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close(1) To finish reading or writing a document. The close function typically saves any changes made to the document and releases the file so it can be used by another application. Contrast with open. close1 restricted or prohibited as to the type of game or fish able to be taken close2 1. Law private property, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge, or wall 2. Brit a courtyard or quadrangle enclosed by buildings or an entry leading to such a courtyard 3. Brit a small quiet residential road 4. the precincts of a cathedral or similar building 5. Scot the entry from the street to a tenement building 6. Music another word for cadence. A perfect cadence is called a full close an imperfect one a half close close [klōs] (computer science) To make a file unavailable to a computer program which previously had access to it. (meteorology) Colloquially, descriptive of oppressively still, warm, moist air, frequently applied to indoor conditions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Much better: Hoping to put an end to the debate about his comedy-club heckler attack, Michael Richards issued a statement saying he wasn't being racist but was just ``nervous'' and ``forgot the joke'' he meant to tell about the penny-pinching Jewish man and the mustached Italian woman who walk into a bar where a Chinese guy is taking pictures of the dumb blonde bartender waiting on a drunk Indian squaw. The plot is complicated, even themeless, but suffice it to say that sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister must put aside his hostility toward his domineering, penny-pinching father in order to prove that dad has been framed for a murder he didn't commit, and that employees of Mr. Unfortunately, said Dean Burgomaster and Ray Carter, chair of the restoration committee, penny-pinching when the building was erected resulted in the use of substandard building materials. |
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