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Clogging
- verb - become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
- coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots"
- dance a clog dance
- fill to excess so that function is impaired; "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details"
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden; "horses were clogged until they were tamed"
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today"
- preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"
Cloister
- noun - a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
- residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
- seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office"
- surround with a cloister, as of a garden
- surround with a cloister; "cloister the garden"
- The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City, specializing in European medieval art and architecture, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods.
Clonings
- noun - a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)
Clopping
- verb - make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface
Clorella
- - any alga of the genus Chlorella.
Closable
- unknown - Able to be closed
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"