If these brief lays, of Sorrow born, Were taken to be such asclosed Grave doubts and answers here proposed, Then these were such as men might scorn:[…]
Lots of shops in the town centre haveclosed because of the recession.
The FTSE 100closed up 1.2%.
(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.
Whoeverclosed last night forgot to turn off the closet light.
But now Thou dost Thyself immure andclose / 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.
Due to the near-opposite meanings relating to fluid flow and electrical components, these usages are deprecated in safety-critical instructions, with the wordsto "on" orto "off" preferred, so instead ofClose valve A; close switch B useTurn valve A to OFF; turn switch B to ON.
[…] 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.
Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state);near.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comesclose. 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.
(in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
Phew! That wasclose!
Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
Their ages are quiteclose.
His face is aclose fit with the artist's impression.
It was aclose contest.
Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
aclose translation; aclose copy
Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
He is aclose friend.
My brother and I wereclose when we were younger, but not so much now.
For Christmas we just had a fewclose relatives round.
aclose colleague; aclose ally
Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
[...] he took to wondering what possible temptation could have induced a dingy-looking fly that was crawling over his pantaloons, to come into aclose prison, when he had the choice of so many airy situations [...]
Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
For this job it's best to use wood with aclose grain.
These trousers are aclose fit.
Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
He was captured and kept aclose prisoner.
Tightly restricted in availability.
The pregnancy was aclose secret.
His lawyers have so far kept this informationclose.
(law) Of a corporation or other business entity,closely held.
Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling oflassitude.
1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], London:[…]William Rawley[…];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…],→OCLC:
If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the airclose, [...] and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.
He sighed drowsily. The atmosphere of the auction room wasclose; you weren't allowed to smoke; and altogether he was beginning to regret that he had come.
I must acknowledge that hitherto I have discover’d no other way to keep our Thoughtscloſe to their Buſineſs, but the endeavouring as much as we can, and by frequent Attention and Application, getting the habit of Attention and Application.
Carefully done, detailed.
This issue meritsclose examination.
Unfortunately, onclose reading of the Ts and Cs, it appears that your insurance does not cover this.
Accurate; precise.(Can we add anexample for this sense? )
As the alchymists were assiduous workmen—as they mixed all the metals, salts, &c... and subjected such mixtures to the action of heat inclose 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 redmoreen curtain nearlyclose, I wasshrined in double retirement.
(linguistics,phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
(heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically alsostatant);(of wings) in this posture.An eagle close.
1780, Joseph Edmondson,A Complete Body of Heraldry:
Crest, a cockatrice, wingsclose, vert, combed and wattled gu.
1894, Henry Gough, James Parker,A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page215:
Sable, an eagleclose or - ROPER, Derby. / Sable, a chevron ermine between three eaglesclose argent - GAMES, Leicester, granted 1614. / Sable a chevron between three eaglesclose argent - JERVOISE.
1902, Lincoln's Inn (London, England),The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, page458:
Arms : Azure, a chevron ermine between three cross - crosslets fitchy argent. Crest : An eagleclose argent, ducally gorged.
1886, “Leases of Lands in the Indian Territory”, inUnited States Congressional Serial Set, volume2362, page184:
Some of these parties have not paid their last payment, because money wasclose last fall.
1903,Gunton's Magazine of American Economics and Political Science, page249:
We are told out West that the reason money is soclose 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 beingclose? 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?
1965,Country Life - Volume 137, page326:
But there is reason underlying this confusion: time as well as money isclose 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 twoclose Hebrews in that land inspired, / Paled in and vineyarded from beggar-spies; [...]
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.
(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
^John Bouvier (1839), “CLOSE”, inA Law Dictionary,[…], volumesI (A–K), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson,[…], successors to Nicklin & Johnson,[…],→OCLC.
