closing

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: closing

1	n adj	the act of closing something final or ending
2	n	approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: closing

Type of:: motility, motion, move, movement
a change of position that does not entail a change of location

Types:: plant closing
act of shutting down operation of a plant; 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

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; consummation
the act of bringing to completion or fruition; consummation
the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse; finish, finishing
the act of finishing; finalisation, finalization
the act of finalizing; follow-through
carrying some project or intention to full completion; follow-through
the act of carrying a stroke to its natural completion; graduation
the successful completion of a program of study; fruition, realisation, realization
something that is made real or concrete; climax, coming, orgasm, sexual climax
the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse; fulfillment, fulfilment
the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc); close, closing curtain, finale, finis
the concluding part of any performance

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; anticlimax, bathos
a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one; epilog, epilogue
a short passage added at the end of a literary work; epilog, epilogue
a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play; peroration
(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; coda, finale
the closing section of a musical composition

Type of:: section, subdivision
a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)

“the closing stages of the election”

“the closing weeks of the year”

“the closing scene of the film”

“closing remarks”

Synonyms: concluding, final, last, terminal
occurring at or forming an end or termination; terminative
coming to an end; year-end
taking place at the close of a fiscal year

Antonyms:: opening
first or beginning; beginning, first
serving to begin; first, inaugural, initiative, initiatory, maiden
serving to set in motion; introductory
serving to open or begin; starting
appropriate to the beginning or start of an event; show more antonyms...

“the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision”

Type of:: approach, approaching, coming
the act of drawing spatially closer to something

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