締め・〆|しめshime[2]odaka (tail-high)

1. nountying up; binding; fastening; tightening
2. nountotal; sum
3. nounconclusion (e.g. of a gathering); end; finish; rounding off
4. nounfinal meal after a drinking party
5. noun, fooddish made after eating a hot pot by adding rice or noodles to the leftover broth
6. noundeadline; closing; cut-off
7. noun, martial artschoking technique (in judo); stranglehold
8. nounclosure markwritten as 〆 over the sealable flap of an envelope
9. countercounter for bundles (of wood, cotton, etc.)
10. countercounter for reams of 2000 sheets of Japanese writing paper

• Related総締めそうじめNeutralA grand total or sum, and by extension the person in overall charge; it takes only the 'total' sense of 「締め」.
• Related締め高しめだかWrittenThe final total of amounts or sums of money; a business term in written/formal prose, used mainly for settling accounts.
• AntonymゆるめNeutralLoosening or being somewhat loose; the opposite of the tightening sense of 「締め」.
• Antonym解きNeutralUntying or undoing something fastened; the opposite of the tying-up, tightening sense of 「締め」.

「締め」covers tightening, deadlines and settlement, and wrapping up, as in 「締めのラーメン」 or 「月末締め」; for a grand total say 「総締め」; the opposites are 「緩め」 and 「解き」.

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1. 注連縄しめなわの略称りゃくしょう。
2. 場所ばしょを決きめ、ある領域りょういきへの出入でいりを禁止きんししたり木きを立たてたり縄なわを張はったりすること。その標識ひょうしき。
3. しめること。
4. 合計ごうけい。総計そうけい。
5. 手紙てがみの封じ目ふうじめに書かいてあるしるし。
6. 終おわり。最後さいご。
7. （接尾辞せつびじ）半紙はんし、ちり紙がみなどを数かぞえる単位たんい。
8. （接尾辞せつびじ）木綿もめん、材木ざいもくなどの束たばねたものを数かぞえる単位たんい。
9. 下した一段いちだん活用かつよう動詞どうし「しめる」の未然形みぜんけい・連用形れんようけい。
10. 助動詞じょどうし「しめる」の未然形みぜんけい・連用形れんようけい。