"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
(12) quietly, soundlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(14) shortly, briefly, silently
Kolokacji: 3
(15) indefinitely, definitively
Kolokacji: 2
1. closed indefinitely = zamknięty na czas nieokreślony closed indefinitely
2. close definitively = blisko nieodwołalnie close definitively
  • Under new management as the Société du Louvre, it closed definitively in 1974.
  • It closed definitively on 15 January 2011.
  • A year ago, when the Butchers - already reduced to intermittent opening days - closed down definitively, the villagers decided to buy it.
  • It operated, continually at a loss, using the same (rather archaic) equipment and processes until 1984, when it definitively closed.
  • "You did the correct thing, and now we can consider the case of the Stormcloud violin definitively closed."
  • The place closed definitively in 1996, and was occupied by squatters for several years.
  • For economic reasons, the firm declared bankruptcy in the early 1950s and closed definitively in 1953.
  • The elementary school closed definitively in 1974.
  • On March 7, 2007, the company announced its bankruptcy and closed definitively.
  • And, by definitively closing the book on the past, the language of socialism also remains trapped in Stalinism's wreckage.
(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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