CLOSURE Synonyms

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• a community of people smaller than a town

• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an area where a group of families live together

• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

• (American football) a successful forward pass in football

• a concluding action

• a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration

• an intuitive assumption

• the temporal end; the concluding time

• event whose occurrence ends something

• the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)

• the act of ending something

• a final settlement

• the last section of a communication

• the act of making up your mind about something

• the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)

• the act of ending something

• the point in time at which something ends

• event whose occurrence ends something

• the last section of a communication

• the quality of being final or definitely settled

• a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)

• the temporal end; the concluding time

• a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

• the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

• designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race)

• the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict)

• event whose occurrence ends something

• (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed)

• the act of finishing

• come or bring to a finish or an end

• finally be or do something

• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

• provide with a finish

• finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table

• cause to finish a relationship with somebody

• a coming to an end of a contract period

• a place where something ends or is complete

• something that results

• the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)

• the act of ending something

• the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction

• an obstruction in a pipe or tube

• the act of blocking

• final or ending

• the act of closing something

• the last section of a communication

• approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap

• termination of operations

• a concluding action

• a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

• terminate debate by calling for a vote

• closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)

• (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft

• (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed

• an obstruction in a pipe or tube

• the act of blocking

• a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)

• a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings

• a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

• a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit

• housing in a large building that is divided into separate units

• (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted

• an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension

• a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope

• a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine

• an obstruction in a pipe or tube

• a platform from which an auctioneer sells

• the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements

• render unsuitable for passage

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• stop from happening or developing

• interfere with or prevent the reception of signals

• run on a block system

• interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia

• shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight

• stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block

• obstruct

• block passage through

• support, secure, or raise with a block

• impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)

• be unable to remember

• shape by using a block

• shape into a block or blocks

• prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)

• termination of operations

• termination of operations

• the event of something ending

• the act of stopping something

• a brief stay in the course of a journey

• the state of inactivity following an interruption

• a spot where something halts or pauses

• a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

• (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes

• a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

• a restraint that checks the motion of something

• an obstruction in a pipe or tube

• come to a halt, stop moving

• put an end to a state or an activity

• stop from happening or developing

• interrupt a trip

• cause to end

• prevent completion

• hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

• seize on its way

• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

• render unsuitable for passage

• stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

• the state of inactivity following an interruption

• an obstruction in a pipe or tube

• the act of stopping something

• a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

• any law that limits freedom of the press

• a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

• 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