closed

English Online Dictionary. What means closed‎? What does closed mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kləʊzd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kloʊzd/
• Rhymes: -əʊzd

Adjective

closed (not comparable)

1. Physically obstructed, sealed, etc.
   1. Made impassable.

   2. Sealed or covered.
   3. Physically drawn together, folded or contracted.

   4. (engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) In a position preventing fluid from flowing.
2. Not available for operation, participation, interaction, etc.
   1. Not available for use or operation.

   2. (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade.

   3. Not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.

   4. Not receptive.

   5. Not public.

   6. (computing, of a file, document, etc.) Not in current use; not connected to as a resource.

3. Completed, finalised.
   1. Settled; decided or determined; withdrawn from consideration.

   2. Having one end joined to the other, forming a completed loop.

   3. (electricity, of a switch or circuit breaker) In a position allowing electricity to flow.
   4. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same, forming a closed loop.
4. (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
5. (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.

6. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
7. (phonology) Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/.
8. (phonology) Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /ɪ/ in pin.
9. (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.
10. (heraldry) Synonym of close.
11. (especially sports)
    1. Of a club, bat or other hitting implement; angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
    2. Of a competition or tournament; competitors are restricted to a specific group, such as professional, amateur, members or residents.

Synonyms

• shut (many senses)

Antonyms

• open (many senses)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• close

Verb

closed

1. simple past and past participle of close

Anagrams

• Dolces, codels, codles, dolces

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɔsɛd/

Noun

closed m (plural closedau)

1. alternative form of closet

Mutation