shut

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To close, in various senses.

   “Please shut the door.”

   “The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.”

   “They shut the road for the festival.”

   “If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.”

2. (intransitive, transitive)To close, in various senses.

   “He has shut his mind to new ideas.”

3. (British, intransitive, transitive)To close, in various senses.

   “They generally shut the museum each day at 6 pm.”

   “The supermarket shuts at eight o'clock.”

   “Lots of shops in the town centre have shut because of the recession.”

4. (intransitive, transitive)To close, in various senses.

   “We are shutting the phone lines at 9 pm.”

   “They shut the airport because of a bomb scare.”

5. (intransitive, transitive)To close, in various senses.

   “Phone lines will shut in ten minutes.”

6. (ergative, intransitive, transitive)To close, in various senses.

   “Shut the file when you have finished reading data.”

   “This app has a bug: when you try to sort a large spreadsheet, it shuts.”

7. (transitive)To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.

   “He's just gone and shut his finger in the door!”

8. (transitive)To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.

   “I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.”

9. (transitive)To isolate, to close off from the world.

   “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 foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, ⁠I wander, often falling lame, […]”

10. (transitive)To preclude, exclude.

    “shut from every shore”

11. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of shut

adj

1. (not-comparable)Closed, not open, in any of various senses.

   “A shut door barred our way into the house.”

   “The door banged shut with a breeze.”

   “Pleas keep your mouth shut while you are eating.”

   “A book lay shut on the table.”

   “I had to shut my eyes against the light.”

2. (not-comparable)Closed, not open, in any of various senses.

   “Phone lines are now shut.”

3. (not-comparable)Closed, not open, in any of various senses.

   “Banks are shut on bank holidays.”

   “The museum is shut for the Christmas holidays.”

4. (not-comparable)Closed, not open, in any of various senses.

   “He mind is shut to new ideas.”

5. (especially, not-comparable)Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
6. (not-comparable)Synonym of close.
7. (archaic, not-comparable)Synonym of close.

   “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.”

8. (alt-of, archaic, not-comparable)Archaic form of shot (“discharged, cleared, rid of something”).

   “When he asked her, she said, she thanked God he was dead, (the woman was glad to get shut of him) and said he died of an ague and fever.”

noun

1. The act or time of shutting; close.

   “the shut of a door”

   “Just then returnd at ſhut of Evening Flours.”

2. A door or cover; a shutter.
3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
4. (British, Shropshire, dialectal)A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.