shut
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English schitten, schetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”). The Modern English word was originally a dialect form; the Old English word would have normally merged with shit.
Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).
Inflected forms:
form: shuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shut
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shut
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shutten
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
obsolete
participle
past
form: shuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To close, in various senses.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Please shut the door.
The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.
They shut the road for the festival.
If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.
gloss: To close, in various senses.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He has shut his mind to new ideas.
gloss: To close, in various senses.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
transitive
examples: They generally shut the museum each day at 6 pm.
The supermarket shuts at eight o'clock.
Lots of shops in the town centre have shut because of the recession.
gloss: To close, in various senses.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: We are shutting the phone lines at 9 pm.
They shut the airport because of a bomb scare.
gloss: To close, in various senses.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Phone lines will shut in ten minutes.
gloss: To close, in various senses.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
transitive
examples: Shut the file when you have finished reading data.
This app has a bug: when you try to sort a large spreadsheet, it shuts.
gloss: To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He's just gone and shut his finger in the door!
gloss: To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.
gloss: To isolate, to close off from the world.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut,
⁠Or breaking into song by fits;
⁠Alone, alone, to where he sits,
The Shadow cloak’d from head to foot
Who keeps the keys of all the creeds,
⁠I wander, often falling lame, […]
gloss: To preclude, exclude.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: shut from every shore
gloss: The act or time of shutting; close.
pos: noun
examples: the shut of a door
Just then returnd at ſhut of Evening Flours.
gloss: A door or cover; a shutter.
pos: noun
gloss: The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
pos: noun
Derived words: shut away
shut down
shut in
shut of
shut off
shut out
shut up
beshut
forshut
outshut
reshut
shutdown
shut-down
shut-eye
shut-in
shutout
shut-out
shuttabl
shutter
shuttle
upshut
cut-and-shut
open-and-shut
shut it
shut my mouth
shut one's eyes
shut one's eyes and think of England
shut one's eyes to
shut one's face
shut one's gob
shut one's head
shut one's mouth
shut one's trap
shut the box
shut the door
shut the door on
shut the fridge
shut the front door
shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
shut up shop
shut your face
shut your mouth
shut your trap
cold shut
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: sluit
lang: Afrikaans
word: toemaak
lang: Albanian
word: mbyll
lang: Arabic
word: أَغْلَقَ
roman: ʔaḡlaqa
lang: Arabic
word: قفل
roman: qafal
lang: Armenian
word: փակել
roman: pʻakel
lang: Assamese
word: জপোৱা
roman: zopüa
lang: Assamese
word: মুদা
roman: muda
lang: Assamese
word: বন্ধ কৰা
roman: bondho kora
lang: Asturian
word: zarrar
lang: Asturian
word: cerrar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qapamaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bağlamaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: örtmək
lang: Basque
word: itxi
lang: Belarusian
word: зачыня́ць
roman: začynjácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: зачыні́ць
roman: začynícʹ
lang: Bengali
word: বন্ধ করা
roman: bondho kora
lang: Bulgarian
word: затва́рям
roman: zatvárjam
lang: Burmese
word: ပိတ်
roman: pit
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏍᏚᎲᏍᎦ
roman: asduhvsga
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 關 /关
roman: gwaan¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 關 /关
roman: guān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 閉 /闭
roman: bì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 關閉 /关闭
roman: guānbì
lang: Czech
word: zavřít
lang: Dalmatian
word: seruar
lang: Danish
word: lukke
lang: Dutch
word: sluiten
lang: Dutch
word: dichtklappen
lang: Esperanto
word: fermi
lang: Estonian
word: sulgema
lang: Finnish
word: sulkea
lang: French
word: fermer
lang: Friulian
word: sierâ
lang: Galician
word: pechar
lang: Georgian
word: დახურვა
roman: daxurva
lang: German
word: schließen
lang: German
word: zumachen
lang: Greek
word: κλείνω
roman: kleíno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κλείω
roman: kleíō
lang: Haitian Creole
word: fèmen
lang: Hebrew
word: סָגַר
roman: sagár
lang: Hindi
word: बंद करना
roman: band karnā
lang: Hungarian
word: becsuk
lang: Icelandic
word: loka
lang: Indonesian
word: menutup
lang: Indonesian
word: menyumpal
lang: Indonesian
word: membungkam
lang: Irish
word: dún
lang: Irish
word: iaigh
lang: Italian
word: chiudere
lang: Italian
word: serrare
lang: Japanese
word: 閉める
roman: shimeru
lang: Japanese
word: 閉じる
roman: tojiru
lang: Kazakh
word: жабу
roman: jabu
lang: Khmer
word: បិទ
roman: bət
lang: Korean
word: 닫다
roman: datda
lang: Central Kurdish
word: داخستن
roman: daxistin
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: daxistin
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: daêxistin
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: girtin
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жабуу
roman: jabuu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бекитүү
roman: bekitüü
lang: Lao
word: ອັດ
roman: ʼat
lang: Latin
word: claudō
lang: Latvian
word: aizvērt
lang: Lithuanian
word: uždaryti
lang: Lombard
word: sarà
lang: Low German
word: sluten
lang: Low German
word: slüten
lang: Low German
word: tomaken
lang: Low German
word: tomoken
lang: Low German
word: dichtmaken
lang: Low German
word: dichtmoken
lang: Macedonian
word: за́твори
roman: zátvori
lang: Malay
word: menutup
lang: Malay
word: mengatup
lang: Malay
word: membungkam
lang: Maltese
word: għalaq
lang: Māori
word: kupi
lang: Māori
word: kōpani
lang: Māori
word: tō
lang: Māori
word: kamu
lang: Māori
word: whakaweto
lang: Māori
word: kati
lang: Māori
word: kiwa
lang: Māori
word: kapiti
lang: Middle English
word: schitten
lang: Mongolian
word: хаах
roman: xaax
lang: Nepali
word: बन्द गर्नु
roman: banda garnu
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stenge
lang: Old English
word: scyttan
lang: Persian
word: بستن
roman: bastan
lang: Polish
word: zamykać
lang: Polish
word: zamknąć
lang: Portuguese
word: fechar
lang: Romansh
word: serrar
lang: Romansh
word: sarar
lang: Russian
word: закрыва́ть
roman: zakryvátʹ
lang: Russian
word: закры́ть
roman: zakrýtʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dùin
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: затворити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zatvoriti
lang: Sicilian
word: chiùdiri
lang: Sinhalese
word: වහනවා
roman: wahanawā
lang: Slovak
word: zavrieť
lang: Slovene
word: zapreti
lang: Spanish
word: cerrar
lang: Swedish
word: stänga
lang: Tajik
word: бастан
roman: bastan
lang: Tajik
word: пӯшидан
roman: püšidan
lang: Telugu
word: మూయు
roman: mūyu
lang: Thai
word: งับ
roman: ngáp
lang: Thai
word: หุบ
roman: hùp
lang: Thai
word: ปิด
roman: bpìt
lang: Tok Pisin
word: pasim
lang: Turkish
word: kapatmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قاپامق
roman: kapamak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اورتمك
roman: örtmek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: یوممق
roman: yummak
lang: Turkmen
word: ýapmak
lang: Turkmen
word: örtmek
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎒𐎂𐎗
roman: sgr
lang: Ukrainian
word: зачиня́ти
roman: začynjáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: зачини́ти
roman: začynýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: закрива́ти
roman: zakryváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: закри́ти
roman: zakrýty
lang: Urdu
word: بند کرنا
roman: band karnā
lang: Uzbek
word: bekitmoq
lang: Uzbek
word: yopmoq
lang: Venetan
word: serar
lang: Venetan
word: sarar
lang: Vietnamese
word: đóng
lang: Welsh
word: cau
lang: Yiddish
word: שליסן
roman: shlisn
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאַרמאַכן
roman: farmakhn
lang: Arabic
word: اِنْغَلَقَ
roman: inḡalaqa
lang: Bulgarian
word: затварям се
roman: zatvarjam se
lang: Japanese
word: 閉まる
roman: shimaru
lang: Middle English
word: schitten