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▸ adjective:  Physically close.
▸ adjective:  Close in time.
▸ adjective:  Closely connected or related.
▸ adjective:  Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
▸ adjective:  Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
▸ adjective:  So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
▸ adjective:  Approximate, almost.
▸ adjective:  (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left).
▸ adjective:  (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.
▸ adjective:  (now rare) Stingy; parsimonious.
▸ adjective:  (programming, not comparable) Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
▸ adverb:  At or towards a position close in space or time.
▸ adverb:  Nearly; almost.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To come closer to; to approach.
▸ noun:  The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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