Close

Verb

 * 1) To obstruct (an opening).
 * 2) To move so that an opening is closed.
 * 3) To put an end to.
 * 4) To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
 * 5)  To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
 * 6)  To make a sale.
 * 7)  To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
 * 8)  To terminate a computer program or a window or file thereof.

Noun

 * 1) An end of something.
 * 2)  An enclosed field.
 * 3)  A street that ends in a dead end.
 * 4)  A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
 * 5) A cathedral close.

Adjective

 * 1)  Closed, shut.
 * 2) At a little distance; near.
 * 3) Intimate; well-loved.
 * 4)  hot, humid, with no wind.

Adjectives for Close
summary; speedy; rapid; long-expected; official; bloody; glorious; victorious; tragic; rollicking; undramatic.

Adverbs for Close
securely; peremptorily; lazily; reluctantly; abruptly; grimly; instantly; spasmodically; virtually; unexpectedly; wistfully; hermetically; discreetly; summarily; officially; victoriously; tragically.

Synonyms for Close

 * close off, close up, cover, shut, shut off
 * shut
 * end, finish, terminate, wind up, close down
 * narrow
 * close out, exit
 * end, finale
 * cul-de-sac
 * close by, near, nearby
 * intimate
 * muggy, oppressive

Antonyms for Close

 * open
 * open
 * begin, commence, initiate, start
 * extend, widen
 * open, start
 * beginning, start
 * distant, far, far away, far off
 * aloof, cool, distant

Derived terms
close down; close in; close off; close one's eyes; close out; close ranks; close the face; close up; close call; closely ; closeness; close-up;

Thesaurus
alongside, already in sight, alveolar, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, aposiopestic, approach, approaching, appropinquate, approximate, approximately, approximating, approximative, arcane, arena, arm-in-arm, around, arrange, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, articulated, as good as, assiduous, assimilated, at close quarters, at hand, attached, attentive, autistic, autoroute, autostrada, avaricious, avenue, back, bang, bar, barricade, barytone, bashful, batten, batten down, battle, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up, beclouded, belt highway, bilabial, blind, blind alley, block, block up, blockade, bolt, bonded, boulevard, box, brawl, breakoff, breathless, breezeless, brewing, brief, bristling, broad, broil, brusque, buddy-buddy, buried, burning, button, button up, bypass, byway, cabalistic, cacuminal, camino real, careful, carriageway, causeway, causey, cease, ceasing, cemented, censored, center, central, centralize, cerebral, cessation, chaussee, cheap, checked, cheek-by-jowl, chock, choke, choke off, cincture, circumferential, circumscribed, clap, clash, classified, climax, clinch, clipped, clos, close, close about, close at hand, close by, close down, close in, close off, close tight, close up, close with, close-fitting, close-knit, close-lipped, close-textured, close-tongued, close-woven, closed, closefisted, closely, closemouthed, closing, clouded, collide, combat, come, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come to blows, come together, come up, coming, compact, compacted, compactly, comparable, compass, compass about, compendious, complete, completing, completion, compose, compressed, concealed, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, concentrated, concise, conclude, conclusion, concrete, condensed, confidential, confine, confined, confining, confront, congested, connect, conscientious, consolidated, consonant, consonantal, constant, constrict, constricted, contain, container, contend, contest, continuant, contract, contracted, converge, coop, corduroy road, correct, county road, court, courtyard, cover, covered, covert, crammed, crammed full, cramp, cramped, crawling, crescent, crisp, critical, croft, crowd, crowded, cryptic, cul-de-sac, culmination, curt, curtilage, cut, cut and thrust, dark, dead-end street, debar, decline, delicate, delimited field, demanding, dense, densely, dental, desinence, desistance, detailed, determine, devoted, dike, direct, dirt road, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinue, discreet, disregard, dissimilated, dissociable, docked, dog, dorsal, draw near, draw nigh, drive, driveway, duel, dumb, dustproof, dusttight, eclipsed, economical of words, elliptic, embay, embosom, embrace, enclasp, enclave, enclose, enclosure, encompass, encounter, end, ending, enfold, enigmatic, envelop, environ, enwrap, epigrammatic, esoteric, establish, evasive, even, exact, exacting, exchange blows, exigent, express, expressway, exquisite, faithful, fall in with, familiar, fast, fast by, fasten, fastened, fence, feud, field, fight, fight a duel, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, finish, finish up, finishing, firm, firmly, fix, fixed, flat, fold, fold up, forthcoming, forty, freeway, front, full, full development, funnel, fussy, fusty, future, gain upon, gasproof, gastight, gathering, give and take, give satisfaction, glide, glossal, glottal, glued, gluey, gnomic, go around, go round, going to happen, grapple, grapple with, gravel road, ground, guarded, guttural, hand and glove, hand-in-hand, hard, hard by, hardfisted, heavily, heavy, hereabout, hereabouts, hermetic, hermetically sealed, hid, hidden, high, highroad, highway, highways and byways, homestretch, homologous, hot, humid, hush-hush, ignore, ill-ventilated, illiberal, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, impenetrable, impermeable, in a cloud, in a fog, in danger imminent, in eclipse, in prospect, in purdah, in reserve, in spitting distance, in store, in the cards, in the neighborhood, in the offing, in the vicinity, in the wind, in the wings, in view, incapacious, incommodious, incommunicado, incompatible, indisposed to talk, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, inseparable, insociable, instant, intense, intent, intersect, interstate highway, intimate, intonated, invest, involve, isthmian, isthmic, jam, jam-packed, jammed, join, jostle, joust, just about, key, kill, kraal, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, laconic, lane, lap, lapse, last lap, last round, last stage, latch, latent, lateral, lax, light, lightproof, lighttight, like, limited, lingual, liquid, list, local road, lock, lock out, lock up, looming, lot, low, lowering, lurking, main drag, main road, make, make up, massive, mathematical, maturation, maturity, meager, mean, meet, menacing, meticulous, mews, micrometrically precise, microscopic, mid, mingy, minuscule, minute, miserly, mix it up, monophthongal, mopey, mopish, morose, motorway, much at one, much the same, muggy, mum, musty, mute, muted, mysterious, narrow, narrow the gap, nasal, nasalized, near, near at hand, near the mark, nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nearing, nearish, nearly, nearly the same, nice, niggardly, nigh, nigh about, nighhand, nighish, nip, nongregarious, nonporous, not far, not far from, not quite, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, obstruct, obturate, occlude, occlusive, occult, oilproof, oiltight, on the horizon, only a step, open, oppressive, overhanging, overlook, oxytone, pack, packed, padlock, painstaking, palatal, palatalized, pale, paling, pally, palsy-walsy, parcel of land, park, parkway, parsimonious, particular, patch, pave, paved road, pen, penny-pinching, penurious, perfection, perorate, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pike, pinch, pinchfisted, pinching, pinpoint, pitch, pitched, pithy, place, plank road, plat, plot, plot of ground, plumb, pointed, populous, posttonic, practically, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, preparing, pretty near, primary highway, private, private road, privy, propinque, proximal, proximate, pruned, punctilious, punctual, quad, quadrangle, quarrel, quasi, quiet, rainproof, raintight, rassle, real estate, recondite, refined, relatable, religious, religiously exact, relinquishment, renunciation, reserved, resolve, restricted, reticent, retroflex, right-of-way, rigid, rigorous, ring road, riot, ripeness, road, roadbed, roadway, round, round about, rounded, rounding off, rounding out, route nationale, row, royal road, run a tilt, run together, same but different, save-all, scant, scanty, scientific, scientifically exact, scramble, scrap, scratch, scrupulous, scrutinizing, scuffle, seal, seal off, seal up, sealed, searching, secluded, secluse, secondary road, secret, secretive, section, secure, self-contained, self-sufficient, semivowel, sententious, sequestered, serried, set, settle, settle with, severe, shifty, short, short and sweet, shortened, shut, shut down, shut fast, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, shut up shop, shutdown, side-by-side, sidle up to, sign, silent, similar, skirmish, slam, slender, smokeproof, smoketight, smothered, snap, snug, socially incompatible, soft, solid, solidly, sonant, spar, sparing of words, speechless, speedway, square, squeeze, squeeze shut, stale, state highway, staunch, step up, sticky, stifle, stifled, stifling, stingy, stop, stop up, stopped, stopping, stormproof, stormtight, straighten out, strait, strangle, strangulate, street, stressed, strict, strive, strong, struggle, stuck, stuffy, substantial, subtle, succinct, suffocate, suffocating, sullen, sultry, summary, superhighway, suppressed, surcease, surd, surround, suspend, swarming, switch off, syllabic, synopsized, taciturn, taped, taper, teeming, tense, terminate, termination, terminus, terrace, terse, that will be, theater, thereabout, thereabouts, thick, thick as thieves, thick-growing, thickly, thickset, thorough, thoroughfare, threatening, throaty, through street, thrust and parry, thruway, tight, tight-fisted, tight-lipped, tightfisted, tilt, tiny, to come, to the point, toft, toll road, tonal, tongue-tied, tonic, top secret, topping off, tourney, township road, tract, truncated, turn off, turnpike, tussle, twangy, ulterior, unaccented, unbreatheable, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under wraps, underground, undeviating, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unerring, unfriendly, ungenerous, ungenial, unite, unknown, unloquacious, unrevealable, unrevealed, unrounded, unsociable, unsocial, unspoken, unstressed, untalkative, untellable, untold, unutterable, unvented, unventilated, unwhisperable, upcoming, velar, vicinal, viscid, viscose, viscous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, wage war, waiting, war, warm, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, weak, wedged, well-nigh, wide, wind up, windless, windproof, windtight, windup, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within reach, word-bound, wordless, work out, wrap, wrapped in clouds, wrestle, wynd, yard, zip up, zipper

Etymology

 * 1) From  closen:, from clos:, from  clos:, from  clausus:, from claudere:, from, related to  clavis:, clavus:, claustrum:, claustra:. Cognate with  κλείς:,  schließen:,  sluiten:. Replaced  lucan: and clysan:.
 * 2) From  clos:, from  clausum:, participle of claudere:.

Verb

 * Arabic: أغلق
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: зачыняць, зачыніць
 * Bulgarian: затварям
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  ,  關閉,  关闭
 * Crimean Tatar: qapatmaq, (northern dialect: capmaq)
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: xe
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:


 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 閉める (しめる, shimeru), 閉じる (とじる, tojiru)
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: మూయు (mooyu)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: зачиняти,


 * Arabic: أغلق
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: зачыняць, зачыніць
 * Bulgarian: затварям
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  ,  關閉,  关闭
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: tu
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: pechar
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido: Klozar
 * Indonesian: tutup
 * Interlingua: clauder
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:,  , 閉じる
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: داخستن
 * Maltese: agħlaq
 * Norwegian: lukke, stenge
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: serrar
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dùin
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మూయు (మూయు)
 * Thai: งับ, หุบ
 * Turkish:, örtmek
 * Ukrainian: зачиняти,
 * Vietnamese: đóng


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: приключвам, закривам
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * Galician: rematar, terminar, pór fin
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: סגר (sagár)
 * Indonesian: tutup
 * Interlingua: clauder, concluder, terminar
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:,  , 閉じる


 * Maltese: temm
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: finir
 * Russian:,  ;  ,  ; завершать , завершить
 * Spanish:, ,  ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ముగించు (mugiMchu)
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian:, сократить


 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: (kauppa)
 * French:


 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * Bulgarian:, завършек,  закриване
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: کۆتایی


 * Russian:, завершение, окончание
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: задънена улица
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Russian:

Adjective

 * Arabic: (qarīb)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 近 (jìn)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: nabije, dichtbij
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ახლო (akhlo)
 * German:
 * Hebrew: קרוב (qarov), קרובה (qrova)
 * Ido: proxim
 * Indonesian:


 * Interlingua: proxime, vicin
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 近い (ちかい, chikai)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latvian: tuvs
 * Lithuanian: artimas
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: yakın

Anagrams

 * coles
 * socle

Verb form

 * 1) first- and third-person singular subjunctive present of clore
 * 2) feminine of clos

Anagrams

 * socle