close observation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcloseandobservation
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close
adjective
uk/kləʊs/us/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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observation
noun
uk/ˌɒb.zəˈveɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɑːb.zɚˈveɪ.ʃən/
the act of observing something ...
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(Definition ofcloseandobservationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Suchcloseobservationwas motivated by a serious purpose since clothing was thought to offer a kind of window on individuals and societies alike.
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Catching an impression or an innovation needscloseobservationand tends to keep out of the reckoning its effect on an entire performance or production.
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Infection was confirmed in live snails bycloseobservationof developing parasites through the shell.
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Both of these papers offer an insight on classroom practice through theircloseobservation, analysis and questioning of the learning encountered there.
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Understanding of objects (whether artistic, archaeological, ethnographic or other) is always based on a capacity forcloseobservation.
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Closeobservationcan illuminate only a small subset of state institutions rather than the way these are integrated.
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Closeobservationof how the homilies subtly modify sources is his method.
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These combine home and classroom language, literacy, and play activities and teachers' mediation, support, andcloseobservationof students' changing levels of competence.
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Forcloseobservation, samples of infested fronds were collected each month from a reserve area, where parasites were being liberated.
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It is difficult to decide exactly when the therapy should be started and how to treat, socloseobservation will be necessary for prevention of sudden cardiac death.
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Closeobservationof these patients is essential.
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The health of the political constitution has been undercloseobservationin recent years, though pessimistic thoughts of its imminent demise and its replacement by a legal constitution seem misplaced.
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Beyond this period, diary data and ourcloseobservationsuggest that target-like competence is achieved between ages 4 and 5 in the case of wh-movement and relative clauses.
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Research will need to involvecloseobservationof children and adults in order to account for the relationship between their singing as outcome and their motivation to sing.
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This success depends not only on the "natural conditions," but also oncloseobservationand a readiness to respond, in short, on a capacity for true nurture.
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This is a matter which we have undercloseobservation.
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The situation will be kept undercloseobservation.
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I alluded to the broad impression left on my mind after three and a half years ofcloseobservation.
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It is essential that all pig keepers continue to keep their stock undercloseobservationand to report immediately any suspicion of disease.
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