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CLOSURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Termination of operations
Example:
they regretted the closure of the day care center
Synonyms:
closedown; closing; closure; shutdown
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("closure" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closure"):
plant closing (act of shutting down operation of a plant)
bank closing (act of closing down a bank because of a fiscal emergency or failure)
layoff (the act of laying off an employee or a work force)
Derivation:
close (cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop)
close (finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.))
close (cease to operate or cause to cease operating)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
Example:
the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision
Synonyms:
closing; closure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("closure" is a kind of...):
approach; approaching; coming (the act of drawing spatially closer to something)
Derivation:
close (draw near)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of blocking
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("closure" is a kind of...):
obstruction (the act of obstructing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closure"):
implosion (the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant)
Derivation:
close (move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut)
close (fill or stop up)
close (bar access to)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An obstruction in a pipe or tube
Example:
we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe
Synonyms:
block; blockage; closure; occlusion; stop; stoppage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("closure" is a kind of...):
impediment; impedimenta; obstructer; obstruction; obstructor (any structure that makes progress difficult)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closure"):
breech closer; breechblock (a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing)
plug; stopper; stopple (blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly)
vapor lock; vapour lock (a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
Example:
he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure
Synonyms:
closure; resolution; settlement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("closure" is a kind of...):
deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
Synonyms:
closure; law of closure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("closure" is a kind of...):
Gestalt law of organization; Gestalt principle of organization (a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
Synonyms:
closure; cloture; gag law; gag rule
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("closure" is a kind of...):
order; parliamentary law; parliamentary procedure; rules of order (a body of rules followed by an assembly)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closure"):
closure by compartment; guillotine (closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill)
Derivation:
closure (terminate debate by calling for a vote)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Terminate debate by calling for a vote
Example:
cloture the discussion
Synonyms:
closure; cloture
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "closure" is one way to...):
end; terminate (bring to an end or halt)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
closure (a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body)
Context examples:
A congenital neural tube closure defect resulting in the protrusion of the brain through a skull opening.
(Encephalocele, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-threaded shallow draw metal closure that normally has 21 corrugations on the outer edge, which function to engage the container when applied.
(Crown Metal Container Closure, Food and Drug Administration)
Plastic closure turned onto a corresponding thread on the top or mouth of a container, whether it be glass, plastic or metal.
(Continuous Thread Plastic Container Closure, Food and Drug Administration)
A congenital disorder characterized by earlier than normal closure of some or all sutures of the infant skull.
(Craniosynostosis, NCI Thesaurus)
Metal closure that is designed or constructed to be significantly difficult for children under five years of age to open and not difficult for normal adults to use properly.
(Child Resistant Metal Container Closure, Food and Drug Administration)
A vessel with a narrow neck designed to accept a specific closure.
(Bottle, NCI Thesaurus)
The full moon of March 9 will bring a money matter to closure.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A diaphragmatic spasm causing a sudden inhalation which is interrupted by a spasmodic closure of the glottis, producing a noise.
(Hiccough, NCI Thesaurus)
Complete closure of the normally patent lumen of the blood vessels which carry blood away from the heart.
(Arterial Occlusion, NCI Thesaurus)
Closure with an ability to be applied and removed with a partial turn.
(Lug Metal Container Closure, Food and Drug Administration)
