Shut
Shut , transitive verb
[Old English shutten, schutten, shetten, schitten, Anglo-Saxon scyttan to shut or lock up (akin to Dutch schutten, German schutzen to protect), properly, to fasten with a bolt or bar shot across, from Anglo-Saxon sceótan to shoot. r159. See Shoot.]
1.
To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
2.
To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
Shall that be shut to man which to the beast
Is open?
3.
To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
Shut from every shore.
4.
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.
Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better.
Shut , intransitive verb
To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
Collocations (1)
To shut up , to cease speaking. [Colloquial] — T. Hughes
Shut , adjective
1.
Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
2.
Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. [Now dialectical or local, English & United States] — L'Estrange
3.
(a) (Phonetics) 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.
(b)
(Phonetics) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, a, e, i, o, u, always are. — H. Sweet
Shut , noun
The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.
2.
A door or cover; a shutter. [Obsolete] — Sir I. Newton
3.
The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
Collocations (1)
Cold shut , the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working.