close-up
or close·up
a photograph taken at close range or with a long focal-length lens, on a relatively large scale.
Also called close shot. Movies, Television. a camera shot taken at a very short distance from the subject, to permit a close and detailed view of an object or action.: Compare long shot (def. 3), medium shot.
an intimate view or presentation of anything.
of or resembling a close-up.
intimate or detailed; close-in.
Origin of close-up
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How to use close-up in a sentence
It remains unclear whether Qatari authorities intervened or the organizers decided to close up shop because of media attention.
Reports began trickling out in the press this week that GOProud had decided to close up shop.
Inside the Implosion of GOProud, the Right’s Most Notorious Pro-Gay Group | Tim Mak | June 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe video starts with a close up of Avril, who chants a couple of Japanese phrases with wide, black-lined badger eyes.
Avril Lavigne’s Dumb ‘Hello Kitty’ Video Is Rife with Cultural Appropriation | Amy Zimmerman | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor a man who just filmed a close up of a real-life horror film, he seems virtually emotionless.
Bad to the Drone: Amateur Flyer Appears at Harlem Wreckage | Abby Haglage | March 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJacobs leaked a photo to Instagram, which featued a shadowed close-up of Lange's gorgeous face.
Versace Sells Minority Stake; Jessica Lange Fronts Marc Jacobs Beauty Campaign | The Fashion Beast Team | February 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
We stumbled along, close up, for the thick-piled clouds still hung their light-obscuring banners over the sky.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairYou could not see the water till you got close up, and at a distance only the rows of gas jets were apparent.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayThe inner tube has an internal flanch, to which a flat circular plate is screwed to close up the tube.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickThe revelation was made soon after tea, when she sidled close up to him as they paced slowly along the sea-front in the dusk.
The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories | Algernon BlackwoodWhen they saw the Federals had halted, they also halted, taking time to close up, and that was just what Lawrence wanted.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. Dunn
British Dictionary definitions for close-up
/ (ˈkləʊsˌʌp) /
a photograph or film or television shot taken at close range
a detailed or intimate view or examination: a close-up of modern society
to shut entirely
(intr) to draw together: the ranks closed up
(intr) (of wounds) to heal completely
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with close-up
Also, close up shop. Stop doing business, temporarily or permanently; also, stop working. For example, The bank is closing up all its overseas branches, or That's enough work for one day—I'm closing up shop and going home. [Late 1500s]
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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