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Is close a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.Examples: "Close the door behind you when you leave."; "Many flowers close at night."; "Jim closed his eyes and reclined back in his chair."Synonyms: close up, shutAntonyms: openambitransitivephysical
2. (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.Examples: "They closed the road for the festival."; "Ice has closed the channel to shipping."Synonyms: close off, close up, shut, shut offAntonyms: openphysicaltransitive
3. (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.Examples: "As we penetrated further, the forest closed around us."intransitivephysical
4. (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.Examples: "He has closed his mind to new ideas."figurativelyintransitivephysicaltransitive
5. (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.intransitivephysicaltransitive
6. (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.intransitivephysicaltransitive
noun (English)
1. (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.Examples: "Regardless of the situation, the minute you feel it's time for the close, try it."Synonyms: closer
2. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.Examples: "At every close she made, the attending throng / Replied, and bore the burden of the song."
3. (music) A double bar marking the end.
4. (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
adj (English)
1. Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.Examples: "Phew! That was close!"
2. Compressed, restricted, constrained, etc.Examples: "a close alley; close quarters; close confines"; "[...] 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 [...]"
3. Compressed, restricted, constrained, etc.
4. Compressed, restricted, constrained, etc.Synonyms: muggyIrelandUK
5. Compressed, restricted, constrained, etc.Examples: "The golden globe being put into a press, [...] the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal."Synonyms: compactarchaic
6. (now rare) Closed, shut.Examples: "There is nothinge so close, that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen."; "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..."; "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."archaic
noun (English)
1. (now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field, especially a field enclosed around a (usually religious) building.Yorkshirearchaic
2. (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.Synonyms: cul-de-sacBritish
3. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.Synonyms: alleyScotland
4. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.Examples: "The woman nodded at a nearby flight of steps. 'This is my close. We can talk in here. Come on.'."Scotland
5. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
Definition source: Wiktionary