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Look up: shut

  1. shut
    [adj] - not open
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. shut
    Said of a well on which the valves are closed Category: Management in the public and private sector • the pressure instantaneously registered at the moment of closure of a bore Category: Electrical engineering and energy • a lid intended to be shut down over the hotplate Category: Domestic economy • the head generated by a centrifugal pump at closed valve,at a g...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Shut
    Shut transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Shut ; present participle & verbal noun Shutting .] [ Middle English shutten , schutten , shetten , schitten , Anglo-Saxon scyttan to shut or lock up (akin to Dutch schutten , German schützen to protect), properly, to fasten with a b ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/96

  4. Shut
    Shut intransitive verb To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts ; it shuts hard. To shut up , to cease speaking. [ Colloq.] T. Hughes.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/96

  5. Shut
    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, Eng. & U.S.] L'Estrange. 3. (Phon.) (a) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p , t , k , ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/96

  6. Shut
    Shut noun The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door. « Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.» Milton. 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. Cold shut , the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liqu ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/96

  7. shut
    1. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door. ... 2. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. ... 3. <medicine> Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, <acr/, e, i, o, <urcr/, always are. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. shut
    adjective not open; `the door slammed shut`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. Shut
    `Shut` may refer to the following *The movement in which something is closed *Shut Up-A interjection used to get somebody to stop talking *Shutdown *Shut eye-refers to sleep *Shut Out *Shut-in
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut

  10. Shut
    • (n.) A door or cover; a shutter. • (imp. & p. p.) of Shut • (n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding. • (v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one`s eyes or mouth. • (a.) Closed or fastened; as, a shut door. • (n.) The act or time of shu...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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22 November 2009

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