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# close

«close» in Mova's school dictionary: **to shut, like a door, a book or your eyes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (close, closes, closed, closing); adjective (close, closer, closest); adverb (close)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To close is to shut, like a door, a book or your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#m1)

2) To close is also to stop being open for people, like a shop closing at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#m2)

3) Close (said «klohs») means near. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#m3)

4) Close friends are very good friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#m4)

5) A close game is one where the scores are nearly the same. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a closing time (an end time), or nearness, or rounding to the nearest number («close to 50» means about 50); estimation; everyday life: shops close, close the door, close your eyes; science: close up with a magnifying glass; stories: a close friend, a close escape; phrases: «close to», «close by», «up close», «close call»

### examples

- The store closes at 9:00. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x1)
- Which number is closest to 50? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x2)
- The park is close to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x3)
- The library is closed on Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x4)
- Please close the window, it is cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x5)
- Close your eyes and count to ten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x6)
- Stand close to me in the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x7)
- It was a close game: 3 to 2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x8)
- She is my close friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x9)
- Close behind him some one followed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/#x10)

### note

«closes at» gives an end time; «close to» means near or about. Trap: the same word has two meanings and two sounds: «kloz» (shut) and «klohs» (near). Time open = closing time − opening time.

### In the corpora

- [Living close to other people means sharing streets, walls, parking spaces and rules.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/0/)
- [Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/0/)
- [A closed kitchen door and low voices mean grown-ups are discussing something they are not ready to share.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/9/)
- [Tense music, close-ups and slow motion make ordinary mistakes feel dangerous; turn the sound down and the drama shrinks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/13/)
- [«Sources close to» someone are people a newspaper does not name, so their claims cannot be checked by the reader.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «close» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/close/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.