closest

«closest» in Mova's school dictionary: the nearest of all — 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

adjective (close, closer, closest); adverb (closest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Closest means the nearest of all. tree →

2) Closest can mean the nearest in amount, the number with the smallest difference. tree →

3) A closest friend is the friend you are nearest to. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: the smallest distance, or the number nearest to another (rounding, estimating); geography: the closest town or star; everyday life: the closest shop, the closest exit; safety: know where the closest fire exit is

examples

• Which town is closest to the lake? tree →
• Round 47 to the closest ten. tree →
• Which number is closest to 100: 96 or 105? tree →
• The closest store is 2 miles away. tree →
• The Sun is the star closest to Earth. tree →
• Walk to the closest exit. tree →
• Her guess was the closest to the real number. tree →
• Tom is my closest friend. tree →
• I am quite sure we shall become the closest of friends." tree →

note

Compare the differences and choose the smallest. Trap: closest is about difference, not about which number is bigger (100 − 96 = 4 and 105 − 100 = 5, so 96 is closer). The superlative of «close» (near), said «klohs-est».

In the corpora

• Crocodile ancestors lived alongside dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, and crocodiles are the closest living relatives of birds.
• The closest living relatives of hippos are whales and dolphins.
• A hippo's closest living relatives are whales and dolphins, not pigs.
• Mammoths were close relatives of today's elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, as scientists found by comparing DNA.
• The closest living land relatives of whales are hippos, and a whale's flipper has the same bones as your arm and hand.

Trees and pragmatics

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