"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
1. close fast = blisko szybko close fast
  • I want to close faster, before he can build it much.
  • She closed the door fast so his wet air wouldn't get out.
  • We've only got about four hundred feet to play with, and it's closing fast.
  • There are five ships right behind us and closing fast.
  • You have opened a door to the Dark, and all will be lost if that is not again closed fast.
  • She wasn't yet fifty, but was closing in on it fast.
  • And indeed the front edge of the slide was closing fast.
  • A glance behind him showed that the thing was closing fast.
  • With the shutters all closed fast the house was almost too dark for even my eyes to see.
  • By this time the cop was no more than ten feet away and closing fast.
3. close tight = blisko ciasny close tight
(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
(24) relentlessly, repeatedly
Kolokacji: 2
(25) obediently, stubbornly
Kolokacji: 2

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