have to come back tomorrow to check out some books.

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Adjective S.
shut down; "the airport is closed because of the weather"; "the many closed shops and factories made the town look deserted"

Adjective S.
(of the wings of birds and insects) closed together

Adjective
not open; "the door slammed shut"

Adjective
not open or affording passage or access; "the many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains"

Adjective
used especially of mouth or eyes; "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight"

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Adjective S.
blocked against entry; "a closed porch"

Adjective
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

Adjective S.
not having an open mind; "a closed mind unreceptive to new ideas"

Adjective S.
not open to the general public; "a closed meeting"

Adjective S.
with shutters closed


imp. & p. p.
of Close


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Usage Examples

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

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