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)

1. 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)

2. (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/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kluˈzap/

Noun

close-up m (plural close-ups)

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

   Synonym: close