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close(1) To finish reading or writing a document. The close function typically saves any changes made to the document and releases the file so it can be used by another application. Contrast with open. close1 restricted or prohibited as to the type of game or fish able to be taken close2 1. Law private property, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge, or wall 2. Brit a courtyard or quadrangle enclosed by buildings or an entry leading to such a courtyard 3. Brit a small quiet residential road 4. the precincts of a cathedral or similar building 5. Scot the entry from the street to a tenement building 6. Music another word for cadence. A perfect cadence is called a full close an imperfect one a half close close [klōs] (computer science) To make a file unavailable to a computer program which previously had access to it. (meteorology) Colloquially, descriptive of oppressively still, warm, moist air, frequently applied to indoor conditions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Akut had now wandered quite close beneath the tree wherein lay the waiting death. From time to time one or another of them had passed close to Teeka, and Tarzan had been uninterested. Tom's turn came last, and meanwhile he was all eyes, looking first with awe at the great man, who sat close to him, and was helped first, and who read a hard-looking book all the time he was eating; and when he got up and walked off to the fire, at the small boys round him, some of whom were reading, and the rest talking in whispers to one another, or stealing one another's bread, or shooting pellets, or digging their forks through the tablecloth. |
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