having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
brought to a close; concluded: It was a closed incident with no repercussions.
not public; restricted; exclusive: a closed meeting; a closed bid at a private auction.
not open to new ideas or arguments.
self-contained; independent or self-sufficient: a closed, symbiotic relationship.
Phonetics. (of a syllable) ending with a consonant or a consonant cluster, as has, hasp.Compare open (def. 35b).
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 (opposed to open).
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.
Mathematics.
(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.
(of an interval) containing both of its endpoints.
(of a map from one topological space to another) having the property that the image of a closed set is a closed set.
(of a curve) not having endpoints; enclosing an area.
(of a surface) enclosing a volume.
(of a function or operator) having as its graph a closed set.
Origin of closed
Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; see origin at close, -ed2
close call, close communion, close company, close corporation, close-cropped, closed, closed anesthesia, closed book, closed-captioned, closed chain, closed chain compound
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That kind of closed-door session, where a head of the Civil Rights Division is secretly speaking about enforcement with partisan state officials, is unprecedented.
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Every few hours I found at least 10 traps with closed doors, and what followed was a crash course in mammal diversity.
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Two of the country’s biggest markets, New York and Los Angeles, remain closed.
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He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.
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Closed courthouses, rogue clerks, and misleading statements from the attorney general as Florida welcomes same-sex marriage.
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I wish I could be writing to you under better circumstances, but unfortunately those avenues have closed up.
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The FCC investigation recently closed its comment period on the Marriott case.
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All the roads into Iraqi Kurdistan and toward Baghdad are closed and now the road toward Syria is also blocked.
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He closed her eyes himself, and followed her coffin to the churchyard.
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She moaned and wept and refused all comfort, until one night she closed her eyes on the world which had been so harsh and bitter.
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I repeat—for certain reasons—that I closed with an anecdote.
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She closed up the house for the night, looking out in the bright moonlight to see that all was quiet.
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He closed the door noiselessly and seating himself at his desk, proceeded with slow deliberation to open his accumulated mail.
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British Dictionary definitions for closed
closed
/ (kləʊzd) /
adjective
blocked against entry; shut
restricted; exclusive
not open to question or debate
(of a hunting season, etc) close
maths
(of a curve or surface) completely enclosing an area or volume
(of a set) having members that can be produced by a specific operation on other members of the same setthe integers are a closed set under multiplication
Also: checkedphonetics
denoting a syllable that ends in a consonant
another word for close 1 (def. 21)
not open to public entry or membershipthe closed society of publishing