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Is there any difference between "closure" and "closing". Yes, closure is a deverbal noun, closing is a gerund/participle/-ing form. Closure indicates one complete instance of the action of the verb to close. Closing indicates the action of the verb to close that was uncompleted, or still in progress, at the time referred to.
0. I am trying to use a term that defines the action of opening /closing. For example if you are a shop owner and you open and close your shop at certain hours you can say we are open for trade at x.xx hours and close at x.xx. A way to describe this two actions is open/close shop for trade. what can I replace open/close with? single-word-requests.
You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here” is what a bar manager might say to his last remaining customers at closing time. “In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was ‘ you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here’” was cited in print in 1944.
For example, suppose today is the 22 of May and there is the submission date for a project is on the 25 of May. I could just say: As the deadline of the submission is on the 25 of May, we should work faster. The date 25 of May is near to some people but may not be near to others. If I add in the word "near" this way:
@Mari-LouA “When do you close” is fine imo and the only way that you would possibly get a date instead of a time would be if the store was closing permanently. – Laurel ♦ Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 9:41
8. This is the normal English language style when quoting more than one paragraph; you use the opening quotes at the start of each quoted paragraph, but only closing quotes on the last paragraph quoted. Indeed, if you look at the article you link to, you can see that this is precisely what they did. The first quote that you in turn quoted is in ...
5. There is an interesting and common figurative phrase, the walls are closing in, indicating that someone is trapped, panicked, running out of time, or doomed. There is a related question about the phrase here, but it doesn't deal with the history or origin of the phrase: Walls closing in. The phrase got a lot of attention recently when ...
Let me call it a day! Good evening (or night, depending on time)!| I'm leaving! Enjoy the rest of the day (if time is left of the workday) May I leave? (asking permission, if allowed to leave early). (Good)bye! I'm all done; heading home. Bye! You can be creative, but you don't want to sound 'outlandish', for sure!
Strange. There seems to be no doubt that the shop opens at 9 and closes at 5. It does not mean that it will be open throughout each hour between 9 and five. It closes at five. But we take the opposite view of the days of the week. Being open from Monday to Friday does not mean that the shop will be closed from the beginning of Friday till the ...
Time to go home, John. Let's call it quits. In this sense, quit is not used to mean that they are leaving their job for good but that they are leaving for the night. A related phrase is "quitting time": Ok, 5pm. It's quitting time. I'm going home.