adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a closed circle (= not open to other people )
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He didn’t have much experience of life beyond the closed circle of his family.
a private/closed meeting (= that only a few people are allowed to go to )
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The senator attended a private meeting with the president.
a road is closed
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The mountain road was closed by snow.
closed captioned
closed circuit television
closed economy
closed season
closed shop
closed/shut
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All the windows were closed.
have sth open/closed/on etc
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I had my eyes half-closed.
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Janice likes to have the window open.
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She had her back to the door.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
book
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Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding.
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But your own past can be a closed book , even at fourteen.
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The kitchenette is a closed book .
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The highly organised St Stephen's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her!
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I tell myself it's a closed book , but my cover story becomes an old man's compensation.
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I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book .
circle
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Again, you will have a closed circle of suspects.
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The objectivity of the psychophysical laws - and the escape from the closed circle of experience - is more apparent than real.
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It was too much of a closed circle .
circuit
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Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system in both the Myles Meehan and the Long Gallery.
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Not in person, but via a closed circuit television screen that fills an entire wall.
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Obtaining the necessary, sometimes expensive, special equipment such as closed circuit television takes time and persistence.
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The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras.
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It is a simple closed circuit television system, a video camera photographing a speech being rolled beneath it.
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I turned our closed circuit cameras on to the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage.
class
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Since words in the closed class have a syntactic rather than a semantic role in utterances they are also known as function words.
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In addition to whole words, the closed class also contains affixes.
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Like many distinctions, that between open and closed classes of lexical items is not an absolute one.
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However, for the moment we will accept the division of lexical items into open and closed classes .
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Stemberger compared the frequencies with which these three types of error occurred with open and closed class lexical items.
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This might suggest that the major difficulty with closed class items is that they are harder to access than open class items.
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So it seems unlikely that closed class items were more difficult to retrieve than open class items.
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Words in the closed class , on the other hand, are used in order to express grammatical relations between words.
door
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She clutched the rail to steady herself, reached the deck and went to the closed doors of the lounge.
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We think, but we don't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors .
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Each band was identified only by a number, and they were marked by adjudicators sitting behind closed doors .
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A closed door stops draughts spreading the flames, and dramatically slows the progress of a fire.
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Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence.
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In this case, it seems that the DoE will decide behind closed doors .
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Conference officials chuckled when they heard Mr Milosevic yelling at Mr Karadzic behind closed doors .
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Paige frowned at the closed door .
economy
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Czechoslovakia still insists on an inflated hard currency exchange rate which reflects its closed economy .
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Consider a simple closed economy with no government.
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Stage 1 will tend to be more powerful than in a closed economy .
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In a closed economy , it follows that by definition, Investment is seen as an activity of firms.
mind
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It is from closed minds that so many social evils flow.
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What is vital is that no employer should approach disciplinary problems with a closed mind .
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What we seek is merely evidence that Pound didn't go to Sicily with a closed mind .
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Openmindedness Open up to the possibility of how closed your mind is A closed mind is a small mind!
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A closed mind is when you believe that your way of making profit is superior to everyone else's.
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A closed mind is when you consistently believe that you're right and the other person is wrong.
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Mirth is one of the gifts of men for it is an opener of the closed mind .
question
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Don't ask questions or ask closed questions.
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A asks B closed questions , which B tries to answer as expansively as possible.
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Many pupils were still asking closed questions that did not encourage or prompt elaborated answers.
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In the meantime, closed questions can start us on the path to fuller negotiation.
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With closed questions , the researcher has in some way limited the possible responses.
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Open and closed questions with a period of miming thrown in.
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If some one is: Talking too much, over-disclosing Ask closed questions which require yes, no or one-word answers.
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When seeking information, use a closed question for a yes/no answer.
session
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As the working party suggested, a section of the Council meeting dealing with private Institute business was held in closed session .
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In a closed session , Mr Modrow appealed to the delegates not to allow the party to disintegrate.
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They claimed a report advising against fighting a costly appeal with the electricity giant should have been discussed in closed session .
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The question of the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs was discussed in closed session , and their survival was subsequently decided.
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The revelation was discussed at closed sessions of the Senate select committee on intelligence, chaired by Democrat David Boren.
set
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Systems consist of a very small number of terms which thus constitute closed sets .
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Two separate operations are needed to normalise this sentence, one involving closed set items: 8a.
shop
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This was not so easy at that time as the crewing arrangements were very much of a closed shop .
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It was the last closed shop in Britain, he said, and it had to go.
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The production unions' success had various causes, including an effective closed shop and weak newspaper managements.
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Mr Fowler said it was an historic step, because the closed shop had existed for more than 100 years.
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Therefore, your club must not be a closed shop .
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The closed shop and the wildcat strike have undermined the legitimacy of modern trade unionism.
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Their purpose was to weaken the closed shop and to outlaw secondary picketing.
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Tebbit found himself unable to outlaw the closed shop entirely.
system
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A closed system is a system in which there is no net gain or loss of matter in the system.
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In closed systems the fear of being considered faint-hearted, or uninvolved, or unsupportive prevents such doubts being voiced at all.
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The attraction of their closed system was considerable.
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This says that in any closed system disorder, or entropy, always increases with time.
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The closed system is thus characteristic of grammar, the open set of lexis.
world
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This is especially true of elderly people in mental handicap hospitals who have lived in a closed world all their lives.
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We are a closed world , having little contact with Federation authority.
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Such contact can often help individuals to move out of their own, often closed world of despair.
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For the public, a rare glimpse into a closed world .
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Many social scientists have found the closed world of political extremists to be an exotic topic of study.
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Sky, clouds, then down into the closed world of water sound distortion.
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To be a true professional, you had to live in a closed world .
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Everyone in the galaxy, probably even in the closed worlds , knows what those colours mean.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a closed book
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But your own past can be a closed book , even at fourteen.
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He is holding a closed book , signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.
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I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book .
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I tell myself it's a closed book , but my cover story becomes an old man's compensation.
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Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding.
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The highly organised St Stephen's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her!
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The kitchenette is a closed book .
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The Shoah will never be a closed book .
be closed
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As far as I am concerned, the matter is closed .
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The ticket office was closed .
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Until we can talk about this in a civil manner, I consider the discussion closed .
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Course all the stores are closed now.
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For insurance reasons, the course will be closed to automobile traffic.
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Muzi Ford in Needham was closed .
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Roads were closed and eight ambulances stood by as the cloud drifted towards the villages of Wincham and Lostock Gralam.
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The A55 Conwy tunnel was closed for more than an hour.
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The National University was closed four years ago by the army.
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The period should be closed so that actual expenditures as they occurred are stated in this column. 2.
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The Ptarmigan was closed , and so I walked down beneath the ski-tow towards the road.
can do sth with your eyes shut/closed
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Community leaders are having a closed meeting with the mayor.
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During the period of the Cold War, many Communist countries were virtually closed societies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again, you will have a closed circle of suspects.
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Her eyes kept flickering shut, though, and they finally stayed closed as she gently snoozed.
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Many social scientists have found the closed world of political extremists to be an exotic topic of study.
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Stepping towards the opponent's closed side provides fewer targets, though it does succeed in preventing an immediate, effective counter.
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The Macintosh, on the other hand, uses the Motorola 68000 and was designed as a closed architecture.
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We think, but we don't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors.