| NOUN | act | closure, closing | approaching a particular destination |
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| communication | closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law | a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body | |
| cognition | closure, law of closure | 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 | |
| cognition | closure, settlement, resolution | something settled or resolved | |
| artifact | closure, blockage, block, occlusion, stop, stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube | |
| act | closure, blockage, occlusion | the act of blocking | |
| act | closure, closedown, closing, shutdown | termination of operations | |
| VERB | change | closure, cloture | terminate debate by calling for a vote |
| Sounds | klow'zher | |
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| Rhymes | arbitrager ... treasure: 21 rhymes with zher... | |
| Meaning | approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap. | |
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| Synonym | closing | |
| Broader | approach, approaching, coming | The act of drawing spatially closer to something |
| Verbs | close | draw near |
| Meaning | A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body. | |
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| Synonyms | cloture, gag rule, gag law | |
| Narrower | closure by compartment, guillotine | closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill |
| Broader | order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure | A body of rules followed by an assembly |
| Spanish | clausura | |
| Verbs | closure | terminate debate by calling for a vote |
| 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. | |
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| Synonym | law of closure | |
| Broader | 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. | |
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| Example | "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure" | |
| Synonyms | settlement, resolution | |
| Broader | decision making, deciding | The cognitive process of reaching a decision |
| Spanish | acuerdo, resolución | |
| Catalan | resolució | |
| Meaning | An obstruction in a pipe or tube. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | blockage, block, occlusion, stop, stoppage | |
| Narrower | breechblock, breech closer | 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) | |
| Broader | obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta | Any structure that makes progress difficult |
| Spanish | bloque, bloqueo, cierre, detención, obstrucción, oclusión, parada | |
| Catalan | destorb, obstacle | |
| Meaning | The act of blocking. | |
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| Synonyms | blockage, occlusion | |
| Narrower | implosion | The initial occluded phase of a stop consonant |
| Broader | obstruction | The act of obstructing / obstructing |
| Spanish | oclusión | |
| Catalan | oclusió | |
| Verbs | close | move so that an opening or passage is obstructed |
| close | bar access to | |
| close | fill or stop up | |
| Meaning | termination of operations. | |
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| Example | "they regretted the closure of the day care center" | |
| Synonyms | closedown, closing, shutdown | |
| Narrower | 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 | |
| plant closing | Act of shutting down operation of a plant | |
| Broader | termination, ending, conclusion | The act of ending something |
| Spanish | apagado, cierre, clausura, conclusión, fin | |
| Catalan | clausura, tancament | |
| Verbs | close | cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop |
| close | cease to operate or cause to cease operating | |
| close | finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.) | |
| Meaning | terminate debate by calling for a vote. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "debate was closured" | |
| Synonym | cloture | |
| Broader | end, terminate | Bring to an end or halt |
| Spanish | cerrar, clausurar | |
| Catalan | clausurar | |
| Nouns | closure | a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body |
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