Definitions for shut
ʃʌtshut

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shut, unopen, closedadjective

   not open

   "the door slammed shut"

2. closed, shutverb

   used especially of mouth or eyes

   "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight"

3. close, shutverb

   move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

   "Close the door"; "shut the window"

4. close, shutverb

   become closed

   "The windows closed with a loud bang"

5. exclude, keep out, shut out, shutverb

   prevent from entering; shut out

   "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shutnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Close; act of shutting.

   I sought him round his palace, made enquiry
   Of all the slaves: but had for answer,
   That since the shut of evening none had seen him. Dryden.

   2. Small door or cover.

   The wind gun is charged by the forcible compression of air, the imprisoned air serving, by the help of little falls or shuts within, to stop the vents by which it was admitted. John Wilkins.

   In a very dark chamber, at a round hole, about one third part of an inch broad, made in the shut of a window, I placed a glass prism. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

   There were no shuts or stopples made for the animal’s ears, that any loud noise might awaken it. John Ray, Creation.

2. Shutparticipial adjective.

   Rid; clear; free.

   We must not pray in one breath to find a thief, and in the next to get shut of him. Roger L'Estrange.

3. To Shutverb

   preterite, I shut; part. passive, shut.

   Etymology: scittan , Saxon; schutten, Dutch.

   1. To close so as to prohibit ingress or regress; to make not open.

   Kings shall shut their mouths at him. Isaiah lii. 15.

   To a strong tower fled all the men and women, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top. Judges ix. 1.

   We see more exquisitely with one eye shut than with both open; for that the spirits visual unite more, and become stronger. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   She open’d, but to shut
   Excell’d her pow’r; the gates wide open stood. John Milton.

   2. To inclose; to confine.

   Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith, which should afterwards be revealed. Gal. iii.

   They went in male and female of all flesh; and the Lord shut him in. Gen. vii. 16.

   3. To prohibit; to bar.

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

   4. To exclude.

   On various seas, not only lost,
   But shut from ev’ry shoar, and barr’d from ev’ry coast. Dryd.

   5. To contract; not to keep expanded.

   Harden not thy heart,nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother. Deut. xv. 7.

   6. To Shut out. To exclude; to deny admission.

   Beat in the reed,
   The juster you drive it to shut off the rain. Thomas Tusser, Husb.

   In such a night
   To shut me out? pour on I will endure. William Shakespeare.

   Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. John Milton.

   He in his walls confin’d,
   Shut out the woes which he too well divin’d. John Dryden, Æn.

   Sometimes the mind fixes itself with so much earnestness on the contemplation of some objects, that it shuts out all other thoughts. John Locke.

   7. To Shut up. To close; to confine. Up is sometimes little more than emphatical

   Thou hast known my soul in adversities; and not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. Psalms xxxi. 8.

   Woe unto you scribes; for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men. Matth. xxiii. 13.

   Dangerous rocks shut up the passage. Walter Raleigh.

   What barbarous customs!
   Shut up a desart shore to drowning men,
   And drive us to the cruel seas. John Dryden, Æneid.

   A loss at sea, a fit of sickness, are trifles, when we consider whole families put to the sword, wretches shut up in dungeons. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

   His mother shut up half the rooms in the house, in which her husband or son had died. Addison.

   Lucullus, with a great fleet, shut up Mithridates in Pitany. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

   8. To Shut up. To conclude;

   The king’s a-bed,
   He is shut up in measureless content. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Altho’ he was patiently heard as he delivered his embassage; yet, in the shutting up of all, he received no more but an insolent answer. Richard Knolles, History of the Turks.

   To leave you blest, I would be more accurst,
   Than death can make me; for death ends our woes,
   And the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. Dryden.

   When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master, if he has acted better. Jeremy Collier, of Envy.

4. To Shutverb

   To be closed; to close itself.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shut

   To close something, often a door or window, firmly or completely. It can also refer to ceasing or stopping operations or activities.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shut

   of Shut

2. Shutverb

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

3. Shutverb

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

4. Shutverb

   to preclude; to exclude; to bar out

5. Shutverb

   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

6. Shutverb

   to close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard

7. Shutadjective

   closed or fastened; as, a shut door

8. Shutadjective

   rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person

9. Shutadjective

   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

10. Shutadjective

    cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are

11. Shutnoun

    the act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door

12. Shutnoun

    a door or cover; a shutter

13. Shutnoun

    the line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding

14. Etymology: [OE. shutten, schutten, shetten, schitten, AS. scyttan to shut or lock up (akin to D. schutten, G. schtzen to protect), properly, to fasten with a bolt or bar shot across, fr. AS. scetan to shoot. 159. See Shoot.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shut

   shut, 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. [A.S. scyttan, to bar—sceótan, to shoot.]

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'shut' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2722

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'shut' in Written Corpus Frequency: #770

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'shut' in Verbs Frequency: #395

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Anagrams for shut »

1. thus

2. tush

How to pronounce shut?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say shut in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shut in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shut in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of shut in a Sentence

1. Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrants, 1920:

   Shut up he explained.

2. Justin Spitzer:

   I have a pilot right now that was supposed to shoot and shut down right before( it started), all the pilots right now are being asked to write back-up episodes.

3. Proverb:

   Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

4. Tammy Duckworth:

   I was trying to operate on a schedule and trying to force a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old to operate on a senator's schedule, which is ridiculous when you put it that way, we've set up a little office for him when he's in there with the door shut, and I'm like,' how come you get to be in that office with the door shut ? And I am out here at the kitchen table and trying to homeschool and do this ?' So, you know, it's been rough.

5. Harry Reid:

   I have never seen debate shut down as aggressively as when Senator McConnell refused to allow Democratic senators to debate their own amendments for a single minute, i’m disappointed that so far, the Republican Senate has spent all of its time on a special-interest giveaway to help a Canadian oil company ship foreign oil overseas.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=shut
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=shut
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shut
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=shut
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shut