"close" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

close verbo

close + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 93
close factories • close one's eyes • close one's mouth • close one's hand • close one's office • close one's borders • close one's fingers • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) factory, plant, studio
Kolokacji: 3
(3) mouth, lip, jaw, tooth
Kolokacji: 4
(6) rank, arm, wound
Kolokacji: 3
(9) account, file, minute
Kolokacji: 3
(10) loophole, gap, window, throat
Kolokacji: 4
(11) door, hatch, gate
Kolokacji: 3
(12) lid, ear, eyelid
Kolokacji: 3
(13) store, shop, browser
Kolokacji: 4
(14) operation, quarter, encounter
Kolokacji: 3
3. close encounters = bliskie spotkania close encounters
  • The conversation turned to close encounters with bell-less bicyclists.
  • The asteroid periodically alternates between these two orbits due to close encounters with Earth.
  • Close encounters of the third kind.
  • Objects with eccentric orbits continue to increase in orbital eccentricity over longer time-scales to eventually break out of resonance due to close encounters with a major planet.
  • These orbits slowly increase their eccentricity on a timescale of tens of millions of years, and will eventually break out of the resonance due to close encounters with a major planet.
  • 'Close encounters of the worst kind,' she used to call them.
  • To close encounters with Matthew Blake.
  • Until the mid-1960s, NICAP gave little attention to close encounters of the third kind (where animated beings are purportedly sighted in relation to a UFO).
  • It is thought these stars have lost part of their outer layers due to close encounters with other cluster members or perhaps the result of collisions between stars in the dense cluster.
  • To do so, maybe one would have had to have been recently exposed to close encounters with a spoon.
(15) distance, proximity
Kolokacji: 2
(16) book, show, notebook
Kolokacji: 3
(17) deficit, shortfall
Kolokacji: 2
(18) investigation, scrutiny
Kolokacji: 2
(22) Gates, Option, relative
Kolokacji: 3
(23) branch, valve, heart
Kolokacji: 3
(24) curtain, shutter
Kolokacji: 2
(25) Shoreham
Kolokacji: 1
verbo + close
Kolokacji: 32
help close • plan to close • forced to close • scheduled to close • begin closing • try to close • decide to close • expected to close • ...
close + preposición
Kolokacji: 56
close down • close behind • closed until • close up • close off • close out • ...
close + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 107
temporarily closed • permanently closed • officially closed • tightly closed • close early • slowly close • quickly close • finally close • ...

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