Dictionary entry details
• CLOSURE (noun)
Meaning:
Approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
closure; closing
Context example:
the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision
Hypernyms ("closure" is a kind of...):
approach; approaching; coming (the act of drawing spatially closer to something)
Meaning:
A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
gag rule; cloture; gag law; closure
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)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
law of closure; closure
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)
Meaning:
Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
closure; resolution; settlement
Context examples:
the finally reached a settlement with the union / they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences / he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure
Hypernyms ("closure" is a kind of...):
deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)
Meaning:
An obstruction in a pipe or tube
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
blockage; stoppage; occlusion; closure; block; stop
Context example:
we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe
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breech closer; breechblock (a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing)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))
Meaning:
The act of blocking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
blockage; occlusion; closure
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)
Meaning:
Termination of operations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
closedown; shutdown; closing; closure
Context example:
they regretted the closure of the day care center
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)
• CLOSURE (verb)
Meaning:
Terminate debate by calling for a vote
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
closure; cloture
Context examples:
debate was closured / cloture the discussion
Hypernyms (to "closure" is one way to...):
end; terminate (bring to an end or halt)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
