Closer vs Door - What's the difference?
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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
A that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
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, chapter=20 Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
A non-physical into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
(computing, dated) A . See (BBS door).
As nouns the difference between closer and door
is that closer is someone or something that closes while door is door.As an adjective closer
is (close).closer
English
Etymology 1
From close (adjective) + -erAdjective
(head)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
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 heteronymsdoor
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}