Close vs Stuffed - What's the difference?
close | stuffed | Synonyms |
(label) To remove a gap.
# To obstruct (an opening).
# To move so that an opening is closed.
#* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
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#*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
# To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
# To grapple; to engage in close combat.
#* (1796-1859)
(label) To finish, to terminate.
# To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# To come to an end.
# (label) To make a sale.
# 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.
* Bible, (w) ii. 5
* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
(label) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
An end or conclusion.
* Macaulay
The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
* Chapman
A grapple in wrestling.
(music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
* Dryden
(music) A double bar marking the end.
Closed, shut.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew chapter 8:
* Dryden
Narrow; confined.
* Charles Dickens
At a little distance; near.
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# (legal) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
* Francis Bacon
Hot, humid, with no wind.
(linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
* Bible, 1 Chron. xii. 1
* Spenser
Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
Short.
(archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
* John Locke
(archaic) Concise; to the point.
* Dryden
(dated) Difficult to obtain.
(dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
* Hawthorne
Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
An enclosed field.
(British) A street that ends in a dead end.
(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
A cathedral close.
* Macaulay
(legal) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.
(stuff)
Full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
*1997 , Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds , p.109:
*:Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.
*2008 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side ,
*:She didn?t forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase.
*2009 , Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies , 2nd Edition,
*:The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.
*2009 , David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet , iUniverse,
*:Creating a poetic or extraordinary belief is the simple act of intensifying the mood or atmosphere of your belief and making it more stuffed with the ability or power to come real.
(lb) Full after eating.
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*2002 , Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women?s Recovery from Bulimia ,
*:Beth says: “I never knew when I was full ?cause I always felt like I didn?t know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving.”
*2009 , Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter ,
*:“See, huge meal.” Replied Farra. / “Still stuffed'.” / “Yes, quite ' stuffed .”
*2009 , Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal ,
*:Allhadi gave a contented yawn and said: / “I have eaten till I am really stuffed / I am full and bloated and so puffed / I am bursting, I am telling you true / I couldn?t eat more if you begged me to.”
Very tired.
*2011 , Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human , Xlibris,
*:‘Well, you talked me into it,’ said Cornelius. ‘I feel really stuffed . I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.’
Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
*1998 , , The Night is for Hunting , 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
*:If the suspension was stuffed' already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really ' stuffed by the time we?d gone a kilometre along the railway.
*2002 , Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings ,
*:But if you don?t play ball in life, if you don?t go for it with a sincere ‘Go, girrrrl’ rugby-tackle attitude, you?re really stuffed .
Close is a synonym of stuffed.
As verbs the difference between close and stuffed
is that close is (label) to remove a gap while stuffed is (stuff).As adjectives the difference between close and stuffed
is that close is closed, shut while stuffed is full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).As a noun close
is an end or conclusion or close can be an enclosed field.close
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(clos)- What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
- They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest.
- One frugal supper did our studies close .
- The depth closed me round about.
- But now Thou dost Thyself immure and close / In some one corner of a feeble heart; / Where yet both Sinne and Satan, Thy old foes, / Do pinch and straiten Thee, and use much art / To gain Thy thirds' and little part.
Synonyms
* close off, close up, cover, shut, shut off * shut * (put an end to) end, finish, terminate, wind up, close down * narrow * (terminate a computer program) close out, exitAntonyms
* open * open * (put an end to) begin, commence, initiate, start * extend, widen * (terminate a computer program) open, startDerived terms
* autoclosing * case closed * close down * close in * close off * close one's eyes * close out * close ranks * close the door on * close the face * close up *Noun
(en noun)- We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close .
- His long and troubled life was drawing to a close .
- The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.
- (Francis Bacon)
- At every close she made, the attending throng / Replied, and bore the burden of the song.
Synonyms
* (end) end, finaleAntonyms
* (end) beginning, startEtymology 2
From (etyl) clos, from (etyl) clausum, participle of (m).Adjective
(er)- There is nothinge so close , that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.
- From a close bower this dainty music flowed.
- a close''' alley; '''close quarters
- a close prison
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close -packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close . This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
- If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close , and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.
- a close prisoner
- He yet kept himself close because of Saul.
- her close intent
- a close contest
- to cut grass or hair close
- The golden globe being put into a press, the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.
- close reasoning
- Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.
- Money is close .
- (Bartlett)
- a crusty old fellow, as close as a vice
- a close translation
- (John Locke)
- The patient was kept under close observation.
Synonyms
* (at a little distance) close by, near, nearby * (intimate) intimate * muggy, oppressive * (articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate) highAntonyms
* (at a little distance) distant, far, far away, far off, remote * (intimate) aloof, cool, distant * (articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate) openDerived terms
* close call * closely * closeness * close shave * close-up * thiscloseNoun
(en noun)- closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.
- (Bouvier)
Synonyms
* (street) cul-de-sacStatistics
*stuffed
English
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