very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed"
refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"
unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella"
cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop"
an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures"
a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden); "the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited"
a layer of material that encloses space; "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue"
(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; "stomach walls"
anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect; "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"; "negotiations ran into a brick wall"
a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall"
create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles"
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves
a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix
(anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration