close
/kləʊz/ verb [I, T]Translation
DOOR/WINDOW ETC › If something closes, it moves so that it is not open, and if you close something, you make it move so that it is not open.
kapatmak
Jane closed the window. Lie down and close your eyes. Suddenly the door closed.1651PUBLIC PLACE › If a shop, restaurant, public place, etc closes, people cannot go in it.
kapamak, kapanmak
The supermarket closes at 8 p.m.1651ORGANIZATION ( also close down) › If a business or organization closes, or if someone or something closes it, it stops operating.
faaliyetine son vermek, çalışmamak
Many factories have closed in the last ten years.1427END › to end, or to end something
close (sth) down phrasal verb son vermek, kapatmak
She closed the meeting with a short speech.1555 › If a business or organization closes down, or if someone or something closes it down, it stops operating.
close in phrasal verb bir işi, işyerini kapatmak, çalışmaya son vermek
1427 › If people close in, they gradually get nearer to someone, usually in order to attack them or stop them escaping.
close sth off phrasal verb çevresini, etrafını sarmak, çevrelemek, kuşatmak
Police closed in on the demonstrators.1261 › to put something across the entrance to a place in order to stop people entering it
önünü kapatmak, germek, geçişi engellemek, girişine engel olmak
Police quickly closed off the area.1651(Definition of close verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish
© Cambridge University Press)
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