From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology 1
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Adjective
[en]
1. [close]
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1976 |editor=Sidney L. Greenblatt |title=The People of Taihang
|url=https://archive.org/details/peopleoftaihanga0000shan/ |location=White
Plains, NY |publisher=International Arts and Sciences Press
|ISBN=0-87332-059-X |LCCN=74-15389 |OCLC=924851974 |page=168
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/peopleoftaihanga0000shan/page/168/
|text=In the spring of 1938 the Japanese imperialists invaded Yü-tz'u and
T'ai-ku in Shansi. Everyone was in panic as the flames of war came CLOSER and
CLOSER to Hsiang-yüan hsien.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-07-20 | volume=408 | issue=8845 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=Welcome to the plastisphere (see
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21581981-what-pollution-some-opportunity-others-welcome-plastisphere)
|passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine]
debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about
the size of a bacterial cell. CLOSER examination showed that some of these
pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
1. Within a shorter distance.
***** Translations
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- Spanish: [es]
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*** Etymology 2
From [en], equivalent to [en].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Noun
[closer (baseball)] [en-noun]
1. Someone or something that close s.
2. Someone or something that conclude s.
3. [en] [en] .
4. The last stone in a horizontal course , if smaller than the others; a piece of brick finishing a course.
5. * [en]
6. [en] A relief pitcher who specializes in getting the last three out s of the game.
7. [en] A horse that performs best toward the end of a race.
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[baseball: relief pitcher]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]