In a close manner. / (obsolete) secretly; privately

plural of closing

plural of close

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of close

The state of being close (all senses) / The state of being friends / The state of being mean or stingy / The state of being secretive / (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph

Near.

(of quantifiers of nouns) Approximately / (informal) Nearly; almost

(idiomatic) To enclose around; to tighten or shrink; to collapse. / (idiomatic) To catch up with in a chase; to near the end of a pursuit. / (idiomatic) To near a goal or completion.

An end or conclusion. / The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. / (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy. / A grapple in wrestling.

(now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field. / (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.