closenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: klōʹsən, IPA: /ˈkləʊsən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkloʊsən/

動詞

closen (third-person singular simple present closens, present participle closening, simple past and past participle closened)

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become close.
   • 2004, James Chapman, Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1895 to the Present:

     Warner Bros. was unusual in not closening its ties with Wall Street during the early 1930s.

   • 2009, David Denis Aldridge, Admiral Sir John Norris and the British Naval Expeditions to the Baltic Sea 1715-1727:

     As for George I, the failure of his effort to closen with the Czar through Norris's intermediation brought the king-elector, at least in Genzel's view, to think in terms of ‘ein grossen europäischen Abwehrfront’, which would have owed more than a little to Bernstorff's own ‘Project’.

   • 2010, Peter James, Twilight:

     Since her mother had moved their relationship with each other had closened, as if they had become the side of the family that was flawed and her father and Dara were Mr and Miss Perfect.

アナグラム

• Clones, Colens, clones