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The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality ( ' , 专业) and rank.
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He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.
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When he looked closer he realized it was a huge group of bees.
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Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.
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They are closely related to physical and mental exercise.
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Obviously there are cultural differences, but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you wouldn't think that's the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.
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It brought family members closer to each other.
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They help students form closer relationships.
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It is closely related to research.
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The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it is considering closing about 3,700 post offices over the next year because of falling revenues.
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On Sunday, the castle’s owner John Gordon, 76, was forced to move out his property after the River Dee swept away about 60 feet of land, leaving the castle dangerously close to the river, according to the Scottish Daily Record.
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Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.
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A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.
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We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.
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But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero's claim that one should criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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But actually, the country is closer to his proposal than you might think.
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A writer should polish his writing repeatedly so as to get closer to perfection.
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Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.
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As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn't good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.
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Mr Jobs had a reputation as a control freak (怪人), and his critics complained that the products and systems he designed were closed and inflexible, in the name of greater ease of use.
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In the Great Depression many unhappy couples close to stick together because
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maintain closer relationships with their teachers
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It deserves our closest attention.
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The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rocking chair and read a half dozen newspapers.
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It's southwest, so it isn't really very close to Amitsville at all and it's a long drive.
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They are quite close to each other
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He likes to work in a company close to home.
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Why do Japanese listeners sometimes close their eyes while listening to a speech?
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While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.
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Japanese listeners sometimes closed their eyes to enhance concentration
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There are close to one million nerve fibres that connect the eyeball to the brain, as of yet it is impossible to attach them all in a new person.
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She could work close to her family.
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Already, by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years.
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Drug abuse is the use of a drug, legal or illegal, that hurts a person or someone close to him.
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finally, the FBI received a tip that the stolen document was located very close to Washington, D.C.
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Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.
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On Sunday, the castle's owner John Gordon, 76, was forced to move out his property after the river Dee swept away about 60 feet of land, leaving the castle dangerously close to the river, according to the Scottish Daily Record.
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Some asked subjects about incidents where someone close to them一family or friend一had called them by another person's name.
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The other surveys asked about times when subjects had themselves called someone close to them by the wrong name.
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They were very close together and there was a lot of noise and movements.
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Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park's baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.
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We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.
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with this variety will come the end of the close association of age and stage.
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Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.
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They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.
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The retailer also announced the locations of 36 stores it will close in early 2016.
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Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.
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None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.
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Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at the dawn of this new millennium ( ' , 千年).
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Intimacy is the feeling of closeness, of connectedness with someone, of bonding.
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In ponds closest to the colony, the result showed there were far more pollutants than the ponds less affected by the birds.
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After sorting the deals by category, they determined that among the 512 brands associated with the athletes, most involve sporting goods, followed closely by food and beverage brands.
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Perhaps a new phrase is needed, one that can bring everyone one big step closer to realizing Du Bois's original, idealistic hope: It's not the name—it's the Thing that counts..
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Given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule.
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But one costs $50 a dose and the other close to $2,000.
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Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.
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All researches agree that close to 25 billion devices, things and sensors will be connected by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that millennials are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce, and the fully connected home will becom
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As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn't good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.
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In turn, feeling close to objects can alleviate loneliness.
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Plus, we live in a culture that caters to the late-nighter, from 24-hour grocery stores to online shopping sites that never close.
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since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco- Roman and Italian
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Smart basketball players or skilled musicians need to pay close attention to the demands of high performance, to the challenges to be overcome.
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Such initiatives close doors for many pupils.
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The bird Clark's nutcracker, for example, hides up to 100, 000 seeds per year, up to 30 kilometers away from the seed source, and has a very close symbiotic(共生的) relationship with several pine species, most 32 notably the whitebark pine.
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This is surprising when you consider the prevailing emphasis by scholars and trainers and managers on the importance of cultivating close interpersonal relationships at work.
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Yet it is worth noting that even if Apple ultimately loses this case, it has plenty of technical means to close a backdoor over time.
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Noun
1. the temporal end; the concluding time;
"the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell""the market was up at the finish""they were playing better at the close of the season"2. the last section of a communication;
"in conclusion I want to say..."3. the concluding part of any performance
Verb
1. cease to operate or cause to cease operating;
"The owners decided to move and to close the factory""My business closes every night at 8 P.M."2. complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement;
"We closed on the house on Friday""They closed the deal on the building"3. move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut;
"Close the door""shut the window"4. bar access to;
"Due to the accident, the road had to be closed for several hours"5. finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.);
"The meeting was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board"6. draw near;
"The probe closed with the space station"7. come to a close;
"The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin"8. become closed;
"The windows closed with a loud bang"9. come together, as if in an embrace;
"Her arms closed around her long lost relative"10. unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of;
"close the circuit""close a wound"11. bring together all the elements or parts of;
"Management closed ranks"12. engage at close quarters;
"close with the enemy"13. be priced or listed when trading stops;
"The stock market closed high this Friday""My new stocks closed at $59 last night"14. cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
15. change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
16. fill or stop up;
"Can you close the cracks with caulking?"17. finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead;
"The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning"Adjective
1. at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other;
"close to noon""how close are we to town?""a close formation of ships"2. close in relevance or relationship;
"a close family""we are all...in close sympathy with...""close kin""a close resemblance"3. not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances;
"near neighbors""in the near future""they are near equals""his nearest approach to success""a very near thing""a near hit by the bomb""she was near tears""she was close to tears""had a close call"4. rigorously attentive; strict and thorough;
"close supervision""paid close attention""a close study""kept a close watch on expenditures"5. marked by fidelity to an original;
"a close translation""a faithful copy of the portrait""a faithful rendering of the observed facts"6. (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched;
"a close contest""a close election""a tight game"7. crowded;
"close quarters"8. lacking fresh air;
"a dusty airless attic""the dreadfully close atmosphere""hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"9. of textiles;
"a close weave""smooth percale with a very tight weave"10. strictly confined or guarded;
"kept under close custody"11. confined to specific persons;
"a close secret"12. fitting closely but comfortably;
"a close fit"13. used of hair or haircuts;
"a close military haircut"14. giving or spending with reluctance;
"our cheeseparing administration""very close (or near) with his money""a penny-pinching miserly old man"15. inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information;
"although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"Adverb
1. near in time or place or relationship;
"as the wedding day drew near""stood near the door""don't shoot until they come near""getting near to the true explanation""her mother is always near""The end draws nigh""the bullet didn't come close""don't get too close to the fire"2. in an attentive manner;
"he remained close on his guard"