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  1. adjective Being near in space or time. See Usage Note at redundancy.
  2. adjective Being near in relationship: close relatives.
  3. adjective Bound by mutual interests, loyalties, or affections; intimate: close friends.
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  • Still, having Carson this close was a distraction, to say the least, and she could tell their physical closeness had a strong effect on him, too. —  CallMeWicked
  • You guys should've won this district by a landslide, the fact that it's this close is a loss for the Republicans in my book. by: you @ soon —  Swing State Project
  • The name "Ham" bears close resemblance to the Hebrew words for "black" and —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • A close relative is the English word "emprise" ( "an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise"), which, like "impresario," traces back to the Latin verb —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • The high and low are represented by the top and bottom of the vertical bar and the close is the short horizontal line crossing the vertical bar. —  Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
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  1. Middle English clos, closed, from Old French, from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere, to close. V., from Middle English closen, from Old French clore, clos-, from Latin claudere.

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  1. from Middle English closen, a modification (through the influence of adjective clos, close) of earlier clusen (so also in comp. bi-clusen, often bi-closen), also later sometimes clesen, close, shut in, from Anglo-Saxon *cly¯san (in verbal noun cly¯sung, a closing, an inclosure, and comp. becly¯san, close in, shut up), from Latin clusus, clausus, past participle of cludere, claudere (always -clusus, -cludere in comp.), shut, close, shut in (later Old French and F. clore (past participle clos, later Middle English adjective clos, close: see close, a.) = Provencal claure, clure = Spanish Portuguese -cluir (in comp.) = Italian chiudere, close, etc.), orig. prob. *sclaudere = OFries. slūta = Old Saxon *slūta (cf. slutil, a key) = Low German sluten = Dutch sluiten (later slot, a lock, later English slot, q. v.) = Old High German sliozan, Middle High German sliezen, German schliessen = Danish slutte = Swedish sluta, shut; Greek κλείειν (√ *σκλα#567?) appears to be a shorter form of the same root. Hence ult. (from Latin claudere) English close, close, closet, clause, cloister, conclude, exclude, include, occlude, preclude, seclude, etc., conclusion, etc., sluice, clavis, clef, etc.
  2. from close, v.
  3. from Middle English clos, close, cloos, from Old French clos, past participle of clore, shut, close: see close, v.
  4. from Middle English clos, close, cloos, adverb, from clos, close, adjective: see close, a.
  5. from Middle English clos, close, cloos, an inclosed place, yard, closet, pass, bounds, etc., from Old French clos, an inclosed place, etc., properly past participle of clore: see close, a., and close, v. Cf. closet.
 

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