close relation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcloseandrelation
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close
adjective
uk/kləʊs/us/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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relation
noun
uk/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/us/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
the way in which two people or groups of people feel and behave towards ...
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(Definition ofcloseandrelationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofclose relation
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Both atrioventricular valves are incloserelationwith both infiindibulums.
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There is acloserelationwith assessment of technology.
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Now, there is acloserelationbetween attention and consciousness.
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Thiscloserelationto music has also been efficiently exploited in advertising.
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Nevertheless, thecloserelationwith the geodesic flow allows us to prove the following.
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He denies thecloserelationbetween the licensing of pro in one language and its inflexional richness.
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The result with the blackbody radiators showed acloserelationbetween the mired scale and the group parameter.
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They are numerically easy to implement, and they guarantee acloserelationbetween the synthesis parameters and the resulting sound.
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Thiscloserelationto practical reasoning is significant since it is practical reasoning that lies at the heart of responsibility.
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It is a prettycloserelation.
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It is a verycloserelationto common sense.
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There was acloserelationbetween the two.
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The torque is generally high, about 10 times bigger than its rolling resistance, and has acloserelationwith the robot's load.
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There is acloserelationbetween the two definitions and it remains to be seen if they are actually the same notion.
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This view was underpinned by thecloserelationbetween classical rhetoric and the civic business of the foundation and conservation of the commonwealth.
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Consequently, the evidence of a strong family resemblance in the face of the central, uncrowned woman, might indicate a royal sister or acloserelation.
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The potentiallycloserelationbetween self-regulation and coping suggests that the popular conceptual separation of problemfocused and emotion-focused coping may be somewhat of an illusion.
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As shown in the previous section, both vocabulary and grammar are somewhat delayed in two-year-old twins, but there is still acloserelationbetween them.
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Thecloserelationbetween finite domains of hysteresis, on one hand, and incorporation of dissipation in the wavemaker boundary condition, on the other hand, is thus established.
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It certainly interacts with it and has acloserelationto it.
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There is obviously acloserelationbetween the demand for houses and the price.
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This is an agreement establishing acloserelationin many ways.
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It cannot be denied that rayon bears a verycloserelationto cotton.
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