Meaning

4 senses

  1. The act or time of shutting; close.

    the shut of a door

  2. A door or cover; a shutter.

  3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

  4. (Shropshire, UK, dialectal)A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.

Examples

1490 sentences

  1. I shut the door behind me.

    Я зачинив за собою дверi. — rmdas

    ruЯ закрыл за собой дверь. — paul_lingvo

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  2. Please shut the door behind you.

    Будь ласка, зачини за собою двері. — deniko

    ruПожалуйста, закройте за собой дверь. — marafon

    deSchließ bitte die Tür hinter dir. — MUIRIEL

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  3. Tom told Mary to shut up.

    Том сказав Мері замовкнути. — deniko

    ruТом сказал Мэри замолчать. — marafon

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  4. Will you shut the door, please?

    Зачини двері, будь ласка. — deniko

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  5. Tom tried to shut the door.

    Том спробував зачинити двері. — Balamax

    ruТом попытался закрыть дверь. — Balamax

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Origin

From Middle English schitten, schetten, from Old English sċyttan (“to cause rapid movement

From Middle English schitten, schetten, from Old English sċyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-West Germanic *skuttjan, from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”). The Modern English word was originally a dialect form; the Old English word would have normally merged with shit.

Variation of chute or shute (archaic, related to shoot) from Old English scēotan.

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Forms

plural: shuts
Singularshut
Pluralshuts

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
alleyway:alley

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcold shut

Collocations

12 patterns
  • shut the door
  • shut the window
  • mouth shut
  • shut up and
  • the door shut
  • to shut the
  • shut the gate
  • his mouth shut
  • just shut up
  • to shut up
  • door shut
  • shut the barn

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
shunshuntshushshutdownshuttershuttle

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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