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Substantiivit
- (now rare) An enclosed field.
- An end or conclusion.
- (British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- A cathedral close.
- (legal) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.
Verbit
- (physical) To remove a gap.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (social) To finish, to terminate.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To come to an end.
- (marketing) To make a sale.
- (baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
Adjektiivit
- (now rare) Closed, shut.
- Narrow; confined.
- At a little distance; near.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- (legal) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
- Short.
- (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
- (archaic) Concise; to the point.
- (dated) Difficult to obtain.
- (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
Esimerkit
- a close contest
- a close prison
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
- Is your house close?
- He is a close friend.
- If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, [...] and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.
- a close prisoner
- He yet kept himself close because of Saul.
- her close intent
- a close alley; close quarters
- to cut grass or hair close
- The golden globe being put into a press, [...] the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.
- close reasoning
- Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.
- Money is close.
- a crusty old fellow, as close as a vice
- a close translation
- The patient was kept under close observation.
- closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.
- He has closed the last two games for his team.
- Jim was listening to headphones with his eyes closed.
- What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
- If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
- The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader.
- to close the ranks of an army
- They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest.
- close the session; to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction
- One frugal supper did our studies close.
- The debate closed at six o'clock.
- Close the door behind you when you leave.
- The depth closed me round about.
- But now Thou dost Thyself immure and close / In some one corner of a feeble heart; / Where yet both Sinne and Satan, Thy old foes, / Do pinch and straiten Thee, and use much art / To gain Thy thirds' and little part.
- We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close.
- His long and troubled life was drawing to a close.
- The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.
- At every close she made, the attending throng / Replied, and bore the burden of the song.
- There is nothinge so close, that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.
- From a close bower this dainty music flowed.
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