The act of shutting; a closing.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
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.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
A trapdoor.
A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
The act of hatching.
A gullet.
A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
A floodgate; a sluice gate.
An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
Development; disclosure; discovery.
A bedstead.
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
To devise.
To emerge from an egg.
To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.