Shut

[ʃʌt]

Definition

(adj.) not open; 'the door slammed shut' .

Checked by Barlow--From WordNet

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.

Inputed by Frieda

Examples

Checker: Shari

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