curtain: Meaning and Definition of

cur•tain

1. a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc.
2. a movable or folding screen used for similar purposes.
3. a window shade.
4. an 8:30 curtain.
1. a set of hanging drapery for concealing all or part of the stage or set from the view of the audience.
2. the act or time of raising or opening a curtain at the start of a performance:an 8:30 curtain.
3. the end of a scene or act indicated by the closing or falling of a curtain:first-act curtain.
4. an effect, line, or plot solution at the conclusion of a performance:a strong curtain; weak curtain.
5. music signaling the end of a radio or television performance.
6. (used as a direction in a script of a play to indicate that a scene or act is concluded.)
5. anything that shuts off, covers, or conceals: a curtain of artillery fire.
6. a relatively flat or featureless extent of wall between two pavilions or the like.
7. the part of a wall or rampart connecting two bastions, towers, or the like.
8. the end; death, esp. by violence: It looked like curtains for another mobster.
9. to draw the curtain on a long career of public service.
1. to bring to a close:to draw the curtain on a long career of public service.
2. to keep secret.
10. to lift the curtain on a new scientific discovery.
1. to commence; start.
2. to make known or public; disclose:to lift the curtain on a new scientific discovery.

1. to provide, shut off, conceal, or adorn with, or as if with, a curtain.