Shut
of Shut
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
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
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
Charlie Sheen
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
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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