close
verb
uk
/kləʊz/ us
/kloʊz/close verb (NOT OPEN)
A1 [ I or T ]
- closeCan you close the door behind you?
- shutI shut the door so the cat couldn't get out.
- snap shutHe snapped his briefcase shut and walked out of the office.
- click shutThe door clicked shut.
- slamPlease don't slam the door.
- The council decided to close the library and now the building stands empty.
- Is it all right if I close the window?
- All 2,500 employees went on strike in protest at the decision to close the factory.
- Unless we find some new funding soon, the youth centre will have to close.
- The flowers open in the morning but close again in the afternoon.
close verb (END)
C2 [ I or T ]
to end, or to cause something to do this:
B2 [ I or T ]
(of a business, organization, or business arrangement) to stop operating; to cause something to stop operating:
close an account I closed that bank account when I came to London.
- close downWith sales down, the company closed one factory down and reduced the workforce at another.
- closeMany of the shops in the High Street have closed recently.
- shut downThe bookshop is shutting down after 25 years of business.
- shutUK Several of the bank's local branches are shutting.
- shut up shopUK The seaside businesses all shut up shop during the winter.
- go/put out of businessMy favourite ice cream shop went out of business last summer.
- She spoke against the decision to close the college.
- The local council has decreed that the hospital should close.
- We had to close our London office - with the rent so high it just wasn't economic.
- Sales have fallen badly this year, to the extent that we will have to close some of our shops.
- The country's government has come under fire for its decision to close the mines.
- abandon
- abandonment
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- brake
- cure
- give over
- halt
- hang
- jack something in
- kill something stone-dead idiom
- lay
- lid
- snap
- snuff something out
- stamp on something
- stamp something out
- stanch
- staunch
Expresiones
Verbos frasales
close
noun
close noun (END)
Ver también
- endThis mammal roamed the steppes during the end of the last Ice Age.
- closeStock prices were up 6 percent at the close of the trading day.
- culminationThis starring role in a West End musical is the culmination of her years of hard work in local theatres.
- completionAt the completion of the exam, please return the materials to the proctor's desk and exit the room quietly.
- endpointBoth parties agree that they have reached a suitable endpoint to the negotiations.
close noun (ROAD)
close
adjective
uk
/kləʊs/ us
/kloʊs/close adjective (RELATIONSHIP)
close family There weren't many people at the funeral - just close family.
close bond In those early months, there's a very close bond between mother and child.
a close community
A2
close friend Mira is one of my closest friends.
close to Her relationship isn't good with her father, but she's very close to her mother.
- Did you form any close friendships while you were at college?
- Historically, there have always been close links between France and Scotland.
- All her close relatives came to the wedding.
- She is one of the president's closest advisers.
- We haven't always been close, but she was there for me when I needed her.
- anti-family
- aunt
- auntie
- baby daddy
- baby mama
- family man
- father
- fatherhood
- filial
- filially
- kinship
- kinsman
- kinswoman
- kith and kin
- long-lost
- relationally
- relationship
- relative
- removed
- second cousin
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close adjective (CAREFUL)
- attention span
- attentiveness
- baby
- be good, and if you can't be good, be careful idiom
- be on (your) guard idiom
- egg
- get religion idiom
- guard
- hang
- hang on/upon something
- have a care idiom
- religion
- revolve
- revolve around someone/something
- safety
- safety first idiom
- see past something
- sit
- the/a glare of something idiom
- zero
close adjective (SECRETIVE)
- anonymity
- anonymization
- anonymize
- anonymous
- anonymously
- cryptography
- data protection
- dead men tell no tales idiom
- dissimulate
- dissimulation
- official secret
- on the quiet idiom
- privacy
- privacy settings
- private
- unconfessed
- under the table idiom
- under wraps idiom
- undisclosed
- unrevealed
close adjective (LACKING AIR)
used to describe weather or air conditions in which it is difficult to breathe and it is uncomfortably warm:
close
adjective, adverb
uk
/kləʊs/ us
/kloʊs/close adjective, adverb (NEAR)
close to Don't get too close to that dog, Rosie.
close to tears Emma looked close to tears (= almost going to cry).
- approachA stranger approached and asked to have her picture taken with him.
- come/get closerThe swarm of bees was coming closer and closer.
- come/get nearerAs she came nearer the building the movement of the crowd became slower.
- draw closer/nearerThe holidays are drawing closer.
- come upA stranger came up to me and shook my hand.
- walk, go, etc. upI went up to him and asked him who he was.
close adjective, adverb (SIMILAR)
C1
having only a small difference:
He came second in the race, but it was very close.
close resemblance Both children bear a very close resemblance to their father.
- similarI have a sofa quite similar to yours.
- likeShe's a lot like her mother.
- alikeThe girls look alike.
- closeMy cousin and I are quite close in age.
- something likeI was worried something like this would happen.
