Closer vs Closure - What's the difference?
closer | closure |
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, title= Someone or something that closes.
Someone or something that concludes.
The last stone in a horizontal course, if smaller than the others; a piece of brick finishing a course.
(baseball) A relief pitcher that specializes in getting the last three outs of the game. See
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
(computer science) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
The act of shutting; a closing.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
* Shakespeare
A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
As nouns the difference between closer and closure
is that closer is someone or something that closes while closure is an event or occurrence that signifies an ending.As an adjective closer
is comparative of close.closer
English
Etymology 1
From close (adjective) + -erAdjective
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Etymology 2
From close (verb) + -erNoun
(en noun)- In our organization, the VP of Sales usually acts as the closer .
- The DJ chose a fantastic track as his closer at the end of the night.
- (Gwilt)
- They brought their closer in for the ninth.
Anagrams
* English heteronymsclosure
English
Noun
(en noun)- the closure of a door, or of a chink
- Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.
- O thou bloody prison / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.