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▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive, chiefly British) To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
▸ verb:  (ergative, computing, more usually 'close') To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
▸ adjective:  Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
▸ adjective:  Physically sealed, obstructed, folded together, etc.
▸ adjective:  Not available for use or operation.
▸ adjective:  (of a business or venue) Not operating or conducting trade; not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
▸ adjective:  Not receptive.
▸ adjective:  (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
▸ adjective:  (heraldry) Synonym of close.
▸ adjective:  (linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close.
▸ noun:  The act or time of shutting; close.
▸ noun:  A door or cover; a shutter.
▸ noun:  The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
▸ noun:  (British, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.

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