Definition of Shut

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Definition of Shut

Shut

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

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

To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

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.

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

Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.

Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.

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.

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

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

A door or cover; a shutter.

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

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Shut Quotations

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador Dali

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Lauren Bacall

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw

Shut Translations

shut in Afrikaans is toe, toemaak
shut in Danish is lukket, lukke
shut in Dutch is dichtmaken, sluiten, dichtdoen
shut in Finnish is sulkea
shut in French is fermer
shut in Italian is chiudere
shut in Portuguese is fechar, fechado
shut in Spanish is cerrar, cerrado

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