close

1. close (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.: At little distance; near in space or time.

Example: Is your house close?

2. close (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.: Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.

Example: No, but you were close.

3. close (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.: Almost resulting in disaster.

Example: Phew! That was close!

4. close (adv) — sense 4

Definition: In a close manner (limited contexts; more often closely).: So as to leave or create little distance or space between objects.

Example: The car behind was following too close and could not brake in time.

5. close (adv) — sense 5

Definition: In a close manner (limited contexts; more often closely).: Carefully, in detail.

Example: Look close at the pictures.

6. close (adv) — sense 6

Definition: In a close manner (limited contexts; more often closely).: In combination (sometimes potentially ambiguous between adverb and adjective).

Example: close-packed, close-knit, close-fitting

7. close (noun) — sense 7

Definition: A street that ends in a dead end.

8. close (noun) — sense 8

Definition: Private fenced land, such as a paddock, orchard or yard, that, along with the common pasture land and woodland, constituted the inarable component of the open-field system of the medieval manor in England.

Example: To be SOLD, At Mr. PACEY's, the WHITE LION in Nottingham, on Thursday the 28th Day of May, between the Hours of three and six in the Afternoon; THE INHERITANCE in Fee Simple of the MANOR of ALSWORTH, otherwise AWSWORTH, in the County of Nottingham, and also several Messuages and Tenements, with the Closes and Parcels of Land, Meadow, and Pasture Ground thereto belonging,...

9. close (noun) — sense 9

Definition: An enclosed field, especially a field enclosed around a (usually religious) building (e.g. a cathedral close).