Usually means: Near in space or relationship.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Close, close: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. close, close, the close: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. close: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. close: Collins English Dictionary
  5. close: Vocabulary.com
  6. Close, close: Wordnik
  7. close: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Close, close: Wiktionary
  9. close: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. close: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. close: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. close: Dictionary.com
  13. close (adj.), close (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. close: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CLOSE, Close (Kim Wilde album), Close (Marvin Sapp album), Close (Nick Jonas song), Close (Sean Bonniwell album), Close (Sub Focus song), Close (To the Edit), Close (We Stroke the Flames), Close (film), Close (system call), Close (to the Edit), Close: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Close: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. close: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. close: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. close: Free Dictionary
  20. close: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. close: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. close: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  23. close: Rhymezone

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. close: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. CLOSE: Accounting Glossary
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Close: Investopedia
  9. Close (street), close: Legal dictionary
  10. Close: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. close: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Close (street), close: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Close (street), close: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. CLOSE: Acronym Finder
  4. close: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. -close: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. close, close: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. close, close: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Close: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See closable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) 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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