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# closer

«closer» in Mova's school dictionary: **Nearer in distance: «Come closer»** — 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

adjective (comparative of close: close, closer, closest); adverb (closer); noun (a closer — someone or something that closes, rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Nearer in distance: «Come closer». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#m1)

2) Nearer in time: «Closer to bedtime». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#m2)

3) More friendly or connected: «They became closer friends». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#m3)

4) More careful or exact: «Take a closer look». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#m4)

5) Nearer to a number or answer: «Your guess was closer». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: estimating — whose answer is closer to the real number; rounding to the closer ten; which number is closer to 50. In science: looking closer with a magnifying glass. In safety: don't go closer to a wild animal, a cliff edge or a fire; stand back. Phrases: come closer, closer to, closer look, get closer, closer and closer, closer than.

### examples

- Come closer so you can hear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#x1)
- Take a closer look with the magnifying glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#x2)
- Is 47 closer to 40 or to 50? It's closer to 50. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#x3)
- Don't go any closer to the edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#x4)
- My guess of 20 was closer than yours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#x5)
- The storm is getting closer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#x6)
- My cousin and I became closer after the holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#x7)
- The stars look closer than they are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#x8)
- The others came closer to him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closer/#x9)

### note

Here «close» is said with a soft s: «klohss» (near), so «closer» is «KLOH-ser». The verb «close» (shut) has a z sound. In maths: «closer to 50» means the difference from 50 is smaller (50 − 47 = 3, but 47 − 40 = 7).

### In the corpora

- [Digital zoom just enlarges pixels and loses detail; getting closer or using a real zoom lens gives sharper pictures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/11/)
- [Photographing children and animals from their eye level makes the picture feel closer and more natural.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/13/)
- [Crocodiles survived the asteroid too, and they are closer relatives of birds than of lizards.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/16/)
- [The Badger is closer to life: real badgers dig huge old homes called setts and stay underground through cold spells.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/3/)
- [Repeating «closer… closer… closer» slows time down and builds suspense as the danger comes nearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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