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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: AT CLOSE QUARTERS |
| English words defined with "AT CLOSE QUARTERS": close ♦ hand to hand, hand-to-hand ♦ in-fighting ♦ scuffle ♦ tussle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AT CLOSE QUARTERS": Carronades. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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 corp la corp. (various references) лицом к лицу (face to face). (various references) u neposrednom susedstvu (quarters: at close quarters), u komšiluku (quarters: at close quarters). (various references) muy de cerca, muy cerca (close by). (various references) 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) в безпосередній близькості. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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