Sekirov Dictionary

shut

/ʃʌt/

verb 12
adjective 7
noun 4
forms 7
phrases 14

verb12

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to close something, such as a door or a box, so that nothing can go in or out
- Please shut the door.
- The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.
To close, in various senses.
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(UK) To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
- They generally shut the museum each day at 6 pm.
- The supermarket shuts at eight o'clock.
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To put out of use or operation.
- We are shutting the phone lines at 9 pm.
- They shut the airport because of a bomb scare.
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To cease operation or cease to be available.
- Phone lines will shut in ten minutes.
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To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- Shut the file when you have finished reading data.
- This app has a bug: when you try to sort a large spreadsheet, it shuts.
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To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
- I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.
To isolate, to close off from the world.
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To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- He's just gone and shut his finger in the door!
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To make or become unreceptive.
- He has shut his mind to new ideas.
To preclude, exclude.
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(informal) Synonym of shut up (“to stop talking or arguing”).
- DD, what an idiot, please shut and quit distracting me with your drivel. — 1998

adjective7

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Physically sealed, obstructed, folded together, etc.
- A shut door barred our way into the house.
- The door banged shut with a breeze.
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Not available for use or operation.
- Phone lines are now shut.
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Not operating or conducting trade; not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
- Banks are shut on bank holidays.
- The museum is shut for the Christmas holidays.
Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
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Not receptive.
- He mind is shut to new ideas.
Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
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Synonym of close.
- Whenever a syllable is formed with a long, that is an open vowel, they account the syllable long; and whenever formed with a short, that is a shut vowel, they reckon it short. — 1810

noun4

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The act or time of shutting; close.
- Just then returnd at shut of Evening Flours. — 1667
(dialect, UK) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
A door or cover; a shutter.
The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

forms

shutted · shuttedst · shutten · shutting · shuts · shutteth · shuttest

Phrases with shut

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