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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Located close together
Example:
approximate leaves grow together but are not united
Synonyms:
approximate; close together
Classified under:
Similar:
close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)
Context examples:
The six horses were so close together that a carpet could have covered them, but half way up the yellow of the Mapleton stable showed to the front.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Toward evening they came to a great forest, where the trees grew so big and close together that their branches met over the road of yellow brick.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The beast and I were brought close together, and by our countenances diligently compared both by master and servant, who thereupon repeated several times the word Yahoo.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
One of our men, however, informing me on my asking him about these places, that they were all close together, I deemed this enough for my object, and resolved to set out at the end of that week.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But it was jammed beneath the overturned sled, and by the time Henry had helped him to right the load, One Ear and the she-wolf were too close together and the distance too great to risk a shot.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Touching or very close together.
(Contiguous, NCI Dictionary)
The odd shape has scientists thinking two bodies may be orbiting very close together or even touching – what’s known as a close or contact binary – or perhaps they’re observing a single body with a large chunk taken out of it.
(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)
Once stuck close together on these cell membranes, the amyloid-beta molecules have a greater chance to come into contact with each other and start to aggregate – in fact, the researchers found that cholesterol speeds up the aggregation of amyloid-beta by a factor of 20.
(Brain cholesterol associated with increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, University of Cambridge)
I remember, before the dwarf left the queen, he followed us one day into those gardens, and my nurse having set me down, he and I being close together, near some dwarf apple trees, I must needs show my wit, by a silly allusion between him and the trees, which happens to hold in their language as it does in ours.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
