Close
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Closed, shut. At a little distance; near. Intimate; well-loved. hot, humid, with no wind.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To obstruct (an opening). To move so that an opening is closed. To put an end to. To make (e.g. a gap) smaller. To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon. To make a sale. To make the final outs, usually three, of a game. To terminate a computer program or a window or file thereof.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An end of something. An enclosed field. A street that ends in a dead end. A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor. A cathedral close.
Example sentence: Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
Ending
Part of speech: phraseme
Definition:
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To come to an end
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A termination or conclusion.The last part of something.The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").
Example sentence: If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.