In a close manner. / (obsolete) secretly; privately

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of close

plural of close

(idiomatic) To enclose around; to tighten or shrink; to collapse. / (idiomatic) To catch up with in a chase; to near the end of a pursuit. / (idiomatic) To near a goal or completion.

The state of being close (all senses) / The state of being friends / The state of being mean or stingy / The state of being secretive / (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph

(of quantifiers of nouns) Approximately / (informal) Nearly; almost

Near.

plural of closing

(transitive) To enclose, lock up inside something. / (transitive) To come nearer to someone being pursued.

With a noun-phrase complement. / With no explicit complement. / With the preposition to introducing a noun-phrase complement. / Preceding and modifying a noun.