# closed
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kləʊzd/
* (General American) IPA: /kloʊzd/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊzd

### Adjective

closed (not comparable)
* Physically obstructed, sealed, etc.
** Made impassable.
    A closed and locked door prevented my escape.
    The channel was closed as a result of thick ice.
** Sealed or covered.
    Her eyes were tightly closed.
    Keep this box closed at all times.
*** 2005, Pamela J. Carter, Susan Lewsen, Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, page 277:When the top sheet, blanket, and bedspread of a closed bed are turned back, or fanfolded, the closed bed becomes an open bed, or a bed ready to receive a patient or resident.
** Physically drawn together, folded or contracted.
    A book lay closed on the table.
    a closed fist
** (engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) In a position preventing fluid from flowing.
* Not available for operation, participation, interaction, etc.
** Not available for use or operation.
    Phone lines are now closed.
** (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade.
    Banks are closed on bank holidays.
** Not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
    The museum is closed for the Christmas holidays.
** Not receptive.
    He is closed to new ideas.
** Not public.
    closed source  a closed committee  The bill is being considered by the committee in closed session.
** (computing, of a file, document, etc.) Not in current use; not connected to as a resource.
    Make sure that all files are closed before you switch off the computer.
* Completed, finalised.
** Settled; decided or determined; withdrawn from consideration.
    This subject is now closed.
** Having one end joined to the other, forming a completed loop.
    a closed curve, a closed circuit
** (electricity, of a switch or circuit breaker) In a position allowing electricity to flow.
** (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same, forming a closed loop.
* (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
* (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
    The set of integers is closed under addition: $\forall x,y\in \mathbb {Z} \,x+y\in \mathbb {Z}$.
* (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
* (phonology) Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/.
* (phonology) Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /ɪ/ in pin.
* (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.
* (heraldry) Synonym of close.
* (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.

#### Synonyms

* shut (many senses)

#### Antonyms

* open (many senses)

#### Derived terms

* a closed mouth catches no flies
* a closed mouth doesn't get fed
* a closed mouth gathers no feet
* algebraically closed
* behind closed doors
* bicartesian closed category
* biclosed
* Cartesian closed category
* case closed
* clopen
* closed adoption
* closed assembly time
* closed-back
* closed ball
* closed beta
* closed book
* closed-book
* closed campus
* closed caption
* closed-captioned
* closed captioning
* closed casket
* closed circuit
* closed-circuit
* closed-circuit television
* closed circulatory system
* closed city
* closed class
* closed comedo
* closed comedone
* closed compound
* closed-concept
* closed currency
* closed curve
* closed cut valley
* closed-cut valley
* closed door
* closed e
* closed-ear
* closed-eared
* closed-end fund
* closed feedwater heater
* closed file
* closed form
* closed formula
* closed interval
* closed loop
* closed matte
* closedminded
* closed-minded
* closed-mindedly
* closed-mindedness
* closedness
* closed o
* closed order
* closed period
* closed question
* closed season
* closed set
* closed shop
* closed-source
* closed species
* closed syllable
* closed system
* closed timelike curve
* closed time loop
* closed-toe
* closed town
* closed visit
* coclosed
* demiclosed
* fail closed
* integrally closed
* nonclosed
* open-closed principle
* pluriclosed
* regular closed
* semiclosed
* semi-closed game
* unclosed
* with closed doors
* with one's eyes closed

#### Translations

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#### See also

* close

### Verb

closed
* simple past and past participle of close

### Anagrams

* Dolces, codels, codles, dolces

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklɔsɛd/

### Noun

closed m (plural closedau)
* Alternative form of closet

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.