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close up

VERB
  1. unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
    close the circuit
    close up an umbrella
    close a book
    close a wound
  2. block passage through
    obstruct the path
  3. refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
    The children shut up when their father approached
  4. cease to operate or cause to cease operating
    My business closes every night at 8 P.M.
    The owners decided to move and to close the factory
    close up the shop
ADVERB
  1. very close
    without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up
    even firing at close range he missed
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How To Use close up In A Sentence

  • He adjusts the focus of the Carl Zeiss 120 mm macro lens, which allows him to work very close up.
  • Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • In other words, you can adjust the zoom and camera angle to be as far away or as close up as possible, and as upside down and round about as you like.
  • I got a hint from my mom in Japan to steam the frozen unagi in foil with sake in a frying pan for a bit 10 minish, then finish with pouring scolding hot water and close up the foil, to wash away the excess grease. Tuna Toast
  • When no one is left in Cuba to extract rents from, even the Castro "selectorate" may have no choice but to close up shop. The Economics and Philosophy of the Wall, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Now that I could see him close up, I saw that he was very attractive.
  • Close up, Carlile noticed the dark scummy shoreline and two car tires mired in the mud.
  • without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up
  • That is, close up, shut up, or, as is said now, "bung up," -- emphatically, "We kept true time;" and the probability is, that in saying this, Sir Toby would accompany the words with the action of pushing an imaginary door; or _sneck up_. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
  • Then he and Watts and the disappointed deputy doctor went off to bed, leaving "barkeep" to close up when the few loungers quit paying for drinks, and only in the common room was there further stir about the store. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
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