Definition of "shut"

shut¹

/ʃʌt/

verb
third-person singular simple present shuts, present participle shutting, simple past shut, past participle shut or (obsolete, dialectal) shutten
1. (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
2. (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
3. (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close (a business) temporarily.
4. (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area.
5. (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
  Quotations
  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 footWho keeps the keys of all the creeds,⁠I wander, often falling lame, […]
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XXIII, page 39
6. (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
7. (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
  Quotations
  shut from every shore
  1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
adjective
not comparable
1. Closed; not open.
2. (linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close
  Quotations
  Whenever a syllable is formed with a long, that is an open vowel, they account the syllable long; and whenever formed with a short, that is a shut vowel, they reckon it short.
  1810, Benjamin Humphrey Smart, A practical grammar of English pronunciation, page 344
noun
plural shuts
1. The act or time of shutting; close.
  Quotations
  Just then returnd at ſhut of Evening Flours.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
2. A door or cover; a shutter.
3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

shut²

/ʃʌt/

noun
plural shuts
1. (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.

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