close vs cool

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. 

cool

adj
  • Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold. 

  • Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem. 

  • Calmly audacious. 

  • Allowing or suggesting heat relief. 

  • Very interesting or exciting. 

  • (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with. 

  • Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others. 

  • (of an act or situation) annoying, irritating. 

  • (of a pair of people) holding no grudge against one another; having no beef. 

  • Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself. 

  • Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. 

  • In fashion and fancy, part of or befitting the most leading trends and habits of the in crowd; originally hipster slang. 

  • Of a color, in the range of violet to green. 

  • Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical. 

verb
  • To lose heat, to get colder. 

  • To make cooler, less warm. 

  • To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. 

  • To kill. 

  • To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. 

noun
  • A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness. 

  • A calm temperament. 

  • The property of being cool, popular or in fashion. 

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