close vs sticky

close

adj
  • Hot, humid, with no wind. 

  • Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact. 

  • Marked, evident. 

  • Intimate; well-loved. 

  • Strictly confined; carefully guarded. 

  • Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict. 

  • Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near 

  • Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude. 

  • At a little distance; near. 

  • Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held. 

  • Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate. 

  • Narrow; confined. 

  • Short. 

  • Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced. 

verb
  • To move to a position allowing electricity to flow. 

  • To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon. 

  • To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing. 

  • To cancel or reverse (a trading position). 

  • To make (e.g. a gap) smaller. 

  • To make a sale. 

  • To move so that an opening is closed. 

  • To grapple; to engage in close combat. 

  • To make the final outs, usually three, of a game. 

  • To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc. 

  • To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine. 

  • To come to an end. 

  • To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate. 

  • To obstruct (an opening). 

  • To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night. 

  • To turn off; to switch off. 

noun
  • The common staircase in a tenement. 

  • A cathedral close. 

  • The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed 

  • The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy. 

  • The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence. 

  • A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor. 

  • An end or conclusion. 

  • A grapple in wrestling. 

  • The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. 

  • The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight. 

  • A double bar marking the end. 

  • A street that ends in a dead end. 

sticky

adj
  • Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating. 

  • Tending to stay the same; resistant to change. 

  • Resembling or characteristic of a stick. 

  • Able or likely to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance. 

  • Persistent. 

  • Potentially difficult to escape from. 

  • Appearing on all virtual desktops. 

  • Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. 

  • Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving. 

verb
  • to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. 

noun
  • A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. 

  • A sticky note, such as a post-it note. 

  • A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper. 

  • A sweet dessert wine. 

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