"close" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

close adjetivo

close + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 198
close friend • close relationship • close proximity • close tie • close range • close contact • close attention • close associate • ...
verbo + close
Kolokacji: 24
come close • stand close • lean close • sit close • live close • ...
adverbio + close
Kolokacji: 32
extremely close • particularly close • fairly close • relatively close • especially close • ...
(1) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
1. fairly close = dość blisko fairly close
2. pretty close = całkiem blisko pretty close
3. reasonably close = dość blisko reasonably close
  • These results, the competing teams say, are in reasonably close agreement.
  • The site must be reasonably close to the markets that will buy the shellfish.
  • For this reason, a safety sling should always be used together with the lewis until the stone is reasonably close to its final position.
  • This estimate is reasonably close to our observed rate of 93/1000.
  • If those letters were written in a reasonably close imitation of his sister's writing, it wouldn't occur to him to doubt them.
  • The family is thought to have been reasonably close relations to the ancestors of mammals.
  • Most of the delivery statistics in the table's second section are reasonably close to this 16 percent figure.
  • The tests in Massachusetts, for example, yield performance results that are reasonably close to the federal standard.
  • The game was a reasonably close affair; however, 'the Kingdom' never looked like losing.
  • All three are reasonably close to sources of picnic supplies or good places to eat.
(6) uncomfortably, somewhere
Kolokacji: 2
close + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
close to • close with • close for • close in • close by • ...

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