Closing-time

Definition

close /klǝƱs/ adj ( -r , -st ) ၁။ ~ (to sb/sth) ; ~ (together) (အခ်ိန္၊ ေနရာ)နီး[ေသာ]၊ နီးကပ္[ေသာ]။ 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) ေသြးနီးေသာ။ a close relative. (ခ) ~ (to sb) ရင္းႏီွးေသာ။ a close friend ❍ She is very close to her father/She and her father are very close. (ဂ) (အလုပ္သေဘာအရ)နီးကပ္ေသာ၊ ဆက္သြယ္မႈရိွေသာ။ the Queen's closest advisers ❍ The two companies have close links with each other. ❍ She maintains close contact with the school. ၃။ ~ (to sth) ထပ္တူနီးပါးျဖစ္ေသာ။ …လုနီးပါးျဖစ္ေသာ။ There's a close resemblance/similarity (ie They are very much alike). ❍ His feeling for her was close to hatred. ၄။ အေသအခ်ာ။ အေသးစိတ္။ အနီးကပ္။ On closer examination/inspection the painting proved to be a fake. ❍ pay close attention to sth ❍ close reasoning (ie showing each step clearly). ၅။ ပြတ္ကာသီကာ ႏွာတစ္ဖ်ားျဖင့္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ a close contest/match/election ❍ a close finish ❍ The game was closer than the score suggests. အမွတ္ကေက်ာေပမည့္ ပြဲကေတာ့ အႀကိတ္အနယ္ပဲ။ ၆။ စိပ္ေသာ။ ႁပြတ္သိပ္ေသာ။ DENSE: close print ❍ The soldiers advanced in close formation. ၇။ သီသီကေလး။ လက္မတင္ကေလး။ We caught the train in the end, but it was close (ie we nearly missed it). ၈။ ေျပာင္ေအာင္။ အငုတ္မက်န္ေအာင္။ A new razor gives a close shave. ၉။ လံုၿခံဳေအာင္ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားေသာ။ in close confinement ❍ be (kept) under close arrest ❍ keep sth a close secret. ၁၀။ ( esp Brit ) (က) အိုက္စပ္စပ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ humid: It's very close and thundery today. (ခ) မြန္း က်ပ္ေသာ။ ေလွာင္ေသာ။ STUFFY ၁: a close atmosphere ❍ Open a window—it's very close in here. ၁၁။ ~ (about sth) သိုသိပ္[ေသာ]။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္[ေသာ]။ secretive: She's always been a bit close about their relationship. ၁၂။ ~ (with sth) ကပ္ေစးႏွဲ[ေသာ]။ တြန္႔တို[ေသာ]။ stingy: He's very close with his money. ၁၃။ ( phonetics ) (သရ သံ) ဌာန္ခ်င္းနီးေသာ။ 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. သမီးကေတာ့ သူ႕ အေမနဲ႔ခြၽတ္စြပ္ပဲ။ ❍ The two events are closely connected. closeness n [U] v /klǝƱz/ ၁။ ပိတ္သည္။ ဖံုးသည္။ 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) (လုပ္ငန္း) ပိတ္သည္၊ ပိတ္ ထားသည္။ 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။ အၿပီးသတ္သည္။ နိဂံုးခ်ဳပ္သည္။ 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. သံမဏိရွယ္ယာေဈးသည္ ၁၅-ေပါင္ႏွင့္ ေဈးသိမ္းသြား သည္။ ၄။ မီလာ၊ ကပ္လာ၊ နီးလာသည္။ 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 နီးကပ္စြာ။ ပူးကပ္လ်က္။ 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 ) (လုပ္ငန္း၊ ကာလခ်ိန္တာ) အဆံုး၊ အဆံုးပိုင္း။ at the close of the day တစ္ေန႔တာ ၏နိဂံုး။ ❍ 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 ) (တစ္ဖက္ပိတ္လမ္းမ်ား တြင္ လမ္းအမည္၌ထည့္သံုးေသာ စကားလံုး)။ Brookside Close. See also CUL-DE-SAC ၃။ ( Brit ) (ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုရား ရိွခိုးေက်ာင္း စသည္၏) ပရိဝုဏ္။ ❏ at/from close quarters [ IDM ] အနီးကပ္။ fighting at close quarters. ❏ behind closed doors [ IDM ] တံခါးပိတ္ (စည္းေဝးသည္။ ) The meeting was held behind closed doors. ❏ close around/round/over sb/sth [ PHRV ] သိမ္းက်ံဳး၍ ကိုင္သည္၊ ဖက္သည္။ 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 ) သီသီကေလး လြတ္ျခင္း။ We didn't actually hit the other car, but it was a close call. ❏ close-cropped (also close-cut ) adj တိုတို ညႇပ္ထားေသာ။ ❏ a closed book (to sb) [ IDM ] နကန္းတစ္လံုးမွ် မသိေသာ ဘာသာရပ္။ Nuclear physics is a closed book to most of us. ❏ close down [ PHRV ] (ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား) အစီအစဥ္ ၿပီးဆံုးသည္။ It is midnight and we are now closing down. ❏ close (sth) down [ PHRV ] ပိတ္သည္။ ရပ္စဲသည္။ Many businesses have closed down because of the recession. ❏ close-down n ၁။ လုပ္ငန္းပိတ္လိုက္ျခင္း။ ၂။ (ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား)အစီအစဥ္ ၿပီးဆံုးျခင္း။ ❏ close-fitting adj (အဝတ္) ကိုယ္ႏွင့္အံကိုက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ❏ close-fought , close-run adjs ပြတ္ကာသီကာႏိုင္ေသာ။ ႏွာတစ္ဖ်ားႏွင့္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ The election was a close-run thing. ❏ close in [ PHRV ] (ေန႔တာ)တိုလာသည္။ The days are closing in now that autumn is here. ❏ close in (on sb/sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ လႊမ္းၿခံဳသည္။ Darkness was gradually closing in. ၂။ (တိုက္ခိုက္ရန္)ဝိုင္း လာသည္။ The enemy is closing in (on us). ❏ close-knit adj အလြန္စည္းလံုးေသာ။ the close-knit community of a small village. ❏ close one's mind to sth [ IDM ] ထည့္မစဥ္းစား။ He's closed his mind to the idea of moving to the States. ❏ close on [ IDM ] (နီး)ကပ္ေနၿပီ။ She is close on sixty. ❍ It's close on midnight. ❏ close (the/one's) ranks [ IDM ] ၁။ အေၾကာင္းေၾကာင္း ကိုေမ့ထားၿပီး ေသြးစည္းညီၫြတ္သည္။ In times of crisis party members should close ranks. ၂။ တန္းခ်ဲ ထားရာမွ တန္းစုသည္ (သို႔) (လက္ခါးေထာက္၍) အတြဲလိုက္စုသည္။ ❏ close season (also esp US closed season ) n [sing] (သားငွက္တိရစၧာန္) ေဘးမဲ့ရာသီ။ ❏ close-set adj ကပ္ေသာ။ ေစ့ေသာ။ close-set eyes/ teeth. ❏ close up [ PHRV ] အနာက်က္သည္။ The cut took a long time to close up. ❏ close-up n [C, U] အနီးကပ္ပံု။ 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 ] ပူးကပ္သည္။ She snuggled close up to him. ❏ close (sth) up [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ေခတၱ)ပိတ္သည္။ Sorry, madam, we're closing up for lunch. ❍ He closes the store up at 5.30. ၂။ စုသည္။ ကပ္သည္။ ပူးသည္။ The sergeant-major ordered the men to close up (ranks). ❏ close with sb [ PHRV ] ( dated ) အနီးကပ္ ရင္ဆိုင္တိုက္ သည္။ close with the enemy. ❏ closing date n (ေလွ်ာက္လႊာ)ပိတ္ရက္။ The closing date for applications is 25 May. ❏ closing-time n (ဆိုင္)ပိတ္ခ်ိန္။ ❏ come close (to sth/doing sth) [ IDM ] လုနီးပါး။ … ေတာ့မလို႔။ 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 ] မ်က္လံုး ေဒါက္ေထာက္ၾကည့္သည္။ ❏ run sb/sth close [ IDM ] မနီးယိုးစြဲလိုက္သည္။ We run our competitors close for price and quality.

Examples

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