Closure is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLOSURE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to end a debate by calling for a vote, also CLOTURE
• apply the closure to (a debate or speaker) in a legislative assembly.
• The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.
• That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
• That which incloses or confines; an inclosure.
• A conclusion; an end.
• A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cloture was originally applied to this proceeding.
• terminate debate by calling for a vote
• (in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure
NOUN:
• an act or process of closing something, especially an institution, thoroughfare, or frontier, or of being closed
• a thing that closes or seals something, such as a cap or tie.
• (in a legislative assembly) a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote
• a sense of resolution or conclusion at the end of an artistic work
• a feeling that an emotional or traumatic experience has been resolved
• approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
• 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
• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
• an obstruction in a pipe or tube
• the act of blocking
• termination of operations
• closing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cloture

Words related to CLOSURE

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How to use CLOSURE in a sentence

• Lessways would have easily passed a couple of days in preparing the house for closure.
• The author really has no right to choose only the critical moments, and to shut out the commonplace, every-day life by a sort of literary closure.
• Not, however, without danger, for sometimes, we are assured, by a sudden closure, the oyster will catch the thief, and detain him until he is drowned by the return of the tide.
• The expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 caused the closure of several colleges in Ecuador, and for a time seriously hampered the work of classical education.
• Since 1990, Greenland has registered a foreign trade deficit following the closure of the last remaining lead and zinc mine in 1989.
• By a proclamation of November 6, 1895, he ordered the destruction of sugar plantations and railway connections and the closure of all sugar factories.
• The ring once magnetized must, in losing its magnetism, permit a closure of the lines by shortening.
• Laryngeal closing for normal swallowing consists chiefly in the tilting and the closure of the upper laryngeal orifice.
• The coiled spring is to be sought, and when found, seized with the rotation forceps and the pin thus drawn into the esophagoscope to effect closure.
• The closure of the tubes is not the only result that may follow the course of this disease.
• To assist in this closure, it is wise to keep the child on its right side for a few days.
• Many doors having no permanent means of closure are still in use.
• Howsoever, I excuse him, for that I believe he is now drawing near to the end and final closure of his life.
• We, on the contrary, shall at the closure and end of this treatment reckon up our number.
• Mark, that chance and fortune are good, honest, profitable, and necessary for ending of and putting a final closure to dissensions and debates in suits at law.
• The forcible closure of the eyelids is, perhaps, merely a part of that general action by which almost all the muscles of the body are at the same time rendered rigid.
• How it comes that the firm closure of the mouth gives the appearance of determination will presently be discussed.
• Gentleman wanted to move the Closure, he should do so in the form provided.
• On that day of the first, less consummated, closure to specious romance she had, in a sense, embraced him albeit no differently than the fall of a metal bar at a toll road.
• The Club took no time at all to get into its stride after the closure.
• A similar closure slab with a hole is also found in certain rock-tombs quite close to this dolmen.
• He assuredly did not relish the use of the closure and the guillotine.

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