Seen close-up, things have a way of showing their defects, their innate ugliness.
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Close-up
//ˈkləʊsʌp//
Synonyms for "close-up" (7 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
20 translations across 17 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 特寫 /特写 noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Danish
1 entries- nærbillede noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Esperanto
1 entries- foto de proksima distanco noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Finnish
1 entries- lähikuva noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
French
2 entries- gros plan noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
- plan rapproché noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
German
1 entries- Nahaufnahme noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Hebrew
1 entries- תַּקְרִיב noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Icelandic
1 entries- nærmynd noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Italian
1 entries- primo piano noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Japanese
1 entries- クローズアップ noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Korean
1 entries- 클로즈업 noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nærbilde noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- nærbilde noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
- nærbilete noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Persian
1 entries- کلوزآپ noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Polish
1 entries- zbliżenie noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Portuguese
2 entries- close noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
- close-up noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Spanish
1 entries- primer plano noun (photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Pioneer 10 returned the first close-up pictures of Jupiter, measured the temperature of Jupiter's atmosphere, and mapped its magnetic field.
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Pioneer 11 flew past Saturn and its moon Titan in 1979 during which the first close-up images of that planet and its rings were radioed to Earth.
Source: tatoeba (3958374)
In 1986, four and one-half years after visiting Saturn, Voyager 2 made the first close-up survey of Uranus.
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