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▸ verb: (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
▸ verb: (transitive) To obstruct or block.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
▸ verb: (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
▸ verb: To grapple; to engage in close combat.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
▸ verb: To finish.
▸ verb: (transitive) To end or conclude.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
▸ verb: (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
▸ verb: (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
▸ verb: (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
▸ verb: (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
▸ verb: To make or become non-operational or unavailable for use.
▸ verb: (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
▸ verb: (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
▸ verb: (Philippines, Quebec) To turn off; to switch off.
▸ verb: (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
▸ verb: (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
▸ noun: An end or conclusion.
▸ noun: The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
▸ noun: (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
▸ noun: A grapple in wrestling.
▸ noun: (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
▸ noun: (music) A double bar marking the end.
▸ noun: (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
▸ adjective: Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.
▸ adjective: At little distance; near in space or time.
▸ adjective: Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
▸ adjective: (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
▸ adjective: Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
▸ adjective: Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
▸ adjective: Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
▸ adjective: Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
▸ adjective: Compressed, restricted, constrained, etc.
▸ adjective: (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
▸ adjective: Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
▸ adjective: Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
▸ adjective: Tightly restricted in availability.
▸ adjective: (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
▸ adjective: Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
▸ adjective: (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
▸ adjective: (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
▸ adjective: Rigorous, careful, etc.
▸ adjective: Attentive; undeviating; strict.
▸ adjective: Carefully done, detailed.
▸ adjective: Accurate; precise.
▸ adjective: Short.
▸ adjective: (now rare) Closed, shut.
▸ adjective: (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
▸ adjective: (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
▸ adjective: (dated) Difficult to obtain.
▸ adjective: (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
▸ adjective: (archaic) Concise; to the point.
▸ adjective: Marked, evident.
▸ adverb: In a close manner (limited contexts; more often closely).
▸ adverb: So as to leave or create little distance or space between objects.
▸ adverb: Carefully, in detail.
▸ adverb: In combination (sometimes potentially ambiguous between adverb and adjective).
▸ noun: (now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field, especially a field enclosed around a (usually religious) building.
▸ noun: (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
▸ noun: (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
▸ noun: (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
▸ noun: A cathedral close.
▸ noun: (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
▸ noun: A surname.
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▸ verb: (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
▸ verb: (transitive) To obstruct or block.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
▸ verb: (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
▸ verb: To grapple; to engage in close combat.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
▸ verb: To finish.
▸ verb: (transitive) To end or conclude.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
▸ verb: (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
▸ verb: (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
▸ verb: (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
▸ verb: (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
▸ verb: To make or become non-operational or unavailable for use.
▸ verb: (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
▸ verb: (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
▸ verb: (Philippines, Quebec) To turn off; to switch off.
▸ verb: (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
▸ verb: (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
▸ noun: An end or conclusion.
▸ noun: The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
▸ noun: (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
▸ noun: A grapple in wrestling.
▸ noun: (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
▸ noun: (music) A double bar marking the end.
▸ noun: (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
▸ adjective: Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.
▸ adjective: At little distance; near in space or time.
▸ adjective: Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
▸ adjective: (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
▸ adjective: Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
▸ adjective: Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
▸ adjective: Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
▸ adjective: Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
▸ adjective: Compressed, restricted, constrained, etc.
▸ adjective: (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
▸ adjective: Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
▸ adjective: Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
▸ adjective: Tightly restricted in availability.
▸ adjective: (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
▸ adjective: Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
▸ adjective: (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
▸ adjective: (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
▸ adjective: Rigorous, careful, etc.
▸ adjective: Attentive; undeviating; strict.
▸ adjective: Carefully done, detailed.
▸ adjective: Accurate; precise.
▸ adjective: Short.
▸ adjective: (now rare) Closed, shut.
▸ adjective: (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
▸ adjective: (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
▸ adjective: (dated) Difficult to obtain.
▸ adjective: (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
▸ adjective: (archaic) Concise; to the point.
▸ adjective: Marked, evident.
▸ adverb: In a close manner (limited contexts; more often closely).
▸ adverb: So as to leave or create little distance or space between objects.
▸ adverb: Carefully, in detail.
▸ adverb: In combination (sometimes potentially ambiguous between adverb and adjective).
▸ noun: (now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field, especially a field enclosed around a (usually religious) building.
▸ noun: (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
▸ noun: (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
▸ noun: (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
▸ noun: A cathedral close.
▸ noun: (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ Also see close
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