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AT CLOSE RANGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does at close range mean?
• AT CLOSE RANGE (adverb)
The adverb AT CLOSE RANGE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: AT CLOSE RANGE used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very close
Synonyms:
at close range; close up
Context example:
even firing at close range he missed
Context examples
Since it orbits the hot white dwarf at close range, making its way around it in just 10 days, the high-energy photons from the star are gradually blowing away the planet's atmosphere.
(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)
She was as frightened as I at the prospect, and we had reason to be gazing at close range at the gleaming teeth and dog-like mouths.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The planet orbits the hot white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun-like star, at close range, causing its atmosphere to be stripped away and form a disc of gas around the star.
(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)
She was a pretty sight, leaping and flying toward us, and evidently bound to pass at close range.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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