CLOSER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does closer mean? 

• CLOSER (noun)
  The noun CLOSER has 2 senses:

1. a person who closes something

2. (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game

  Familiarity information: CLOSER used as a noun is rare.

• CLOSER (adverb)
  The adverb CLOSER has 1 sense:

1. (comparative of 'near' or 'close') within a shorter distance

  Familiarity information: CLOSER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOSER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who closes something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

whoever is the closer has to turn out the lights and lock up

Hypernyms ("closer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

close (cease to operate or cause to cease operating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

closer; finisher

Hypernyms ("closer" is a kind of...):

fireman; relief pitcher; reliever (a pitcher who does not start the game)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closer"):

slammer (a person who closes things violently)

• CLOSER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(comparative of 'near' or 'close') within a shorter distance

Synonyms:

closer; nearer; nigher

Context example:

getting nearer to the true explanation

Domain usage:

comparative; comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb)

 Context examples 

I didn’t move that year, but my daughter give birth to a little baby boy that pulled the entire family closer together.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We shall meet you here later, Hopkins, and see if we can come to closer quarters with the gentleman who has paid this visit in the night.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the sounds died down, and the rocks no longer thundered past, and he saw his tribespeople creeping close and closer, spearing the wounded as they came.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I lowered the gun and stepped to the corner of the cabin, primarily to relieve the tension on my nerves and to make a new start, and incidentally to be closer.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It brought Ruth closer to him, made her possible.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And on the gentlemen's approaching, one of the girls moved closer to her than ever, and said, in a whisper: The men shan't come and part us, I am determined.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This system places the electrodes closer to the heart to achieve better orthogonality and a homogeneous lead field.

(Lead Placement McFee-Parungao, NCI Thesaurus)

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Inside or closer to the inside of the body or object.

(Inner, NCI Thesaurus)