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Definition: Close Off

Close Off

Verb

1. Stem the flow of.

2. Isolate or separate.

3. Block off the passage through.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Close Off

Synonyms: block off (v), shut off (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Close Off

English words defined with "close off": dangerously, doorhazardouslyperilouslyshaved, shavenTo take acquaintance of. (references)
Specialty definitions using "close off": AI koan, Anaconda methodBOAT-LOADER HELPER, BRAKE-LINING CURERDeputy, dock helpernikal, Nurse an Omnibuspier hand helper, PLANING-MACHINE OPERATOR, PROCRASTINATORReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, RIGGER HELPERSCIMETAR, secondary offering, SEWER AND INSPECTOR, SMASH HAND, Some AI Koans, spherical dam, stopoff, stopping builderTRANSFER-CAR OPERATORwharf helper, wharf-tender helper. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Close Off

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

The internal closures may be severe when Palestinians are prohibited from using primary roads and physical barricades close off many secondary roads--or partial when most secondary roads but only some main roads are accessible to Palestinians, and roadblocks and checkpoints dot the open roads. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Close Off

Language Translations for "close off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

uzavřit (close, seal). (various references)

   

Danish

  

mindst ét kammer i de pakkende stempelsikkerhedsventiler indeholder lukkende stempler(blind rams)eller en kombination af lukkende og overskaerende stempler,der under normale omstaendigheder fungerer som lukkende stempler og afspaerrer borehullet,naar bor (at least one chamber in the ram blowout preventers will contain blind rams, giving a complete closure of the hole, or a combination blind and shear ram assembly operating under standard conditions as blind rams to close off the well bore at any time that drill pipe or tools are removed from the hole), at afbryde stroemningsvejen (to close off the flow path). (various references)

   

French

  

verrouiller. (various references)

   

German

  

sperren (ban, bar, barricade, block, blockade, close, cut off, disconnect, freeze, halt, inhibit, jam, lock, obstruct, obstruction, shut off, space out, stick, stop, to inhibit, to interlock), absperren (barricade off, block off, lock up, mark off, seal off, section off, shut off, turn off). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φράσσω την οδό ροής (to close off the flow path), το λιγότερο,ένα από τα διαμερίσματα τωνβαλβίδων ασφαλείας,σιαγονοειδούς τύπου,του αντιεκρηκτικού μηχανισμού ασφαλείας θα είναι εφοδιασμ (giving a complete closure of the hole, or a combination blind and shear ram assembly operating under standard conditions as blind rams to close off the well bore at any time that drill pipe or tools are removed from the hole). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kizár (bar, disbar, disqualify, estop, exclude, foreclose, lock out, rub out, rule out, shut out, to blackball, to close off, to disbar, to disqualify, to except, to exclude, to expel, to foreclose, to keep out, to lock out, to shut out, to strangulate). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Sbarrare il cammino di portata (to close off the flow path), nei preventers a ganasce almeno una camera conterr ganasce cieche,o una combinazione di ganasce cieche con un insieme di ganasce trancianti,operanti in condizioni standard come ganasce cieche,per chiudere il foro pozzo ogni qualvolta aste di perforazion (at least one chamber in the ram blowout preventers will contain blind rams, giving a complete closure of the hole, or a combination blind and shear ram assembly operating under standard conditions as blind rams to close off the well bore at any time that drill pipe or tools are removed from the hole). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oseclay offay

   

Portuguese

  

fechar completamente o caminho do escoamento (to close off the flow path). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

al menos una de las camaras de los obturadores de mordaza estara provista de mordazas de cierre o de una combinacion de mordazas de cierre y de corte, que funcionen en condiciones normales como m ordazas de cierre para cerrar el pozo en cualquier momento, (at least one chamber in the ram blowout preventers will contain blind rams, giving a complete closure of the hole, or a combination blind and shear ram assembly operating under standard conditions as blind rams to close off the well bore at any time that drill pipe or tools are removed from the hole). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Close Off

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

occludo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Close Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-l-o-o-s"

-1 letter: coffles.

-2 letters: coffle, locoes.

-3 letters: clefs, close, coffs, coles, coofs, cools, flocs, floes, fools, locos, loofs, loose, oleos, scoff, socle.

-4 letters: cels, clef, coff, cole, cols, coof, cool, coos, effs, floc, floe, foes, fool, loco, loof, loos, lose, offs, oleo, oles, self, sloe, sole, solo.

-5 letters: cel, col, coo, cos, eff, efs, elf, els, foe.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-f-f-l-o-o-s"
 

+5 letters: officeholders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Close Off


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6C 6F 73 65      4F 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101100 01101111 01110011 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#111 &#115 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 006F 0073 0065      004F 0066 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37788185712497272

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Close Off"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Czech

slovník, definice, překladèesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, checo

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedánský, dánština, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, dinamarquês, danés

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrancouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, francés

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionnìmec, nìmecký, tysker, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, alemán

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηřek, řecký, řeètina, græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, griego

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmaïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, húngaro

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalský, italština, ital, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugalský, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, portugués

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónšpanìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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