shut
Meanings
verb
- To close, in various senses.
- To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
- To make or become unreceptive.
- To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
- To put out of use or operation.
- To cease operation or cease to be available.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
- To isolate, to close off from the world.
- To preclude, exclude.
- simple past and past participle of shut
adj
- Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
- Physically sealed, obstructed, folded together, etc.
- Not available for use or operation.
- Not operating or conducting trade; not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
- Not receptive.
- Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- Synonym of close.
- Archaic form of shot (“discharged, cleared, rid of something”).
noun
- The act or time of shutting; close.
- A door or cover; a shutter.
- The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
noun
- A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
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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”).
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