"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 • ...
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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) temporarily, permanently
Kolokacji: 2
(2) officially, formally
Kolokacji: 2
(6) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(7) fast, carefully, tight
Kolokacji: 3
(10) immediately, instantly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) firmly, smoothly, hard
Kolokacji: 3
1. firmly close = stanowczo blisko firmly close
  • Not until the door was firmly closed behind them did Michael speak again.
  • Any other response opened a door he wanted to keep firmly closed.
  • When the last was inside the doors were firmly closed.
  • Hours later the heavy police station door closed firmly behind them.
  • He opened his mouth as if to speak, and then firmly closed it again.
  • She sat opposite him in his office with the door firmly closed.
  • Then she took hold of the handle and firmly closed the door.
  • After a minute she came out, firmly closing the door behind her.
  • It was as if a door closed firmly in his soul.
  • With that, she was gone, the door closing firmly behind her.
2. close hard = blisko twardy close hard
3. close smoothly = blisko płynnie close smoothly
(12) quietly, soundlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(14) shortly, briefly, silently
Kolokacji: 3
(15) indefinitely, definitively
Kolokacji: 2
(18) high, low
Kolokacji: 2
(19) virtually, essentially
Kolokacji: 2
(20) barely, hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
(24) relentlessly, repeatedly
Kolokacji: 2
(25) obediently, stubbornly
Kolokacji: 2

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