[
US
/ˈkɫoʊsɝ, ˈkɫoʊzɝ/
]
NOUN
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a person who closes something
whoever is the closer has to turn out the lights and lock up - (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game
ADVERB
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(comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance
getting nearer to the true explanation
come closer, my dear!
they drew nearer
How To Use closer In A Sentence
- Pluto, which has the greatest orbital eccentricity of any of the Solar System planets, was during those years at perihelion and actually closer than Neptune to the Sun.
- Steve up-anchored and obliged, taking us closer inshore to drop anchor on top of a wreck where the lads caught pouting three at a time.
- However, look a little closer, amid a region that stretches from the foothills east of the Pan-American Highway toward the Pacific Ocean, and there are a number of white wines with real character. The Catch of the Day
- RHP Brandon Lyon parlayed his surprising spring performance into the opening day closer job, supplanting RHP Greg Aquino.
- The closer he came the heavier the scent of barley-based ale became.
- As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain. Guanajuato restaurants
- On closer inspection a radiologist's report confirmed an impacted fracture, but the report never reached Dr Blakeley.
- Worse, the insurgents appear to be operating closer to Kabul.
- At last she gave her familiar nicker and stepped closer so he could gently rub her neck.
- Despite a string of victories-the judge's stinging decision enumerating Allen's "fraudulent modus operandi," occasional media coverage, and the support of real CIA agents and military heroes-he is no closer to collecting the $40,000 he says was "conned" from his family in 1993. Edgar Allen
