Synonyms of the word

closing

• n. The act by which something is closed.
• n. The end or conclusion of something.
• n. The final procedure in a house sale when documents are signed and recorded.
• adj. Coming after all others.
• v. present participle of close.

approach

• v. (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
• v. (transitive) To come near to in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
• v. To make an attempt at (solving a problem or making a policy).
• v. To speak to, as to make a request or ask a question.
• v. (transitive, military) To take approaches to.
• v. To bring near; to cause to draw near.
• n. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
• n. An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
• n. (in the plural) Movements to gain favor; advances.
• n. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
• n. A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
• n. (used only in the plural, fortification) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers…
• n. (golf, tennis) An approach shot.
• n. The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
• n. (bowling) The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.

approaching

• adj. That approaches or approach.
• adv. Nearly.
• v. present participle of approach.
• n. The act of coming closer; an approach.

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

closedown

• n. (radio, television) The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off…

closure

• n. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
• n. A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
• n. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
• n. (programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of…
• n. (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
• n. (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
• n. The act of shutting; a closing.
• n. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
• n. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
• n. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative…

coming

• v. present participle of come.
• n. The act of arriving; an arrival.
• adj. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
• adj. Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
• adj. (obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.

completion

• n. The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
• n. (law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
• n. (American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
• n. (mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
• n. (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.

concluding

• adj. (obsolete) Conclusive; convincing; decisive.
• adj. Finishing; closing; final.
• v. present participle of conclude.

conclusion

• n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
• n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
• n. A decision reached after careful thought.
• n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
• n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
• n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
• n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

culmination

• n. (astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across…
• n. Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

ending

• v. present participle of end.
• n. A termination or conclusion.
• n. The last part of something.
• n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

final

• n. (Canada, US) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test…
• n. (sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
• n. A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places…
• n. (phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
• n. (music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody…
• adj. Last; ultimate.
• adj. Conclusive; decisive.
• adj. Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
• adj. (grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
• adj. (linguistics) Word-final, occurring at the end of a word.

last

• adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
• adj. Most recent, latest, last so far.
• adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
• adj. Being the only one remaining of its class.
• adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
• adj. Lowest in rank or degree.
• adv. Most recently.
• adv. (sequence) after everything else; finally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out.
• v. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
• v. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
• n. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
• v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
• n. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
• n. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
• n. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
• n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.

motility

• n. (uncountable) The state of being motile.
• n. (countable) The degree to which something is motile.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

section

• n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
• n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• n. A part of a document.
• n. An act or instance of cutting.
• n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
• n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
• n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
• n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
• n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
• n. (category theory) A right inverse.
• n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
• n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
• n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
• v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
• v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
• v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

shutdown

• n. The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.
• n. A statement, insult, etc. that prevents the opponent from replying further.
• n. An autistic response to stress, etc. where the individual becomes silent and motionless.

shutting

• v. present participle of shut.
• n. The act by which something is shut.

subdivision

• n. (countable, uncountable) a division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
• n. (countable) such a piece that has been divided.
• n. (countable) a parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
• n. (countable) a group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
• v. to separate something into smaller pieces.

terminal

• n. A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow…
• n. A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
• n. A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal…
• n. A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service,…
• n. A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
• n. (electronics) the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the…
• n. An electric contact on a battery.
• n. (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network…
• n. (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data…
• n. (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
• n. (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
• n. (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptid.
• adj. Fatal; resulting in death.
• adj. Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
• adj. Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time.

termination

• n. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
• n. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
• n. An end in time; a conclusion.
• n. An end in space; an edge or limit.
• n. An outcome or result.
• n. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
• n. (medicine) An induced abortion.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
• n. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

terminative

• adj. of, or relating to the termination of something.
• adj. (linguistics) of, or relating to the terminative case.
• n. the terminative case.
• n. a word in the terminative case.

windup

• n. The act of ending or concluding something.
• n. The last part of something; a conclusion.
• n. (Britain) A practical joke or tease.
• n. (baseball) The act of preparing for a certain style of pitching.
• adj. Operated by a coiled spring that is wound by hand.

year-end

• adj. On or happening at the end of the year (e.g., late December).