Dictionary Definition
close adj
1 at or within a short distance in space or time
or having elements near each other; "close to noon"; "how close are
we to town?"; "a close formation of ships" [ant: distant]
2 close in relevance or relationship; "a close
family"; "we are all...in close sympathy with..."; "close kin"; "a
close resemblance" [ant: distant]
3 not far distant in time or space or degree or
circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are
near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near
thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she was
close to tears"; "had a close call" [syn: near] [ant: far]
4 rigorously attentive; strict and thorough;
"close supervision"; "paid close attention"; "a close study"; "kept
a close watch on expenditures"
5 marked by fidelity to an original; "a close
translation"; "a faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful
rendering of the observed facts" [syn: faithful]
6 (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched;
"a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game" [syn:
tight]
7 crowded; "close quarters" [syn: confining]
8 lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic";
"the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was
blue with smoke" [syn: airless, stuffy, unaired]
9 of textiles; "a close weave"; "smooth percale
with a very tight weave" [syn: tight]
10 strictly confined or guarded; "kept under
close custody"
11 confined to specific persons; "a close
secret"
12 fitting closely but comfortably; "a close fit"
[syn: snug, close-fitting]
13 used of hair or haircuts; "a close military
haircut"
14 giving or spending with reluctance; "our
cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his
money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing, near, penny-pinching]
15 inclined to secrecy or reticence about
divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her
friends kept close about it" [syn: closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped]
Noun
1 the temporal end; the concluding time; "the
stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market
was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of
the season" [syn: stopping
point, finale,
finis, finish, last, conclusion]
2 the last section of a communication; "in
conclusion I want to say..." [syn: conclusion, end, closing, ending]
1 near in time or place or relationship; "as the
wedding day drew near"; "stood near the door"; "don't shoot until
they come near"; "getting near to the true explanation"; "her
mother is always near"; "The end draws nigh"; "the bullet didn't
come close"; "don't get too close to the fire" [syn: near, nigh]
Verb
1 cease to operate or cause to cease operating;
"The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business
closes every night at 8 P.M." [syn: fold, shut down,
close
down] [ant: open]
2 complete a business deal, negotiation, or an
agreement; "We closed on the house on Friday"; "They closed the
deal on the building"
3 move so that an opening or passage is
obstructed; make shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window" [syn:
shut] [ant: open]
4 bar access to; "Due to the accident, the road
had to be closed for several hours"
5 finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.);
"The meeting was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board"
[ant: open]
6 draw near; "The probe closed with the space
station"
7 come to a close; "The concert closed with a
nocturne by Chopin" [syn: conclude]
9 come together, as if in an embrace; "Her arms
closed around her long lost relative" [syn: come
together]
10 unite or bring into contact or bring together
the edges of; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"
11 bring together all the elements or parts of;
"Management closed ranks"
12 engage at close quarters; "close with the
enemy"
13 be priced or listed when trading stops; "The
stock market closed high this Friday"; "My new stocks closed at $59
last night"
14 cause a window or an application to disappear
on a computer desktop [ant: open]
15 change one's body stance so that the forward
shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
16 fill or stop up; "Can you close the cracks
with caulking?" [syn: fill up]
17 finish a game in baseball by protecting a
lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second
inning"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
clauderePronunciation
- /kləʊz/ (RP), /kloʊz/ (US)
- /kl@Uz/ (RP), /kloUz/ (US)
Verb
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To move so that it closes its opening.
- Close the door behind you when you leave.
- Jim was listening to headphones with his eyes closed.
- Close the door behind you when you leave.
- To put an end to.
- close the session
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To make a sale.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
obstruct (an opening)
move (a door)
- Czech: zavřít
- Danish: lukke
- Dutch: sluiten
- Esperanto: fermi
- Ewe: tu
- Finnish: sulkea
- French: fermer
- Galician: pechar
- German: schließen
- Hebrew: לסגור (lisgor)
- Ido: Klozar
- Indonesian: tutup
- Interlingua: clauder
- Irish: dún, druid
- Italian: chiudere
- Japanese: 閉じる (とじる, tojiru), 閉める (しめる, shimeru)
- Korean: 닫다 (datda)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: داخستن
- Maltese: agħlaq
- Norwegian: lukke, stenge
- Polish: zamknąć, zamykać
- Portuguese: fechar, cerrar
- Romanian: închide
- Romansch: serrar
- Russian: закрывать , закрыть
- Scottish Gaelic: dùin
- Slovene: zapreti
- Spanish: cerrar
- Swedish: stänga
- Telugu: మూయు (మూయు)
put an end to
- Dutch: sluiten, beëindigen
- Esperanto: fermi, fini
- Finnish: lopettaa, sulkea, päättää
- French: clore, mettre fin à, terminer
- Galician: rematar, terminar, pór fin
- Hebrew: לסגור (Li'sgor)
- Indonesian: tutup
- Interlingua: clauder, concluder, terminar
- Italian: concludere, terminare
- Japanese: 閉じる (とじる, tojiru), 閉める (しめる, shimeru)
- Maltese: temm
- Norwegian: avslutte
- Polish: zamknąć, zamykać
- Portuguese: fechar, encerrar, concluir, terminar
- Romanian: termina, finisa
- Romansch: finir
- Russian: закрывать , закрыть ; заканчивать , закончить ; завершать , завершить
- Swedish: avsluta
- Telugu: ముగించు (mugiMchu)
to make smaller
- Finnish: pienentää
- Russian: сокращать , сократить
surveying: to have a vector sum of 0
- Finnish: sulkea
to make a sale
- Finnish: päättää (kauppa)
Noun
- An end of something.
- We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close.
Translations
end of something
- Finnish: päätös, loppu
- French: fin
- Italian: fine
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: کۆتایی
- Russian: закрытие, завершение, окончание
Etymology 2
claususPronunciation
- /kləʊs/ (RP), /kloʊs/ (US)
- /kl@Us/ (RP), /kloUs/ (US)
Adjective
- At a little distance; near.
- Is your house close?
- Intimate; well-loved.
- He is a close friend.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- He is a close friend.
- In the context of "Ireland|weather": hot, humid.
Derived terms
Translations
at a little distance
- Arabic: (qareeb)
- Czech: blízký
- Dutch: nabije, dichtbij
- Esperanto: proksima
- Finnish: lähellä
- French: proche
- Georgian: ახლო (akhlo)
- German: nah
- Hebrew: קרוב (qarov) , קרובה (qrova)
- Ido: proxim
- Indonesian: dekat
- Interlingua: proxime, vicin
- Italian: vicino, vicina
- Japanese: 近い (ちかい, chikai)
- Kurdish:
- Norwegian: nær
- Portuguese: próximo, vizinho, perto
- Russian: близкий
- Slovene: blizu
- Swedish: nära
intimate
- Czech: blízký
- Finnish: läheinen
- Russian: близкий
Synonyms
- (street): cul-de-sac
Translations
street
- Finnish: umpikuja
- French: cul-de-sac
- Russian: тупик
French
Verb form
closeExtensive Definition
Close may refer to:
In music:
- "Close", a song by Soul Asylum from their 1998 album Candy from a Stranger
Other:
People with the surname Close:
close in German: Close
close in French: Close
close in Portuguese: Close
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Autobahn, Spartan, US highway, abandonment, abbreviated, abort, about, about to be, abridged, abstruse, accented, accommodate, accost, accurate, adjacent, adjust, advance, agree, airless, airtight, alert, all but, alley, alleyway, almost, along toward, alongside, already in sight,
alveolar, angustifoliate, angustirostrate,
angustisellate,
angustiseptal,
apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, aposiopestic, approach, approaching, appropinquate, approximate, approximately, approximating, approximative, arcane, arena, arm-in-arm, around, arrange, arterial, arterial highway,
arterial street, artery,
articulated, as good
as, assiduous,
assimilated, at
close quarters, at hand, attached, attentive, autistic, autoroute, autostrada, avaricious, avenue, back, bang, bar, barricade, barytone, bashful, batten, batten down, battle, bear down on, bear down
upon, bear up, beclouded, belt highway,
bilabial, blind, blind alley, block, block up, blockade, bolt, bonded, boulevard, box, brawl, breakoff, breathless, breezeless, brewing, brief, bristling, broad, broil, brusque, buddy-buddy, buried, burning, button, button up, bypass, byway, cabalistic, cacuminal, camino real,
careful, carriageway, causeway, causey, cease, ceasing, cemented, censored, center, central, centralize, cerebral, cessation, chaussee, cheap, checked, cheek-by-jowl, chock, choke, choke off, cincture, circumferential,
circumscribed,
clap, clash, classified, climax, clinch, clipped, clos, close, close about, close at hand,
close by, close down, close in, close off, close tight, close up,
close with, close-fitting, close-knit, close-lipped,
close-textured, close-tongued, close-woven, closed, closefisted, closely, closemouthed, closing, clouded, collide, combat, come, come closer, come forward,
come near, come on, come to blows, come together, come up, coming, compact, compacted, compactly, comparable, compass, compass about, compendious, complete, completing, completion, compose, compressed, concealed, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, concentrated, concise, conclude, conclusion, concrete, condensed, confidential, confine, confined, confining, confront, congested, connect, conscientious, consolidated, consonant, consonantal, constant, constrict, constricted, contain, container, contend, contest, continuant, contract, contracted, converge, coop, corduroy road, correct, county road, court, courtyard, cover, covered, covert, crammed, crammed full, cramp, cramped, crawling, crescent, crisp, critical, croft, crowd, crowded, cryptic, cul-de-sac, culmination, curt, curtilage, cut, cut and thrust, dark, dead-end street, debar, decline, delicate, delimited field,
demanding, dense, densely, dental, desinence, desistance, detailed, determine, devoted, dike, direct, dirt road, discontinuance, discontinuation,
discontinue,
discreet, disregard, dissimilated, dissociable, docked, dog, dorsal, draw near, draw nigh,
drive, driveway, duel, dumb, dustproof, dusttight, eclipsed, economical of words,
elliptic, embay, embosom, embrace, enclasp, enclave, enclose, enclosure, encompass, encounter, end, ending, enfold, enigmatic, envelop, environ, enwrap, epigrammatic, esoteric, establish, evasive, even, exact, exacting, exchange blows,
exigent, express, expressway, exquisite, faithful, fall in with,
familiar, fast, fast by, fasten, fastened, fence, feud, field, fight, fight a duel, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, finish, finish up, finishing, firm, firmly, fix, fixed, flat, fold, fold up, forthcoming, forty, freeway, front, full, full development, funnel, fussy, fusty, future, gain upon, gasproof, gastight, gathering, give and take, give
satisfaction, glide,
glossal, glottal, glued, gluey, gnomic, go around, go round,
going to happen, grapple, grapple with, gravel
road, ground, guarded, guttural, hand and glove,
hand-in-hand, hard, hard
by, hardfisted,
heavily, heavy, hereabout, hereabouts, hermetic, hermetically sealed,
hid, hidden, high, highroad, highway, highways and byways,
homestretch,
homologous, hot, humid, hush-hush, ignore, ill-ventilated, illiberal, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, impenetrable, impermeable, in a cloud, in
a fog, in danger imminent, in eclipse, in prospect, in purdah, in
reserve, in spitting distance, in store, in the cards, in the
neighborhood, in the offing, in the vicinity, in the wind, in the
wings, in view, incapacious, incommodious, incommunicado, incompatible, indisposed to
talk, inerrable,
inerrant, infallible, inseparable, insociable, instant, intense, intent, intersect, interstate highway,
intimate, intonated, invest, involve, isthmian, isthmic, jam, jam-packed, jammed, join, jostle, joust, just about, key, kill, kraal, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, laconic, lane, lap, lapse, last lap, last round, last
stage, latch, latent, lateral, lax, light, lightproof, lighttight, like, limited, lingual, liquid, list, local road, lock, lock out, lock up, looming, lot, low, lowering, lurking, main drag, main road,
make, make up, massive, mathematical, maturation, maturity, meager, mean, meet, menacing, meticulous, mews, micrometrically precise,
microscopic,
mid, mingy, minuscule, minute, miserly, mix it up, monophthongal, mopey, mopish, morose, motorway, much at one, much the
same, muggy, mum, musty, mute, muted, mysterious, narrow, narrow the gap, nasal, nasalized, near, near at hand, near the mark,
nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nearing, nearish, nearly, nearly the same, nice, niggardly, nigh, nigh about, nighhand, nighish, nip, nongregarious, nonporous, not far, not far
from, not quite, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, obstruct, obturate, occlude, occlusive, occult, oilproof, oiltight, on the horizon, only
a step, open, oppressive, overhanging, overlook, oxytone, pack, packed, padlock, painstaking, palatal, palatalized, pale, paling, pally, palsy-walsy, parcel of
land, park, parkway, parsimonious, particular, patch, pave, paved road, pen, penny-pinching, penurious, perfection, perorate, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pike, pinch, pinchfisted, pinching, pinpoint, pitch, pitched, pithy, place, plank road, plat, plot, plot of ground, plumb, pointed, populous, posttonic, practically, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, preparing, pretty near,
primary highway, private, private road, privy, propinque, proximal, proximate, pruned, punctilious, punctual, quad, quadrangle, quarrel, quasi, quiet, rainproof, raintight, rassle, real estate, recondite, refined, relatable, religious, religiously exact,
relinquishment,
renunciation,
reserved, resolve, restricted, reticent, retroflex, right-of-way,
rigid, rigorous, ring road, riot, ripeness, road, roadbed, roadway, round, round about, rounded, rounding off, rounding
out, route nationale, row,
royal road, run a tilt, run together, same but different, save-all,
scant, scanty, scientific, scientifically
exact, scramble,
scrap, scratch, scrupulous, scrutinizing, scuffle, seal, seal off, seal up, sealed, searching, secluded, secluse, secondary road,
secret, secretive, section, secure, self-contained,
self-sufficient, semivowel, sententious, sequestered, serried, set, settle, settle with, severe, shifty, short, short and sweet, shortened, shut, shut down, shut fast, shut
off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, shut up shop,
shutdown, side-by-side,
sidle up to, sign, silent, similar, skirmish, slam, slender, smokeproof, smoketight, smothered, snap, snug, socially incompatible,
soft, solid, solidly, sonant, spar, sparing of words, speechless, speedway, square, squeeze, squeeze shut, stale, state highway, staunch, step up, sticky, stifle, stifled, stifling, stingy, stop, stop up, stopped, stopping, stormproof, stormtight, straighten out,
strait, strangle, strangulate, street, stressed, strict, strive, strong, struggle, stuck, stuffy, substantial, subtle, succinct, suffocate, suffocating, sullen, sultry, summary, superhighway, suppressed, surcease, surd, surround, suspend, swarming, switch off, syllabic, synopsized, taciturn, taped, taper, teeming, tense, terminate, termination, terminus, terrace, terse, that will be, theater, thereabout, thereabouts, thick, thick as thieves,
thick-growing, thickly,
thickset, thorough, thoroughfare, threatening, throaty, through street, thrust
and parry, thruway,
tight, tight-fisted,
tight-lipped, tightfisted, tilt, tiny, to come, to the point,
toft, toll road, tonal, tongue-tied, tonic, top secret, topping off,
tourney, township road,
tract, truncated, turn off, turnpike, tussle, twangy, ulterior, unaccented, unbreatheable, unclubbable, uncommunicative,
uncompanionable,
uncongenial, under
an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under
wraps, underground,
undeviating,
undisclosable,
undisclosed,
undivulgable,
undivulged, unerring, unfriendly, ungenerous, ungenial, unite, unknown, unloquacious, unrevealable, unrevealed, unrounded, unsociable, unsocial, unspoken, unstressed, untalkative, untellable, untold, unutterable, unvented, unventilated, unwhisperable, upcoming, velar, vicinal, viscid, viscose, viscous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, wage war, waiting, war, warm, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, weak, wedged, well-nigh, wide, wind up, windless, windproof, windtight, windup, within call, within
earshot, within hearing, within reach, word-bound, wordless, work out, wrap, wrapped in clouds, wrestle, wynd, yard, zip up, zipper