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Word: close (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • At a little distance; near.
  • Ireland, England|weather hot, humid, with no wind.
  • now|_|rare Closed, shut.
  • Intimate; well-loved.

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Noun:

  • A cathedral close.
  • An end of something.
  • British A street that ends in a dead end.
  • now|_|rare An enclosed field.
  • Scotland A very narrow overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.

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Verb:

  • pitching To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
  • computing To terminate a computer program or a window or file thereof.
  • marketing To make a sale.
  • surveying To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
  • To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
  • To move so that an opening is closed.
  • To obstruct (an opening).
  • To put an end to.

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