CLOSE-UP

Date "CLOSE-UP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Fine Arts

Slang

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

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Crosswords: CLOSE-UP

I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille (Mrs. Doubtfire; writing credit: Randi Mayem Singer)

Um Dia na Vida Close-Up (1974)

Extreme Close-Up (1973)

Close-Up (1948)

The Final Close-Up (1919)

Close-Up (2002)

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

Books

• Self-Working Close-Up Card Magic: 53 Foolproof Tricks (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Nutrition Close-up (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Close-Up on Chemistry: Chemical Demonstrations (Book and VHS Edition) (reference)

• A Porsche 356 Close-up (inspection video) (reference)

• Kilauea: Close-Up of an Active Volcano (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Tiffen 43mm Close-Up Lens Set (02006) (reference)

• Watchport/v USB Camera Lenspack 3MM Wide 8MM Close-up 12MM Tele (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

The image shows a close-up of a patient's body prior to radiation treatment. A lighted scale is projected onto the body to exactly line up the treatment with the tumor site. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A technician gives an older woman a mammogram. There are 6 shots in the series. 1) technician and machine, medium shot. 2) technician and machine, long shot. 3) compressed breast close-up. 4) woman preparing for exam next to machine with technician in background adjusting controls. 5) technician and woman at machine. 6) technician and woman at machine, reverse angle. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Close-up photograph of smallpox lesions seen on the deltoid area of the arm during the 4th day of the rash. Credit: CDC.

CDC dedication crowd close-up from SE side. The ceremony marked the new location of the CDC on Clifton Road in Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: CDC.

Skylab 3 Close-Up. Credit: NASA.

Close-up of Gyroscope for Goddard's Rocket. Credit: NASA.

A close-up picture of Ida's moon, Dactyl. Credit: NASA.

Four close-up views of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/4039). Credit: NASA.

Close-up of oiled Spartina - a cordgrass common in coastal marshes. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A close-up of the Sawyer Glacier. Credit: America's Coastlines.

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

Health

After the examination, close-up vision may remain blurred for several hours. (references)

Some people with a cataract find that their close-up vision suddenly improves, but this is temporary. (references)

Business

The reasons were the discharge of wastewater during the 1997 emergency close-up of the water treatment facilities and poor performance of the local biological treatment plant. (references)

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

Afrikaans

voorgrond (fore, foreground). (various references)

Chinese 

逼視 (look at from close-up, watch intently). (various references)

Danish

nærbillede (close up). (various references)

Dutch

voorgrond (fore, foreground). (various references)

Esperanto

unua plano. (various references)

Finnish

lähikuva (approximates, close shot). (various references)

French

plan serré (close up), gros plan (close up, close-up view), GP (close up). (various references)

German

Nahaufnahme (close up view), Grossaufnahme (close up, close-up view). (various references)

Greek 

κοντινό πλάνο (close up), γκρο πλαν (close up). (various references)

Hungarian

premier plan (closeup), közelkép (close up, closeup), közeli felvétel (closeup). (various references)

Italian

primo piano (close up, first floor, foreground). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

クレブス回路 (checkroom, cleanser, cleansing cream, cleansing lotion, cleric, cloakroom, clone, close, closed, closed stance, closed system, closet, closure, crawl, Kraepelin, Krebs cycle, Kremlin, Kremlinology). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

クローズアップ . (various references)

Manx

faggys-yalloo. (various references)

Pig Latin

ose-upclay.(various references)

Portuguese

cinema (cine, cinema, movie theater, movie theatre, movies, moving pictures, picture show, playhouse), vista de perto, grande plano (close up), fotografia tirada de perto. (various references)

Russian 

наплыв крупным планом. (various references)

Spanish

primer plano (close up, forefront, foreground), aproximación (approach, approximation, forthcoming, rapprochement). (various references)

Thai

ภาพที่ถ่ายใกล้. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cận cảnh. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: closeup, couples.

-1 letter: coleus, coupes, couple, cupels, loupes, oscule.

-2 letters: clops, close, clues, coles, copes, copse, coupe, coups, cupel, locus, lopes, loupe, loups, louse, luces, ousel, poles, puces, pules, pulse, scope, sculp, slope, socle.

-3 letters: cels, ceps, clop, clue, cole, cols, cope, cops, coup, cues, cups, cusp, ecus, epos, lope, lops, lose, loup, luce, lues, oles.

+1 letter: closeups, couplers, couplets, octuples, opuscule, scopulae.

+2 letters: clupeoids, copulates, corpuscle, decouples, octuplets, opercules, opulences, opuscules, populaces, poultices, recouples, supercoil, supercool, uncouples.

+3 letters: acephalous, cloudscape, compulsive, corpuscles, leucoplast, operculars, operculums, opulencies, peculators, pediculous, pelycosaur, pleustonic, pocketfuls, pocketsful, preciously, preclusion, pronucleus, pseudocoel, speciously, speculator, superblock, supercoils, supercools, uncouplers.

+4 letters: cantaloupes, cloudscapes, colporteurs, compulsives, copublished, copublisher, copublishes, copulatives, corpulences, couplements, eucalyptols, fluoroscope, groupuscule, leucoplasts, nucleoplasm, patchoulies, peculations, pediculoses, pediculosis, pelycosaurs, preclusions, procedurals, pseudocoels, speculation, speculators, superblocks, supercoiled, supercooled, superschool.