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shut

[shuht]

verb, shut, shut⋅ting, adjective, noun

Use shut in a Sentence

–verb (used with object)

1.	to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.

2.	to close the doors of (often fol. by up): to shut up a shop for the night.

3.	to close (something) by bringing together or folding its parts: Shut your book. Shut the window!

4.	to confine; enclose: to shut a bird into a cage.

5.	to bar; exclude: They shut him from their circle.

6.	to cause (a business, factory, store, etc.) to end or suspend operations: He shut his store, sold his house, and moved away. We're shutting the office for two weeks in June.

7.	to bolt; bar.

–verb (used without object)

8.	to become shut or closed; close.

–adjective

9.	closed; fastened up: a shut door.

10.	Phonetics. checked.

–noun

11.	the act or time of shutting or closing.

12.	the line where two pieces of welded metal are united.

—Verb phrases

13.

shut down,

a.	to settle over so as to envelop or darken: The fog shut down rapidly.

b.	to close, esp. temporarily, as a factory; cease manufacturing or business operations.

c.	Also, shut down on or upon. Informal. to hinder; check; stop.

14.

shut in,

a.	to enclose.

b.	to confine, as from illness: She broke her leg in a fall and has been shut in for several weeks.

15.	shut of, Informal. free of; rid of: He wished he were shut of all his debts.

16.

shut off,

a.	to stop the passage of (water, traffic, electricity, etc.); close off.

b.	to isolate; separate: an outpost almost completely shut off from civilization.

17.

shut out,

a.	to keep from entering; exclude.

b.	to hide from view.

c.	to prevent (an opponent or opposing team) from scoring, as in a game of baseball.

18.

shut up,

a.	to imprison; confine.

b.	to close entirely.

c.	to stop talking; become silent: I thought the neighbors would never shut up and let me sleep.

d.	to stop (someone) from talking; silence.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME schutten, OE scyttan to bolt (a door); akin to shoot

Synonyms:
1. See close. 4. jail, imprison, cage. 5. prohibit.

Antonyms:
1. open.

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shut (shŭt)

v. shut, shut·ting, shuts

v. tr.

To move (a door or lid, for example) so as to block passage through an opening.
To block entrance to or exit from; close: shut a corridor.
To fasten with a lock, catch, or latch.
To confine in or as if in a closed space: shut them in a cage.
To exclude from or as if from a closed space: shut the cats out of the house.
To cause to stop operating: shut down a restaurant; a school that was shut for the vacation.

v. intr.

To move or become moved so as to block passage; close: a door that shuts by itself.
To stop operating, especially automatically: The electricity shuts off at midnight.

The act or time of shutting.
The line of connection between welded pieces of metal.
To stop the flow or passage of; cut off: shut off the hot water by closing a valve.
To close off; isolate: loners who shut themselves off from the community.
To cause (someone) to stop speaking; silence.
To stop speaking.

Phrasal Verb(s):
shut off

To stop the flow or passage of; cut off: shut off the hot water by closing a valve.
To close off; isolate: loners who shut themselves off from the community.

shut out Sports To prevent (an opponent) from scoring any runs or points.
shut up

To cause (someone) to stop speaking; silence.
To stop speaking.

Idiom(s):
shut (one's) eyes toTo refuse to consider or acknowledge: administrators who shut their eyes to pervasive corruption.

[Middle English shutten, from Old English scyttan; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]

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Shut

Shut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shut; p. pr. & vb. n. Shutting.] [OE. shutten, schutten, shetten, schitten, AS. scyttan to shut or lock up (akin to D. schutten, G. sch["u]tzen to protect), properly, to fasten with a bolt or bar shot across, fr. AS. sce['o]tan to shoot. [root]159. See Shoot.]

1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.

2. To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.

Shall that be shut to man which to the beast Is open? --Milton.

3. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. "Shut from every shore." --Dryden.

4. To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.

To shut in. (a) To inclose; to confine. "The Lord shut him in." --Cen. vii. 16. (b) To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts in another.

To shut off. (a) To exclude. (b) To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or gate.

To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof.

To shut together, to unite; to close, especially to close by welding.

To shut up. (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house. (b) To obstruct. "Dangerous rocks shut up the passage." --Sir W. Raleigh. (c) To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.

Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. --Gal. iii. 23. (d) To end; to terminate; to conclude.

When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. --Collier. (e) To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding. (f) To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or force.

Shut

Shut\, v. i. To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.

To shut up, to cease speaking. [Colloq.] --T. Hughes.

Shut

Shut\, a. 1. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.

2. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. [Now dialectical or local, Eng. & U.S.] --L'Estrange.

3. (Phon.) (a) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g. --H. Sweet. (b) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, [a^], [e^], [i^], [o^], [u^], always are.

Shut

Shut\, n. The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.

Just then returned at shut of evening flowers. --Milton.

2. A door or cover; a shutter. [Obs.] --Sir I. Newton.

3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.

Cold shut, the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working.

Language Translation for : shut

Spanish: cerrar,

German: schließen,

Japanese: 閉める

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shut

O.E. scyttan "to put in place so as to fasten a door or gate," from W.Gmc. *skutjanan (cf. O.Fris. schetta, M.Du. schutten "to shut, shut up, obstruct"), from P.Gmc. *skut- "project" (see shoot). Meaning "to close by folding or bringing together" is from c.1366. Sense of "to set (someone) free (from)" (c.1500) is obsolete except in dial. phrases such as to get shut of. Colloquial shut-eye for "sleep" is from 1899. To shut (one's) mouth "desist from speaking" is recorded from 1340. Shut up (v.) first recorded 1840. Shut-in "person confined from normal social intercourse" is from 1904. Shut out in baseball sense is from 1881 (v.), 1889 (n.).

shut

In addition to the idioms beginning with shut, also see close (shut) down; close (shut) one's eyes to; close (shut) the door on; keep one's mouth shut; open and shut case; put up or shut up.

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