close on

US pronunciation

American soundclose on

closeon

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

close - on -> close on

Myanmar meaning

(idm) (နီး)ကပ်နေပြီ။ အကြောင်းကြောင်း ကိုမေ့ထားပြီး သွေးစည်းညီညွတ်သည်။ တန်းချဲ ထားရာမှ တန်းစုသည် (သို့) (လက်ခါးထောက်၍) အတွဲလိုက်စုသည်။

Full entry

close /klǝƱs/ adj (-r , -st )

၁။ ~ (to sb/sth) ; ~ (together)
(အချိန်၊ နေရာ)နီး[သော]၊ နီးကပ်[သော]။ ခါနီး။ The church is close to the school. ❍ The two buildings are close together. ❍ This supermarket is our closest (ie the nearest one to our home). ❍ be in close proximity (ie almost touching) ❍ The children are close to each other in age. ❍ Their birthdays are very close together. ❍ Christmas is getting close. ❍ The policeman was shot at close range (ie from nearby). ❍ He was close to tears (ie almost crying).
၂။ (က) သွေးနီးသော။
a close relative.
(ခ) ~ (to sb) ရင်းနှီးသော။
a close friend ❍ She is very close to her father/She and her father are very close.
(ဂ) (အလုပ်သဘောအရ)နီးကပ်သော၊ ဆက်သွယ်မှုရှိသော။ the Queen's closest advisers ❍ The two companies have close links with each other. ❍ She maintains close contact with the school.
၃။ ~ (to sth) ထပ်တူနီးပါးဖြစ်သော။ …လုနီးပါးဖြစ်သော။
There's a close resemblance/similarity (ie They are very much alike). ❍ His feeling for her was close to hatred.
၄။ အသေအချာ။ အသေးစိတ်။ အနီးကပ်။
On closer examination/inspection the painting proved to be a fake. ❍ pay close attention to sth ❍ close reasoning (ie showing each step clearly).
၅။ ပွတ်ကာသီကာ နှာတစ်ဖျားဖြင့်နိုင်သော။ a close contest/match/election ❍ a close finish ❍ The game was closer than the score suggests. အမှတ်ကကျောပေမည့် ပွဲကတော့ အကြိတ်အနယ်ပဲ။
၆။ စိပ်သော။ ပြွတ်သိပ်သော။ DENSE: close print ❍ The soldiers advanced in close formation.
၇။ သီသီကလေး။ လက်မတင်ကလေး။
We caught the train in the end, but it was close (ie we nearly missed it).
၈။ ပြောင်အောင်။ အငုတ်မကျန်အောင်။ A new razor gives a close shave.
၉။ လုံခြုံအောင် ထိန်းသိမ်းထားသော။
in close confinement ❍ be (kept) under close arrest ❍ keep sth a close secret.
၁၀။ (esp Brit )
(က) အိုက်စပ်စပ်ဖြစ်သော။ humid: It's very close and thundery today.
(ခ) မွန်း ကျပ်သော။ လှောင်သော။ STUFFY ၁: a close atmosphere ❍ Open a window—it's very close in here.
၁၁။ ~ (about sth) သိုသိပ်[သော]။ လျှို့ဝှက်[သော]။ secretive: She's always been a bit close about their relationship.
၁၂။ ~ (with sth) ကပ်စေးနှဲ[သော]။ တွန့်တို[သော]။ stingy: He's very close with his money.
၁၃။ (phonetics ) (သရ သံ) ဌာန်ချင်းနီးသော။ The English vowels /i:/ and /u:/ are close. closely adv listen closely (ie carefully) ❍ follow an argument closely ❍ a closely contested election ❍ She closely resembles her mother. သမီးကတော့ သူ့ အမေနဲ့ချွတ်စွပ်ပဲ။ ❍ The two events are closely connected. closeness n [U]
v /klǝƱz/
၁။ ပိတ်သည်။ ဖုံးသည်။ close a door/a window/the curtains ❍ If you close your eyes, you can't see anything. ❍ The door closed quietly. ❍ This box/The lid of this box doesn't close properly (ie the lid does not fit well).
၂။ ~ sth (to sb/sth) (လုပ်ငန်း) ပိတ်သည်၊ ပိတ် ထားသည်။ The shops close (ie stop trading) at 5.30. ❍ The theatres have closed for the summer. ❍ They closed our local station years ago. ❍ The museum is closed (to visitors) on Mondays. ❍ This road is closed to traffic at the moment. See also EARLY CLOSING
၃။ အပြီးသတ်သည်။ နိဂုံးချုပ်သည်။ The debate is now in its closing stages (ie has nearly finished). ❍ The speaker closed (the meeting) with a word of thanks to the chairman. ❍ As far as I am concerned the matter is closed (ie will not be discussed further). ❍ I hope to close the deal (ie complete it) within the next two days. ❍ Steel shares closed at £15. သံမဏိရှယ်ယာဈေးသည် ၁၅-ပေါင်နှင့် ဈေးသိမ်းသွား သည်။
၄။ မီလာ၊ ကပ်လာ၊ နီးလာသည်။ The gap between the two runners is beginning to close (ie One runner is catching up with the other). ❍ He's closing the gap on his rivals.
adv နီးကပ်စွာ။ ပူးကပ်လျက်။ They sat close to each other/close together. ❍ hold sb close (ie tightly in one's arms) ❍ follow close behind sb ❍ She stood close (up) against the wall.
n
၁။ [sing] (esp fml ) (လုပ်ငန်း၊ ကာလချိန်တာ) အဆုံး၊ အဆုံးပိုင်း။ at the close of the day တစ်နေ့တာ ၏နိဂုံး။ ❍ towards the close of the 17th century ❍ The day had reached its close. ❍ at close of play (ie at the end of the day's play in a cricket match) ❍ The ceremony was brought to/came to/drew to a close with the singing of the national anthem.
၂။ (Brit ) (တစ်ဖက်ပိတ်လမ်းများ တွင် လမ်းအမည်၌ထည့်သုံးသော စကားလုံး)။ Brookside Close. See also CUL-DE-SAC
၃။ (Brit ) (ခရစ်ယာန်ဘုရား ရှိခိုးကျောင်း စသည်၏) ပရိဝုဏ်။
❏ at/from close quarters [IDM ] အနီးကပ်။ fighting at close quarters.
❏ behind closed doors [IDM ] တံခါးပိတ် (စည်းဝေးသည်။ ) The meeting was held behind closed doors.
❏ close around/round/over sb/sth [PHRV ] သိမ်းကျုံး၍ ကိုင်သည်၊ ဖက်သည်။ His hand closed over the money. ❍ She felt his arms close tightly around her.
❏ close by (sb/sth) [IDM ] အနား၌။ We lived close by the sea. ❍ Our friends live close by (ie near here).
❏ a close call/shave [IDM ] (infml ) သီသီကလေး လွတ်ခြင်း။ We didn't actually hit the other car, but it was a close call.
❏ close-cropped (also close-cut ) adj တိုတို ညှပ်ထားသော။
❏ a closed book (to sb) [IDM ] နကန်းတစ်လုံးမျှ မသိသော ဘာသာရပ်။ Nuclear physics is a closed book to most of us.
❏ close down [PHRV ] (ရေဒီယို၊ ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား) အစီအစဉ် ပြီးဆုံးသည်။ It is midnight and we are now closing down.
❏ close (sth) down [PHRV ] ပိတ်သည်။ ရပ်စဲသည်။ Many businesses have closed down because of the recession.
❏ close-down n
၁။ လုပ်ငန်းပိတ်လိုက်ခြင်း။
၂။ (ရေဒီယို၊ ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား)အစီအစဉ် ပြီးဆုံးခြင်း။
❏ close-fitting adj (အဝတ်) ကိုယ်နှင့်အံကိုက်ဖြစ်သော။
❏ close-fought , close-run adjs ပွတ်ကာသီကာနိုင်သော။ နှာတစ်ဖျားနှင့်နိုင်သော။ The election was a close-run thing.
❏ close in [PHRV ] (နေ့တာ)တိုလာသည်။ The days are closing in now that autumn is here.
❏ close in (on sb/sth) [PHRV ]
၁။ လွှမ်းခြုံသည်။ Darkness was gradually closing in.
၂။ (တိုက်ခိုက်ရန်)ဝိုင်း လာသည်။ The enemy is closing in (on us).
❏ close-knit adj အလွန်စည်းလုံးသော။ the close-knit community of a small village.
❏ close one's mind to sth [IDM ] ထည့်မစဉ်းစား။ He's closed his mind to the idea of moving to the States.
❏ close on [IDM ] (နီး)ကပ်နေပြီ။ She is close on sixty. ❍ It's close on midnight.
❏ close (the/one's) ranks [IDM ]
၁။ အကြောင်းကြောင်း ကိုမေ့ထားပြီး သွေးစည်းညီညွတ်သည်။ In times of crisis party members should close ranks.
၂။ တန်းချဲ ထားရာမှ တန်းစုသည် (သို့) (လက်ခါးထောက်၍) အတွဲလိုက်စုသည်။
❏ close season (also esp US closed season ) n [sing] (သားငှက်တိရစ္ဆာန်) ဘေးမဲ့ရာသီ။
❏ close-set adj ကပ်သော။ စေ့သော။ close-set eyes/ teeth.
❏ close up [PHRV ] အနာကျက်သည်။ The cut took a long time to close up.
❏ close-up n [C, U] အနီးကပ်ပုံ။ a close-up of a human eye ❍ a television scene filmed in close-up ❍ close-up pictures of the planet.
❏ close up (to sb/sth) [IDM ] ပူးကပ်သည်။ She snuggled close up to him.
❏ close (sth) up [PHRV ]
၁။ (ခေတ္တ)ပိတ်သည်။ Sorry, madam, we're closing up for lunch. ❍ He closes the store up at 5.30.
၂။ စုသည်။ ကပ်သည်။ ပူးသည်။ The sergeant-major ordered the men to close up (ranks).
❏ close with sb [PHRV ] (dated ) အနီးကပ် ရင်ဆိုင်တိုက် သည်။ close with the enemy.
❏ closing date n (လျှောက်လွှာ)ပိတ်ရက်။ The closing date for applications is 25 May.
❏ closing-time n (ဆိုင်)ပိတ်ချိန်။
❏ come close (to sth/doing sth) [IDM ] လုနီးပါး။ … တော့မလို့။ He'd come close to death. ❍ We didn't win, but we came close (to winning).
❏ keep a close eye/watch on sb/sth [IDM ] မျက်လုံး ဒေါက်ထောက်ကြည့်သည်။
❏ run sb/sth close [IDM ] မနီးယိုးစွဲလိုက်သည်။ We run our competitors close for price and quality.

More examples

Close the door quietly behind you.
Did the fridge door close completely?
I was just closing my eyes to go to sleep when the phone rang.
Her mouth closed after a moment and she said nothing.
Nick closed his book and put it down.
Closing the umbrella, she ran for the car.
We close the office at noon on Fridays.
Snow forced both airports to close.
[close for] : We will close for stocktaking next week.
[close on] : The Blue Café closes on Mondays.
The government plans to close 10 coal mines.
Small shops are closing because of competition from the large chains.
They have closed their border with Albania.
[close something to something] : There is a proposal to close the park to traffic.
[close something for something] : The bridge will have to be closed for repairs.
Can we close this matter and move on?
Her latest Broadway show closed after only three performances.
[close with] : The letter closes with an appeal for money.
[close something by doing something] : He closed the meeting by thanking everyone for coming.
[close a case] : The police are closing the case because of a lack of evidence.
[close on] : Williams was leading but the other runners were closing on him fast.
[close the gap between] : Closing the gap between rich and poor would help to improve the health of the nation.
We closed our bank account and opened a new one online.
He had to lower the price to close the sale.

Synonyms

shut, lock, seal, close up, secure, slam, put up the shutters, abutting, accurate, across the street, adjacent, adjoining, adjournment, agree, airless, along the side of, alongside, apace with, approaching, around the corner, at hand, at the side of, attached, bang, bar, be over, beside, bind, block, blockade, bolt, breathless, bring to a close, buddy-buddy, button, button down, button up, buttoning one's lip, buttoning up, by the side of, call it a day, call off, cap, careful, caulk, cease, cessation, chain, cheek-to-cheek, chintzy, choke, choky, chummy, circumscribed, clamming up, clap, clear, clench, clinch, clog, close at hand, close by, close down, close together, close-fisted, close-grained, close-lipped, closefisted, closemouthed, coalesce, collapse, come together, compact, complete, completion, compressed, concentrated, conclude, conclusion, confidential, confine, confined, confining, congest, congested, connect, conscientious, consolidated, consummate, contiguous, convenient, cork, couple, cozy with, cramped, cropped, crowded, culminate, culmination, cut loose, dam, dear, definite, denouement, dense, desistance, determine, devoted, discontinue, do, draw to a close, drop the curtain, encounter, end, ending, equal, equal with, even-steven, exact, exclude, eye to eye, faithful, familiar, fasten, fill, finale, finish, firm, fold, fold up, friendly, fuse, fusty, gather, give or take a little, go bust, go into liquidation, go out of business, grapple, grudging, halt, handy, hard by, heavy, hidden, humid, hush-hush, illiberal, immediate, imminent, impending, impenetrable, impermeable, in company with, in spitting distance, in the ball park, inclose, inseparable, intimate, intimately

Antonyms

afar, allow, away, away from, begin, beginning, beyond, clear, commence, commencement, continue, cool, detached, disconnect, disjoin, distant, disunite, divide, dry, empty, far, far afield, far away, far off, faraway, farther away, foreign, free, fresh, generous, giving, gone away, imprecise, in the distance, inaccurate, inexact, initiate, initiation, large, lax, lengthy, let go, liberate, long, loose, loosen, not finish, not here, off, open, opening, permit, public, release, remote, separate, slack, slight, sociable, start, to one side, turning aside, unabridged, unblock, unclog, unclose, uncongested, uncramped, uncrowded, unfasten, unfriendly, unlock, unplug, unreliable, unreserved, unseal, unstop, untie, yon, yonder