The temporal end; the concluding time:
— They were playing better at the close of the season.

synonyms: conclusion, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point.

Roget 67: end, close, termination; desinence^†, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail etc. (rear) 235; verge etc. (edge) 231; tag, peroration; bonne bouche [Fr.]; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.    consummation, denouement; finish etc. (completion) 729; fate; doom, doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry^†, extinction, extermination; death etc. 360; end of all things; finality; eschatology.    break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out-blow; sockdolager [U.S.].    ... show more

Roget 181: region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale etc. (limit) 233; compartment, department; clearing.    [political divisions: see] (property) etc. 780 (Government) etc. 737.1 arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court; enclave, reserve, preserve; street etc. (abode) 189.    clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude.    biosphere; lithosphere.    ... show more

Roget 729: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close etc. (end) 67; terminus etc. (arrival) 292; winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link etc. 53; superstructure, ne plus ultra [Lat.], work done, fait accompli [Fr.].    elaboration; finality; completeness etc. 52.    ... show more

The last section of a communication.

synonyms: closing, conclusion, end, ending.

Dutch: slot
Polish: zakończenie, finisz, finał

The concluding part of any performance.

synonyms: closing curtain, finale, finis.

Dutch: besluit, finale, slot, slotstuk

Move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut:
— Close the door.

synonym: shut.

Dutch: dichtdoen, dichten, dichtmaken, sluiten, toedoen

Become closed:
— The windows closed with a loud bang.

synonym: shut.

Dutch: dichtgaan, sluiten

Cease to operate or cause to cease operating:
— The owners decided to move and to close the factory.
— My business closes every night at 8 P.M..
— Close up the shop.

synonyms: close down, close up, fold, shut down.

Dutch: uitzetten, afsluiten, lamleggen, platgooien, platleggen, platliggen, stilleggen, stilliggen

Finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.).

Come to a close:
— The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin.

synonym: conclude.

Roget 67: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die etc. 360; come-, draw-to-a-close etc. n.; have run its course; run out, pass away.    bring to an end etc. n.; put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve etc. (complete) 729; stop etc. (make to cease) 142; shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.    ... show more

Roget 769: contract, covenant, agree for; engage etc. (promise) 768.    treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms; bargain etc. (barter) 794.    make a bargain, strike a bargain; come to terms, come to an understanding; compromise etc. 774; set at rest; close, close with; conclude, complete, settle; confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite; endorse, indorse; put the seal to; sign, seal etc. (attest) 467; indent.    take one at one's word, bargain by inch of candle.    ... show more

Complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement.

Be priced or listed when trading stops.

Engage at close quarters.

Cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop.

Change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact.

Come together, as if in an embrace:
— Her arms closed around her long lost relative.

synonym: come together.

Draw near.

Bring together all the elements or parts of.

Bar access to.

Fill or stop up:
— Can you close the cracks with caulking?.

synonym: fill up.

Roget 261: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct etc. (hinder) 706; bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door.    ... show more

Unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of:
— Close the circuit.
— Close a wound.
— Close a book.
— Close up an umbrella.

synonym: close up.

Finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead.

At or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other.

Roget 572: concise, brief, short, terse, close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious etc. (compendium) 596; succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.    ... show more

Close in relevance or relationship.

Polish: bliski

Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances:
— She was close to tears.
— Had a close call.

synonyms: near, nigh.

Roget 17: similar; resembling etc. v.; like, alike; twin.    analogous, analogical; parallel, of a piece [Fr.]; such as, so; homoiousian^†.    connatural^†, congener, allied to; akin to etc. (consanguineous) 11.    approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing.    exact etc. (true) 494; lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau [Fr.]; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare; instar omnium [Lat.], cast in the same mold, ridiculously like.    ... show more

Roget 197: near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring; bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.    ... show more

Roget 819: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping etc. v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.    ... show more

Polish: niedaleki, bliski, nieodległy

Rigorously attentive; strict and thorough.

Marked by fidelity to an original:
— A close translation.

synonym: faithful.

Roget 21: faithful; lifelike etc. (similar) 17; close, conscientious.    unoriginal, imitative, derivative.   

Roget 494: real, actual etc. (existing) 1; veritable, true; right, correct; certain etc. 474; substantially true, categorically true, definitively true &c.; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious etc. 543; unreconfuted^†, unconfuted^†; unideal^†, unimagined; realistic.    exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so; strict, severe; close etc. (similar) 17; literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous etc. (conscientious) 939; religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut.    verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven (demonstrated) 478.    rigorously true, unquestionably true.    true by definition.    genuine, authentic, legitimate; orthodox etc. 983.1; official, ex officio.    pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka^†.    well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid; undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering.    ... show more

of a contest or contestants Evenly matched:
— A close contest.
— A close election.

synonym: tight.

Roget 43: joined etc. v.; joint; conjoint, conjunct; corporate, compact; hand in hand.    firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved^†; inseparable, indissoluble, insecable^†, severable.    ... show more

Crowded:
— Close quarters.

synonym: confining.

Lacking fresh air:
— The dreadfully close atmosphere.

synonyms: airless, stuffy, unaired.

Roget 321: dense, solid; solidified etc. v.; caseous; pukka^†; coherent, cohesive etc. 46; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish^†; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous^†; incompressible; constipated; concrete etc. (hard) 323; knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous^†, stuffy.    undissolved, unmelted^†, unliquefied^†, unthawed^†.    indivisible, indiscerptible^†, infrangible^†, indissolvable^†, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.    ... show more

Roget 382: hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.    sunny, torrid, tropical, estival^†, canicular^†, steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking etc. v.; baking etc. 384.    red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning etc. v.. hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg.    fiery; incandescent, incalescent^†; candent^†, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling etc. v.; in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished^†; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific^†; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.    volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal^†, isothermic^†, isotheral^†.    ... show more

Of textiles:
— A close weave.

synonym: tight.

Strictly confined or guarded.

Confined to specific persons.

Fitting closely but comfortably:
— A close fit.

synonyms: close-fitting, snug.

Used of hair or haircuts.

Giving or spending with reluctance:
— Very close (or near) with his money.

synonyms: cheeseparing, near, penny-pinching, skinny.

Roget 203: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like etc. (filament) 205; finespun^†, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious^†; contracted etc. 195; unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. 194^†; slender as a thread.    [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent^†; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky [U.S.]; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.    attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid^†, marcid^†, barebone, rawboned.    monomolecular.    ... show more

Inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information:
— Although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it.

synonyms: closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped.

Roget 528: concealed etc. v.; hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical^†; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous.    behind a screen etc. 530; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds^†; invisible etc. 447; buried, underground, perdu [Fr.]; secluded etc. 893.    undisclosed etc. 529, untold etc. 527; covert etc. (latent) 526; untraceable; mysterious etc. (unintelligible) 519.    irrevealable^†, inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of; unmentionable.    obreptitious^†, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking etc. v.; surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly etc. (cunning) 702; secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn etc. 585.    ... show more

Polish: skryty

Near in time or place or relationship:
— The bullet didn't come close.
— Don't get too close to the fire.

synonyms: near, nigh.

In an attentive manner:
— He remained close on his guard.

synonyms: closely, tight.