close-up

See also: close up and closeup

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkləʊsʌp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Hyphenation: close-up

Adjective

close-up (not comparable)

In near proximity.
- 1969 March 21, “Science: Rousing End to a Relaxed Flight”, in Time:
  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.

Related terms

close-up lens

Noun

close-up (plural close-ups)

(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.

Related terms

closeup (noun)

Translations

photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale

Chinese:
Mandarin: 特寫／特写 (zh) (tèxiě)
Danish: nærbillede n
Esperanto: foto de proksima distanco
Finnish: lähikuva (fi)
French: gros plan (fr), plan rapproché (fr) m
German: Nahaufnahme f
Icelandic: nærmynd f
Italian: primo piano m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nærbilde n

Nynorsk: nærbilde n, nærbilete n
Persian: کلوزآپ (kloz-âp)
Portuguese: close-up m, close (pt) m
Spanish: primer plano m

Further reading

close-up on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

couples, culpeos, opuscle, up close, upclose

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English close-up.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kloˈza.pi/, /kloˈzap/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kloˈzap/, /kloˈza.pi/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kluˈzap/

Noun

close-up m (plural close-ups)

(photography) close-up (photography in which the subject is shown at a large scale)
Synonym: close

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