close

«close» in Mova's school dictionary: to shut, like a door, a book or your eyes — 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

verb (close, closes, closed, closing); adjective (close, closer, closest); adverb (close)

meaning for a pupil

1) To close is to shut, like a door, a book or your eyes. tree →

2) To close is also to stop being open for people, like a shop closing at night. tree →

3) Close (said «klohs») means near. tree →

4) Close friends are very good friends. tree →

5) A close game is one where the scores are nearly the same. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: a closing time (an end time), or nearness, or rounding to the nearest number («close to 50» means about 50); estimation; everyday life: shops close, close the door, close your eyes; science: close up with a magnifying glass; stories: a close friend, a close escape; phrases: «close to», «close by», «up close», «close call»

examples

• The store closes at 9:00. tree →
• Which number is closest to 50? tree →
• The park is close to school. tree →
• The library is closed on Sunday. tree →
• Please close the window, it is cold. tree →
• Close your eyes and count to ten. tree →
• Stand close to me in the crowd. tree →
• It was a close game: 3 to 2. tree →
• She is my close friend. tree →
• Close behind him some one followed. tree →

note

«closes at» gives an end time; «close to» means near or about. Trap: the same word has two meanings and two sounds: «kloz» (shut) and «klohs» (near). Time open = closing time − opening time.

In the corpora

• Living close to other people means sharing streets, walls, parking spaces and rules.
• Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand.
• A closed kitchen door and low voices mean grown-ups are discussing something they are not ready to share.
• Tense music, close-ups and slow motion make ordinary mistakes feel dangerous; turn the sound down and the drama shrinks.
• «Sources close to» someone are people a newspaper does not name, so their claims cannot be checked by the reader.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «close» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.