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Close In
- verb -
- advance or converge on; "The police were closing in on him"
- surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"
Close To
- adverb - (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he''s about 30 years old"; "I''ve had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundre
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"
Close Up
- adverb -
- block passage through; "obstruct the path"
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"
- very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed"
Closeout
- noun - a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock
Closeted
- verb - confine to a small space, as for intensive work
Closeups
- noun - a photograph taken at close range
Closings
- noun -
- a concluding action
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap; "the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision"
- termination of operations; "they regretted the closure of the day care center"
- the act of closing something
Closured
- verb - terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion"
Closures
- noun - a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
- a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap; "the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision"
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
- terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion"
- termination of operations; "they regretted the closure of the day care center"
- the act of blocking
Clusters
- noun - a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"
- come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"