English Dictionary

close

/kləʊs/

adj

(now rare) Closed, shut. / Narrow; confined. / At a little distance; near. / Intimate; well-loved. / (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.

The close door prevented anyone from entering the room.

意味（1）

(now rare) Closed, shut.

There is nothinge so close, that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.

意味（2）

Narrow; confined.

a close alley; close quarters

意味（3）

At a little distance; near.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

意味（4）

Intimate; well-loved.

意味（5）

(law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.

意味（6）

Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.

If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, … and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.

意味（7）

(Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.

意味（8）

(linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.

意味（9）

Strictly confined; carefully guarded.

a close prisoner

意味（10）

(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.

He yet kept himself close because of Saul.

意味（11）

Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.

a close contest

意味（12）

Short.

to cut grass or hair close

意味（13）

(archaic) Dense; solid; compact.

The golden globe being put into a press, … the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.

意味（14）

(archaic) Concise; to the point.

close reasoning

意味（15）

(dated) Difficult to obtain.

Some of these parties have not paid their last payment, because money was close last fall.

意味（16）

(dated) Parsimonious; stingy.

Yet were these Florentines as self-retired / In hungry pride and gainful cowardice, / As two close Hebrews in that land inspired, / Paled in and vineyarded from beggar-spies; …

意味（17）

Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.

a close translation; a close copy

意味（18）

Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.

The patient was kept under close observation.

意味（19）

Marked, evident.