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close-up
[ klohs-uhp ]
noun
- a photograph taken at close range or with a long focal-length lens, on a relatively large scale.
- Also called close shot. Movies, Television. a camera shot taken at a very short distance from the subject, to permit a close and detailed view of an object or action. Compare long shot ( def 3 ), medium shot.
- an intimate view or presentation of anything.
adjective
- of or resembling a close-up.
- intimate or detailed; close-in.
close-up
/ ˈəʊˌʌ /
noun
- a photograph or film or television shot taken at close range
- a detailed or intimate view or examination
a close-up of modern society
verb
- to shut entirely
- intr to draw together
the ranks closed up
- intr (of wounds) to heal completely
Word History and Origins
Origin of close-up1
Idioms and Phrases
Also, close up shop . Stop doing business, temporarily or permanently; also, stop working. For example, The bank is closing up all its overseas branches , or That's enough work for one day—I'm closing up shop and going home . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
As Tommy’s eyes well up and he runs a wet cloth against Joel’s skin, we get a close-up of Joel’s arm and the old, broken military watch on his wrist.
But the writers are correct to skip past skirmishes that don’t mean much to grant a close-up to the small moments that do.
Having this close-up view when they were younger “demystified the job of being a writer,” says Dan Gilroy.
Harrison: Chris and I learned so much about creating stage illusions by performing close-up magic because you get to see the psychology of magic from an audience’s perspective by doing it one-on-one with people hundreds of times a day.
So there’s a whole set of skills that close-up magicians and stage magicians use that we’ve run with, and we give the cast an introduction to magic that covers a lot of those things…
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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