closeとは意味・読み方・使い方

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Conjugation

Conjugation of *close*
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) close

1st-person singular	close	closed
2nd-person singular	close, closest	closed, closedst
3rd-person singular	closes, closeth	closed
plural	close	closed

subjunctive	close	closed

imperative	close	—

participles	closing	closed

Archaic or obsolete.

下位語

autoclose

派生語

Phrasal verbs and conversions formed from them

名詞

close (plural closes)

An end or conclusion.

We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close.
- 1878, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Francis Atterbury”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition‎:
  
  His long and troubled life was drawing to a close.
The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
  
  The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.
  
  The spelling has been modernized.
(sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.

Synonym: closer
- 1983, Charles B. Roth, Roy Alexander, Secrets of Closing Sales, page 110:
  
  Regardless of the situation, the minute you feel it's time for the close, try it.
A grapple in wrestling.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  
  The intestine shocke, And furious cloze of ciuill Butchery.
(music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  
  At every close she made, the attending throng / Replied, and bore the burden of the song.
(music) A double bar marking the end.
(aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.

同意語

(end): end, finale

反意語

(antonym (s) of “end”): beginning, start

派生語

語源 2

Borrowed from French clos, from Latin clausum, participle of claudō.

発音

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: klōs, IPA: /kləʊs/
(General American) IPA: /kloʊs/
韻: -əʊs

形容詞

close (comparative closer, superlative closest)

Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.
1. At little distance; near in space or time.
  
  Is your house close?
  
  Christmas is getting close.
  - 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
    
    […] 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.
2. Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
  
  No, but you were close.
  
  We were so close to winning!
  
  She wasn't quite in tears but she was close.
  - 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
    
    Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
3. (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
  
  Phew! That was close!
4. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
  
  Their ages are quite close.
  
  His face is a close fit with the artist 's impression.
  
  It was a close contest.
5. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
  
  a close translation; a close copy
6. Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
  
  He is a close friend.
  
  My brother and I were close when we were younger, but not so much now.
  
  For Christmas we just had a few close relatives round.
  
  a close colleague; a close ally
7. Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
  
  We have a close affiliation with the college.
  
  I keep in close contact with my former colleagues.
Compressed, restricted, constrained, etc.
1. (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
  
  a close alley; close quarters; close confines
  - 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 41, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
    
    [...] he took to wondering what possible temptation could have induced a dingy-looking fly that was crawling over his pantaloons, to come into a close prison, when he had the choice of so many airy situations [...]
2. Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
  
  For this job it's best to use wood with a close grain.
  
  These trousers are a close fit.
3. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
  
  He was captured and kept a close prisoner.
4. Tightly restricted in availability.
  
  The pregnancy was a close secret.
  
  His lawyers have so far kept this information close.
5. (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
6. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
  - 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
    
    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.
  - 1907, Algernon Blackwood, The Dance of Death [...]the artificial light and close air of his high office stool [...]
  - 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter X, in Indiscretions of Archie:
    
    He sighed drowsily. The atmosphere of the auction room was close; you weren't allowed to smoke; and altogether he was beginning to regret that he had come.
7. (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
8. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
  - 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
    
    The golden globe being put into a press, [...] the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.
Rigorous, careful, etc.
1. Attentive; undeviating; strict.
  
  The patient was kept under close observation.
  
  Keep a close eye on him.
  - a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, page 90:
    
    I must acknowledge that hitherto I have discover’d no other way to keep our Thoughts cloſe to their Buſineſs, but the endeavouring as much as we can, and by frequent Attention and Application, getting the habit of Attention and Application.
2. Carefully done, detailed.
  
  This issue merits close examination.
  
  Unfortunately, on close reading of the Ts and Cs, it appears that your insurance does not cover this.
3. Accurate; precise. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Short.

to cut grass or hair close
(now rare) Closed, shut.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew viij:
  
  There is nothinge so close, that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.
- 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist), The History of Chemistry, volume 1, pages 30–31:
  
  As the alchymists were assiduous workmen—as they mixed all the metals, salts, &c... and subjected such mixtures to the action of heat in close vessels, their labours were occasionally repaid by the discovery of new substances...
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
  
  I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.
(linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
(heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:
  
  Crest, a cockatrice, wings close, vert, combed and wattled gu.
- 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 215:
  
  Sable, an eagle close or - ROPER, Derby. / Sable, a chevron ermine between three eagles close argent - GAMES, Leicester, granted 1614. / Sable a chevron between three eagles close argent - JERVOISE.
- 1902, Lincoln 's Inn (London, England), The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln 's Inn, page 458:
  
  Arms : Azure, a chevron ermine between three cross - crosslets fitchy argent. Crest : An eagle close argent, ducally gorged.
(dated) Difficult to obtain.

Money is close.
- 1886, “Leases of Lands in the Indian Territory”, in United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 2362, page 184:
  
  Some of these parties have not paid their last payment, because money was close last fall.
- 1903, Gunton's Magazine of American Economics and Political Science, page 249:
  
  We are told out West that the reason money is so close now is because so large an amount has been invested in real estate. I cannot understand why that would make any difference if that money has been sent from one section of the country into another for the purpose of buying real estate. Why should it make any difference as to money being close? We are told in the East large amounts have been invested in the large manufacturing plants, such as the steel plants, etc. but if the money has been invested there it has simply changed hands, and why should that make any difference?
- 1965, Country Life - Volume 137, page 326:
  
  But there is reason underlying this confusion: time as well as money is close these days and a small wardrobe of hats can be very boring.
(dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
- 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XVII, page 57:
  
  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; [...]
- 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume I:
  
  [...] he was a crusty old fellow, as close as a vice.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
  
  Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless bin of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.
(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 12:1:
  
  He yet kept himself close because of Saul.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 57:
  
  her close intent
(archaic) Concise; to the point.

close reasoning
- 1690, John Dryden, Translations (Preface)
  
  Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.
Marked, evident.(Can we add an example for this sense?)

同意語

(at little distance): close by, near, nearby; see also Thesaurus:near
(intimate): intimate
(hot, humid): muggy, oppressive; see also Thesaurus:muggy
(articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate): high
(dense, solid, compact): see also Thesaurus:compact

反意語

(antonym (s) of “at little distance”): distant, far, faraway, far off, remote; see also Thesaurus:distant
(antonym (s) of “intimate”): aloof, cool, distant
(antonym (s) of “articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate”): open

下位語

this close, thisclose
ultra-close

派生語

close as wax
close at hand
close-bodied
close borough
close, but no cigar
close call
close captioning
close combat
close-coupled
close-cropped
close encounter
close enough
close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades
close fertilization
close-fights
close-fisted
close-fitting
closehanded
close-hauled
close helm
close helmet
closeish
close-knit
closely
close-mid
close-minded
closeness
close one
close only counts in horseshoes
close only counts in horseshoes and darts
close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
close on the heels of
close order
close-packed
close-packing
close protection
close-quarter
close quarter
close quarters
close range
close-range
close reach
close reading
close-reefed
closereefed
close-run
close-serried
close-set
close shave
closestool
close thing
close-tiled
close to
close-toed
close together
close to home
close-tongued
close to one's heart
close to one's vest
close to someone's heart
close to the bone
close to the metal
close to the vest
close to the wind
close-up
close-winded
close with a buck
couple-close
cut it close
fly too close to the sun
hit too close to home
in close neighbourhood
keep a close watch
keep one's cards close to one's chest
nonclose
play it close to the hip
sail close to the wind
soft-close
subclose
this close
too close for comfort
too close to call
too close to the sun
ultraclose
up close

副詞

close (comparative closer, superlative closest)

In a close manner (limited contexts; more often closely).
1. So as to leave or create little distance or space between objects.
  
  The car behind was following too close and could not brake in time.
  
  Please stay close together.
2. Carefully, in detail.
  
  Look close at the pictures.
3. In combination (sometimes potentially ambiguous between adverb and adjective).
  
  close-packed, close-knit, close-fitting

名詞

close (plural closes)

(now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field, especially a field enclosed around a (usually religious) building.
(chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279:
  
  The woman nodded at a nearby flight of steps. 'This is my close. We can talk in here. Come on.'.
A cathedral close.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  
  closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.
(law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed

同意語

(street): cul-de-sac
(narrow alley): See Thesaurus:alley

派生語

up a close

派生した語

→ Irish: clós
→ Welsh: clos

参照

^ John Bouvier (1839), “CLOSE”, in A Law Dictionary, […], volumes I (A–K), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, […], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, […], →OCLC.

“close”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

Coles, coles, socle

中期英語

名詞

close

plural of cloth

[1] John Bouvier (1839), “CLOSE”, in A Law Dictionary, […], volumes I (A–K), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, […], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, […], →OCLC.

clóse dówn	clóse ín
clóse óut 《主に米国で用いられる》	clóse úp
clóse with…

clóse on…	clóse to…
clóse to hóme	còme clóse to dóing
cút it clóse	gò clóse
préss a person clóse	rún…clóse


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