Shut
[ʃʌt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Shut
(v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
(v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
(v. t.) To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
(a.) Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
(a.) Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
(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.
(a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.
(n.) The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
(n.) A door or cover; a shutter.
(n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
Typist: Sharif
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Close, close up.[2]. Enclose, confine, imprison, shut up, coop up, lock up, close the door upon.
Typist: Ollie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Close, contract, confine, preclude, bar, fasten
ANT:Open, expand, unclose, unbar, unfasten
Editor: Nettie
Definition
v.t. to close as a door: to forbid entrance into: to contract close or bring together the parts of: to confine: to catch in the act of shutting something.—v.i. to close itself: to be closed.—pr.p. shut′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. shut.—p.adj. made fast closed: not resonant dull: formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely said of consonants as t d p: having the sound cut off sharply by a succeeding consonant as the i in pin &c.: freed from (with of).—ns. Shut′down a discontinuance of work in a factory &c.; Shut′ter one who or that which shuts: a close cover for a window or aperture: (phot.) a device for opening and closing a lens.—v.t. to cover with shutters.—n. Shut′ter-dam a form of movable dam having large gates opened and closed by a turbine.—Shut down to stop working; Shut in to enclose to confine: to settle down or fall (said e.g. of evening); Shut off to exclude; Shut out to prevent from entering; Shut up to close to confine: (coll.) to cease speaking to make one do so to make it impossible to answer.
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Examples
- But he had shut it down again, if that were so; and it looked as if it had not been raised. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She put up her spectacles, shut the Bible, and pushed her chair back from the table. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You have no right to shut your eyes to any of it nor any right to forget any of it nor to soften it nor to change it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Shut up, you, Pilar said without looking at him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Will you be so good as shut the door? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Tom said this with one eye shut up again, and looking over his glass knowingly, at his entertainer. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I must shut up my prize. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You have been shut up so long, it will do you no end of good, and I shall enjoy it, of all things. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Fernando asked, his eyes shut. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Shut the door on him, poor beast! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- These she put on, out on the staircase, first shutting and locking the door and taking away the key. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- So long as you goes now, said he, folding his arms and shutting his eyes with an oath, you may do wot you like! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was a folding-window to the carriage-head, but I never closed it, for it seemed like shutting out hope. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The railway, at this point, knowingly shutting a green eye and opening a red one, they had to run for it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, in repairing to his cellar and in opening and shutting those resounding doors, has to cross a little prison-like yard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Oh, I read no literature now, said Lydgate, shutting the book, and pushing it away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The motive of your shutting up the daughter in the asylum is now plain enough to me, but the manner of her escape is not quite so clear. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At last, he couldn't help shutting 'em, to ease 'em a minute; and the very moment he did so, he hears Chickweed a-roaring out, Here he is! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There was a lawn, and flower-beds, and at the boundary an iron fence shutting off the little field or park. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- After that, he retired for the night, shutting the outer door upon us with a bang. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You're a damned rogue, says the old gentleman, making a hideous grimace at the door as he shuts it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So saying, the trooper puts his lips to the old girl's tanned forehead, and the door shuts upon him in his cell. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We go whorehouse before it shuts. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But he shuts out the now chilled air, draws the window-curtain, goes to bed, and falls asleep. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And on his complaining that he is so troubled, it takes hold of the troublesome lady and shuts her up in prison under hard discipline. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If he be ever asked how, why, when, or wherefore, he shuts up one eye and shakes his head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The old girl promptly makes a sign of entreaty to him to say nothing; assenting with a nod, he suffers them to enter as he shuts the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Bucket rings, goes to the door, briefly whispers Mercury, shuts the door, and stands behind it with his arms folded. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With these words, spoken in an unusually high tone for him, the lawyer goes into his rooms and shuts the door with a thundering noise. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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