At Close Range

Definition: At Close Range

At Close Range

Adverb

1. Very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: At Close Range

Crosswords: At Close Range

Lithograph by Closson Blake, after a painting by W.F. Halsall, depicting the two ironclads engaging at close range. Credit: NAVY.

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

Health

This complicated arrangement assures that T cells act only on precise targets and at close range. (references)

One-time exposure, such as the sound of a gun firing at close range, can harm your ears permanently. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mexico

On February 19, Jose Luis Ortega Mata, editor of the weekly Semanario de Ojinaga based in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, was shot twice in the head at close range with a .22 caliber firearm. (references)

Human Rights

Macedonia

A powder burn on Bairami's head indicated that he had been shot at close range. (references)

Brazil

During the police search, Thomas was wounded fatally when he was shot from behind at close range. (references)

Travel

Netherlands

Newcomers may find driving in town a little disconcerting because of the many cyclists who often make unexpected turns or must be passed at close range. (references)

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

German

auf nahe Entfernung. (various references)

Hungarian

közelről (at short range, nearly). (various references)

Pig Latin

atay oseclay angeray

Spanish

de cerca (nearly). (various references)

Ukrainian

близько (about, anigh, around, bain, close, closely, familiarly, hard upon, near, near at hand, nearly, nigh, short, something like, somewhere, thereabout, thereabouts). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: catalogers, rectangles, tolerances.

-3 letters: ancestral, carageens, carotenes, cataloger, coeternal, corelates, electrons, elongates, escalator, galactose, lacerates, octangles, rectangle, relocates, sloganeer, tolerance.

-4 letters: acerolas, acetones, acreages, acrogens, aerogels, agrestal, analects, ancestor, areolate, argental, arsenate, asternal, carageen, carnages, carotene, cartages, cataloes, catalogs, caterans, centares, centrals, cesarean, clangers, clangors, cleaners, cleanest, cleanser, clearest, coagents, cognates, congeals, congrats.