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AT CLOSE QUARTERS

Synonyms within Context: AT CLOSE QUARTERS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nearness

Within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in the environs; Noun: at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a stone's throw; Noun: in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition; (touching); yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AT CLOSE QUARTERS

English words defined with "AT CLOSE QUARTERS": closehand to hand, hand-to-handin-fightingscuffletussle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "AT CLOSE QUARTERS": Carronades. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: AT CLOSE QUARTERS

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Taiwan is home to hundreds of thousands of registered factories, 7 million pigs, and 1.4 million vehicles in a total area of 36,000 km2. High industrial density (2.77 factories per km2) puts residential and industrial development at close quarters, and demand for higher living standards by Taiwan's 23 million citizens has increased pressure for improved environmental performance by local industry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AT CLOSE QUARTERS

Language Translations for "AT CLOSE QUARTERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

në afërsi të drejtpërdrejtë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بأمانة (closely, faithfully, sincerely, square). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

лице в лице. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zblízka. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

läheltä (from close range, from near by). (various references)

   

French

  

très proche de l'ennemis. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פ ים אל פ ים (face to face, vis a vis). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

közvetlen közelről, közvetlen közel (near), közel egymáshoz, egészen közelről, egészen közel (close by, hard by, no distance at all). (various references)

   

Manx

  

boyn rish boyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atay oseclay artersquay

   

Romanian

  

corp la corp. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лицом к лицу (face to face). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u neposrednom susedstvu (quarters: at close quarters), u komšiluku (quarters: at close quarters). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

muy de cerca, muy cerca (close by). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yan yana (abreast, adjoining, alongside, cheek by jowl, side by side), hemen hemen (about, all but, almost, barely, much, near, nearly, next door to, next to, nigh, practically, pretty much, proximate, scarcely, well nigh), çok yakın (close by, hard by, well nigh). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

в безпосередній близькості. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AT CLOSE QUARTERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-o-q-r-r-s-s-t-t-u"

-4 letters: ultrasecret.

-5 letters: altercates, carrousels, castrators, clatterers, correlates, cotrustees, cotterless, craterlets, croquettes, escalators, lacquerers, rearousals, rectorates, relacquers, reluctates, requestors, resolutest, saturators, scatterers, streetcars, testaceous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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