| close | |
| 1. v. (physical) To remove a gap. | |
| 2. v. To obstruct (an opening). | |
| 3. v. To move so that an opening is closed. | |
| Close the door behind you when you leave. | |
| Jim was listening to headphones with his eyes closed. | |
| 4. v. To make (e.g. a gap) smaller. | |
| The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader. | |
| to close the ranks of an army | |
| 5. v. To grapple; to engage in close combat. | |
| 6. v. (social) To finish, to terminate. | |
| 7. v. To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate. | |
| close the session; to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction | |
| 8. v. To come to an end. | |
| The debate closed at six o'clock. | |
| 9. v. (marketing) To make a sale. | |
| 10. v. (baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game. | |
| He has closed the last two games for his team. | |
| 11. v. (figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc. | |
| 12. v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine. | |
| 13. v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon. | |
| 14. n. An end or conclusion. | |
| We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close. | |
| 15. n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. | |
| 16. n. A grapple in wrestling. | |
| 17. n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence. | |
| 18. n. (music) A double bar marking the end. | |
| 19. adj. (now rare) Closed, shut. | |
| 20. adj. Narrow; confined. | |
| a close alley; close quarters | |
| 21. adj. At a little distance; near. | |
| Is your house close? | |
| 22. adj. Intimate; well-loved. | |
| He is a close friend. | |
| 23. adj. (legal) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held. | |
| 24. adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude. | |
| 25. adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind. | |
| 26. adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate. | |
| 27. adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded. | |
| a close prisoner | |
| 28. adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden. | |
| 29. adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced. | |
| a close contest | |
| 30. adj. Short. | |
| to cut grass or hair close | |
| 31. adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact. | |
| 32. adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point. | |
| close reasoning | |
| 33. adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain. | |
| Money is close. | |
| 34. adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy. | |
| 35. adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact. | |
| a close translation | |
| 36. adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict. | |
| The patient was kept under close observation. | |
| 37. adj. Marked, evident. | |
| 38. n. (now rare) An enclosed field. | |
| 39. n. (British) A street that ends in a dead end. | |
| 40. n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor. | |
| 41. n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement. | |
| 42. n. A cathedral close. | |
| 43. n. (legal) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed. | |
