Closes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLOSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• CLOSE, to make impassable
• move so as to cover an opening
• block up (a hole or opening)
• bring two parts of (something) together so as to block its opening or bring it into a folded state
• come into contact with (something) so as to encircle and hold it
• make (an electric circuit) continuous
• bring or come to an end
• finish speaking or writing
• bring (a business transaction) to a satisfactory conclusion
• (of a business, organization, or institution) cease to be in operation or accessible to the public, either permanently or at the end of a working day or other period of time
• remove all the funds from (a bank or building society account) and cease to use it
• make (a file) inaccessible after use, so that it is securely stored until required again
• gradually get nearer to someone or something
NOUN:
• a residential street without through access
• the precinct surrounding a cathedral.
• a playing field at certain traditional English public schools.
• an entry from the street to a common stairway or to a court at the back of a building.
• the end of an event or of a period of time or activity
• the conclusion of a phrase; a cadence.
• the shutting of something, especially a door
• the end of a day's trading on a stock market
• the end of a day's play in a cricket match
ADVERB:
• very near to someone or something; with very little space between
ADJECTIVE:
• only a short distance away or apart in space or time
• with very little or no space in between; dense
• narrowly enclosed
• very near to (being or doing something)
• (with reference to a competitive situation) involving only a small margin between winner and loser
• on very affectionate or intimate terms
• (of a connection or resemblance) strong
• (of observation, examination, etc.) done in a careful and thorough way
• carefully guarded
• not willing to give away money or information; secretive
• uncomfortably humid or airless
• denoting a family member who is part of a person's immediate family, typically a parent or sibling
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to block against entry or passage

Words related to CLOSES

close7 closed9 closing10

Words that contain CLOSES

closest9 ecloses9 cycloses15 encloses10 incloses10 recloses10 uncloses10 upcloses12 discloses12 parcloses13 closestool12 forecloses15 closestools13 disencloses14 disincloses14

How to use CLOSES in a sentence

• I was noting its gloomy aspect under the dim February moon, when a man came towards me and turned into one of the closes.
• She had not lived long enough to realize that the traces of human lives often disappear from cities as quickly as the ocean closes over the tracks of vessels.
• Each detail commander closes the rear rank to the right and fills blank files as far as practicable with the men from his front rank.
• The office is in the Strada Etnea, the main street of Catania, which runs straight through the city, from the sea to the base of the mountain, whose peak closes the long vista.
• During the time between which the port closes and the point at which the exhaust opens.
• The death of La Salle in Texas in his attempt to reach Illinois closes the chapter of exploration.
• Before the present season closes, his iron navy will be composed of twenty steamships and four floating batteries.
• Science destroys poetry, dries up the poetic sense, closes the doors of imagination.
• She had closed them, as a flower closes its leaves in the heat of the sun.
• The Closes lived in a splendid big house in the Murray Hill section.
• Thus Winter closes every year, With snow, and ice, and tempest drear.
• As a theatre, it opens in June and closes in September.
• No one ever closes the book with the feeling that man is a poor mean creature.
• Such, for example, is the Chorus on the Golden Age which closes the fourth act.
• He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction which he considers most honorable to himself.
• Now rods ought to be put in order in September, when the fishing closes, or else in April, when it opens.
• After the sponge is withdrawn, Captain serves the Vent with his priming-wire, and again closes it.
• The angel of life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
• It closes with a spring, and is provided with a bolt.
• Now the psalm closes with the last scene of the day.
• Scepticism simply closes the door through which we might pass to fuller knowledge.
• The church of St Mark, founded in the year 828, closes up the square on the east.
• That point will be near enough the Texan frontier for the Indians to go home easily when the war closes.
• So closes the third phase of the Jewish examination.
• Saul, before the poem closes, is also among the prophets.
• The hands are drawn apart, and the weight closes the loop, causing it to grip the jar.
• Tennyson here proposes, rather than closes with, the ultimate question of our destiny.
• The present work closes a series of studies on the literary preparation for the French Revolution.
• John closes with Jesus walking along the beach, talking with the little group of trusted ones.
• At the sound of his voice the concert closes suddenly and the singers vanish into thin air.
• Warren at home, describes what a boy thought of the battle of Bunker Hill, and closes with the raising of the siege.
• He has walked in the garden closes of Phaeacia, and looked on the face of gods who fare thither, and watch the weaving of the dance.
• The slab which closes one end of the tomb is of great size, and consists of a lower rectangular half with a small hole at the base and an upper part shaped like a rounded gable.

Similar words containing CLOSE without suffix s

close7 closed9 closer8 closet8 eclose8 closely12 closers9 closest9 closets9 closeup11 eclosed10 ecloses9 enclose9 inclose9 reclose9 unclose9 upclose11 closeout10 closeted11 closeups12 cycloses15 disclose11 enclosed11 encloser10 encloses10 inclosed11 incloser10 incloses10 parclose12 reclosed11 recloses10 unclosed11 uncloses10 upclosed13 upcloses12 closeable13 closedown15 closehead15 closeness11 closeouts11 closetful14 closeting12 disclosed13 discloser12 discloses12 enclosers11 foreclose14 inclosers11 overclose14 parcloses13 closedowns16 closeheads16 closestool12 closetfuls15 disclosers13 disenclose13 disinclose13 foreclosed16 forecloses15 unenclosed13 uninclosed13 closefisted17 closenesses13 closestools13 cycloserine18 disenclosed15 disencloses14 disinclosed15 disincloses14 undisclosed15 closemouthed20 cycloserines19

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