"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
(18) high, low
Kolokacji: 2
(19) virtually, essentially
Kolokacji: 2
(20) barely, hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
1. barely closed = ledwie zamknąć barely closed
2. hardly closed = ledwie zamknąć hardly closed
  • The door had hardly closed before another man appeared from the stairway leading up to the mezzanine.
  • Spokane may still be mostly white, but it is hardly closed to other races.
  • Nevertheless, the door had hardly closed before Dunninger turned about.
  • They had hardly closed the gate before I sprang from the window and ran to the well.
  • It seemed he had hardly closed his eyes when Sandecker was shaking him.
  • The door had hardly closed behind the old woman when the sun sank below the horizon, and Desiree became a girl again.
  • The door had hardly closed behind the three when Tom plunged into his problem.
  • Her mouth hardly ever closed, except to chew her food, for the space of two whole hours.
  • He had hardly closed his eyes when somebody tapped him on the shoulder.
  • He had hardly closed his eyes before Ogier shook him awake.
3. scarcely closed = ledwie zamknąć scarcely closed
(24) relentlessly, repeatedly
Kolokacji: 2
(25) obediently, stubbornly
Kolokacji: 2

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