close
Definition of close:
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part of speech: noun
An inclosed place: a small inclosed field: a narrow passage of a street.
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part of speech: adverb
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: adverb
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part of speech: noun
Conclusion; end; a pause; cessation.
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part of speech: noun
The end; conclusion.
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part of speech: verb
To shut; to make fast; to end or finish; to cover; to inclose; to come or bring together; to unite.
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part of speech: noun
In Scot., a narrow passage or entry; a courtyard; an inclosure.
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part of speech: adverb
Closely.
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: adjective
Shut; having no vent or outlet; confined; compact; solid or dense; concise; brief; very near; private; narrow; crafty; penurious; warm; oppressive, as the weather.
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: adjective
Shut up: with no opening: confined, unventilated: narrow: near, in time or place: compact: crowded: hidden: reserved: crafty.
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Common misspellings:
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- cloze (0.3%)
- colose (0.6%)
- closre (0.3%)
- clseo (0.3%)
- colse (9.9%)
- closs (0.9%)
- cluse (0.3%)
- clos (8.5%)
- convient (0.3%)
- closey (0.2%)
- closeing (0.2%)
- closeand (0.3%)
- cvlsoe (0.6%)
- clse (3.3%)
- cloe (2.2%)
- upclose (0.3%)
- closee (0.6%)
- cloce (0.6%)
- cloase (2.2%)
- clsed (0.3%)
- clouse (1.7%)
- cole (0.8%)
- cl (0.2%)
- clase (0.3%)
- clost (7.8%)
- clode (0.3%)
- vlose (0.3%)
- losed (0.2%)
- closeby (0.5%)
- cloae (0.3%)
- closeup (0.2%)
- closse (0.6%)
- closr (0.8%)
- cose (6.9%)
- clsoe (40.3%)
- conveint (0.2%)
- cloes (2.7%)
- closte (0.5%)
- lcose (0.6%)
- reclose (0.5%)
- lse (0.3%)
- clsose (0.6%)
- cloaswe (0.3%)
- clopse (0.3%)
- coles (0.3%)
- iclose (0.3%)
Usage examples for close:
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I must follow close to him.
"Heart Talks" – Charles Wesley Naylor -
Several times they passed close to Indians.
"An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)" – Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody) -
It must close must it not?
"Franklin Kane" – Anne Douglas Sedgwick -
They were now close to the Villa du Lac.
"The Chink in the Armour" – Marie Belloc Lowndes