Close

Close the door behind you when you leave.

Many flowers close at night.

Jim closed his eyes and reclined back in his chair.

The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader.

to close the ranks of an army

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

They closed the road for the festival.

Ice has closed the channel to shipping.

As we penetrated further, the forest closed around us.

He has closed his mind to new ideas.

1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Phillip II They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest.

The committee chairman made a few concluding remarks and then closed the session.

to close a bargain;   to close a course of instruction

One frugal supper did our studies close.

If these brief lays, of Sorrow born, ⁠Were taken to be such as closed ⁠Grave doubts and answers here proposed, Then these were such as men might scorn: […]

The debate closed at six o'clock.

Nirvana closed the festival.

He has closed the last two games for his team.

We are closing the phone lines at 9 pm.

Your account has been closed because of non-payment.

They closed the airport because of a bomb scare.

Phone lines will close in ten minutes.

Our options are closing fast.

The supermarket closes at eight o'clock.

Lots of shops in the town centre have closed because of the recession.

The FTSE 100 closed up 1.2%.

Whoever closed last night forgot to turn off the closet light.

Close the file when you have finished reading data.

This app has a bug: when you try to sort a large spreadsheet, it closes.

Please close the lights, the (electric) fan, the TV.

The depth closed me round about.

But now Thou dost Thyself immure and close / In some one corner of a feeble heart; / Where yet both Sinne and Satan, Thy old foes, / Do pinch and straiten Thee, and use much art / To gain Thy thirds' and little part.

We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close.

His long and troubled life was drawing to a close.

The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.

Regardless of the situation, the minute you feel it's time for the close, try it.

The intestine shocke, And furious cloze of ciuill Butchery.

At every close she made, the attending throng / Replied, and bore the burden of the song.

Is your house close?

Christmas is getting close.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

No, but you were close.

We were so close to winning!

She wasn't quite in tears but she was close.

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

Phew! That was close!

Their ages are quite close.

His face is a close fit with the artist's impression.

It was a close contest.

a close translation; a close copy

He is a close friend.

My brother and I were close when we were younger, but not so much now.

For Christmas we just had a few close relatives round.

a close colleague; a close ally

We have a close affiliation with the college.

I keep in close contact with my former colleagues.

a close alley; close quarters; close confines

[...] he took to wondering what possible temptation could have induced a dingy-looking fly that was crawling over his pantaloons, to come into a close prison, when he had the choice of so many airy situations [...]

For this job it's best to use wood with a close grain.

These trousers are a close fit.

He was captured and kept a close prisoner.

The pregnancy was a close secret.

His lawyers have so far kept this information close.

If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, [...] and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.

1907, Algernon Blackwood, The Dance of Death …the artificial light and close air of his high office stool …

He sighed drowsily. The atmosphere of the auction room was close; you weren't allowed to smoke; and altogether he was beginning to regret that he had come.

The golden globe being put into a press, [...] the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.

The patient was kept under close observation.

Keep a close eye on him.

I must acknowledge that hitherto I have discover’d no other way to keep our Thoughts cloſe to their Buſineſs, but the endeavouring as much as we can, and by frequent Attention and Application, getting the habit of Attention and Application.

This issue merits close examination.

Unfortunately, on close reading of the Ts and Cs, it appears that your insurance does not cover this.

to cut grass or hair close

There is nothinge so close, that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.

As the alchymists were assiduous workmen—as they mixed all the metals, salts, &c... and subjected such mixtures to the action of heat in close vessels, their labours were occasionally repaid by the discovery of new substances...

I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.

Crest, a cockatrice, wings close, vert, combed and wattled gu.

Sable, an eagle close or - ROPER, Derby. / Sable, a chevron ermine between three eagles close argent - GAMES, Leicester, granted 1614. / Sable a chevron between three eagles close argent - JERVOISE.

Arms : Azure, a chevron ermine between three cross - crosslets fitchy argent. Crest : An eagle close argent, ducally gorged.

Money is close.

Some of these parties have not paid their last payment, because money was close last fall.

We are told out West that the reason money is so close now is because so large an amount has been invested in real estate. I cannot understand why that would make any difference if that money has been sent from one section of the country into another for the purpose of buying real estate. Why should it make any difference as to money being close? We are told in the East large amounts have been invested in the large manufacturing plants, such as the steel plants, etc. but if the money has been invested there it has simply changed hands, and why should that make any difference?

But there is reason underlying this confusion: time as well as money is close these days and a small wardrobe of hats can be very boring.

Yet were these Florentines as self-retired / In hungry pride and gainful cowardice, / As two close Hebrews in that land inspired, / Paled in and vineyarded from beggar-spies; [...]

[...] he was a crusty old fellow, as close as a vice.

Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless bin of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.

He yet kept himself close because of Saul.

her close intent

close reasoning

Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.

The car behind was following too close and could not brake in time.

Please stay close together.

Look close at the pictures.

close-packed, close-knit, close-fitting

The woman nodded at a nearby flight of steps. 'This is my close. We can talk in here. Come on.'.

closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.