A worldwide TV audience had a close-up view of the astronauts when they splashed down and as they emerged from the bobbing spaceship they call Gumdrop.1969 March 21, “Science: Rousing End to a Relaxed Flight”, in Time:
Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame.
All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.1950, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Sunset Blvd.:
Some flowers close up at night to stay protected from the cold.
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To move nearer together so that a gap is removed.
The crowd closed up and I couldn't get through to the train.
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To enclose, confine.
In Sanʿa the Jews have been separated from the Mohammedan population for the last three hundred years, and closed up in a Ghetto apart from the main town.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 369:
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Ambitransitive To shut a building or a business for a period of time.
We finally managed to close up the shop for the night at about 10 o'clock.
The car factory has closed up for the August holidays.
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Of a cut or other wound: To heal.
With stitches, the cut should close up in a week to ten days.
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To become less 'open' or communicative; to shrink back.