Sekirov Dictionary

close up

/kləʊzˈʌp/

verb 7
/ˈkləʊsʌp/ adjective 1
/ˈkləʊsʌp/ noun 1
forms 4

verb7

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To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.
- Some flowers close up at night to stay protected from the cold.
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To shut a building or a business for a period of time.
- We finally managed to close up the shop for the night at about 10 o'clock.
- The car factory has closed up for the August holidays.
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Of a cut or other wound: To heal.
- With stitches, the cut should close up in a week to ten days.
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To move nearer together so that a gap is removed.
- The crowd closed up and I couldn't get through to the train.
To become less 'open' or communicative; to shrink back.
(Australia, slang) To stop talking.
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To enclose, confine.
- In Sanʿa the Jews have been separated from the Mohammedan population for the last three hundred years, and closed up in a Ghetto apart from the main town. — 1929

close-up

/ˈkləʊsʌp/

adjective1

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In near proximity.
- A worldwide TV audience had a close-up view of the astronauts when they splashed down and as they emerged from the bobbing spaceship they call Gumdrop. — 1969

noun1

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A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame.
- All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. — 1950

forms

closed up · closing up · closes up · close-ups

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