CLOSE UP meaning: Detailed view of small area

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word close up:

General (19 matching dictionaries)

close-up: Merriam-Webster
close-up, close up, close up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
close-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
close-up, close-up: Collins English Dictionary
close up: Vocabulary.com
Close-Up, Close-up, close-up: Wordnik
close-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
close-up, close up: Wiktionary
close-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
close-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
close-up, close up: Dictionary.com
Close-Up (The Kingston Trio album), Close-Up (toothpaste), Close Up (TV programme), Close Up (The Outsiders album), Close Up (UFO), Close Up (magazine), Close-up, Close up (disambiguation), Close up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
close up: Rhymezone
close up: FreeDictionary.org
close up: Mnemonic Dictionary
close-up, close up: TheFreeDictionary.com
close up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

close-up: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

close up: Legal dictionary
close up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

close-up, close up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

close up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Close-Up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)

Close-up: Nikonians Photo Glossary
Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
close-up (CU): Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (close up)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To move nearer together so that a gap is removed.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To shut a building or a business for a period of time.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) Of a cut or other wound: To heal.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become less 'open' or communicative; to shrink back.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, slang, Australia) To stop talking.

Similar:

keep mum, obstruct, shut up, impede, dummy up, occlude, clam up, belt up, button up, block, more...

Opposite:

distant, far

Types:

extreme close up, medium close up, long shot, establishing shot, more...

Phrases:

close up shop, extreme close up, close up lens, opposite of close up, close yourself from opening up, more...

Adjectives:

standing, au courant, by, close, endwise, out, through, high, outie, up, bye

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