{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "kloʊs", "kloʊz" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/close.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/close.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/close.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/close.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English closen (“to close, enclose”), partly continuing (in altered form) earlier Middle English clusen (“to close”) (from Old English clȳsan (“to close, shut”); compare beclose, foreclose, etc.), and partly derived from Middle English clos (“close, shut up, confined, secret”, adjective), from Old French clos (“close, confined”, adjective), from Latin clausus (“shut up”, past participle), from claudere (“to bar, block, close, enclose, bring an end to, confine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klāw- (“key, hook, nail”), related to Latin clāvis (“key, deadbolt, bar”), clāvus (“nail, peg”), claustrum (“bar, bolt, barrier”), claustra (“dam, wall, barricade, stronghold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “bar, bolt, key”), German schließen (“to close, conclude, lock”), Dutch sluiten (“to close, conclude, lock”). Partially replaced Old English lūcan (“to close, lock, enclose”), (whence English lock). Doublet of clause.", "Borrowed from French clos, from Latin clausum, participle of claudō." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(physical) To remove a gap.", "submean": [ "To obstruct (an opening).", "To move so that an opening is closed.\nClose the door behind you when you leave.\nJim was listening to headphones with his eyes closed.\n", "To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.\nThe runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader.\nto close the ranks of an army", "(transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.", "(transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.", "To grapple; to engage in close combat.\n" ] }, { "mean": "To finish, to terminate.", "submean": [ "To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.\nclose the session;   to close a bargain;   to close a course of instruction\n", "To come to an end.\nThe debate closed at six o'clock.", "(marketing) To make a sale.", "(baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.\nHe has closed the last two games for his team.", "(figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.", "(transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position)." ] }, { "mean": "To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine." }, { "mean": "(surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.\nWhoever closed last night forgot to turn off the closet light." }, { "mean": "(Philippines) To turn off; to switch off.\nPlease close the lights. ― Please turn off the lights.\nClose the fan please. ― Please switch off the fan.\nClose the TV now. ― Turn off the TV now." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "An end or conclusion.\nWe owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close." }, { "mean": "The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction." }, { "mean": "(sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.\nSynonym: closer" }, { "mean": "A grapple in wrestling." }, { "mean": "(music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence." }, { "mean": "(music) A double bar marking the end." }, { "mean": "(aviation, travel) The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(now rare) Closed, shut." }, { "mean": "Narrow; confined.\na close alley; close quarters" }, { "mean": "At a little distance; near.\n\nIs your house close?" }, { "mean": "Intimate; well-loved.\nHe is a close friend.", "submean": [ "(law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held." ] }, { "mean": "Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude." }, { "mean": "(Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind." }, { "mean": "(linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate." }, { "mean": "Strictly confined; carefully guarded.\na close prisoner" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden." }, { "mean": "Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.\na close contest" }, { "mean": "Short.\nto cut grass or hair close" }, { "mean": "(archaic) Dense; solid; compact." }, { "mean": "(archaic) Concise; to the point.\nclose reasoning" }, { "mean": "(dated) Difficult to obtain.\n\nMoney is close." }, { "mean": "(dated) Parsimonious; stingy." }, { "mean": "Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.\na close translation; a close copy" }, { "mean": "Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.\nThe patient was kept under close observation." }, { "mean": "Marked, evident.(Can we add an example for this sense?)" }, { "mean": "Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near\nNo, but you were close.\nWe were so close to winning!" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field." }, { "mean": "(chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end." }, { "mean": "(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor." }, { "mean": "(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement." }, { "mean": "A cathedral close." }, { "mean": "(law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(obstruct (an opening)): close off, close up, cover, shut, shut off", "(move (a door)): shut", "(put an end to): end, finish, terminate, wind up, close down", "(make (a gap) smaller): narrow", "(terminate a computer program): close out, exit" ], "kor": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] } } }