📖 S — The English dictionary · page 43

shrunken — Everyday, meaning 1: Having become smaller than before, often in a way that looks wrinkled, dried or weak.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of numbers or amounts) Made smaller, reduced.↗ Example: My jumper came out of the wash all shrunken.↗ · The old man looked shrunken in the big armchair.↗ · A raisin is a shrunken, dried grape.↗ · The shrunken lake left boats stuck in the mud.↗ · In the story, the witch's spell left the prince shrunken to the size of a thumb.↗ · The shrunken budget meant fewer school trips.↗

shua — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A Canaanite man's name, the father of Judah's wife.↗ It is also the name of a woman in Chronicles, a sister of Heber's sons, and part of Bath-shua and Malchi-shua.↗ Example: And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her.↗ (Torah GEN.38.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.↗ (Torah GEN.38.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And Heber begot Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.↗ (Writings 1CH.7.32, JPS 1917)↗ · And Ner begot Kish; and Kish begot Saul; and Saul begot Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.↗ (Writings 1CH.8.33, JPS 1917)↗ · The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born unto him of Bath-shua the Canaanitess.↗ (Writings 1CH.2.3, JPS 1917)↗

shuck — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb, mainly US) To remove the outer covering of corn, peas, beans or oysters: shuck corn.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) An outer covering, like a husk or pod.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, informal) To take off clothes or get rid of something.↗ e.g. "He shucked off his coat."↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (interjection, US, old-fashioned) "Shucks!" or "Aw, shucks" shows mild disappointment or shyness at praise.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In old Southern dialect, shuck can mean to shake or shrug something quickly, like a lion shaking its mane.↗ Example: We shucked the corn before putting it in the pot.↗ · The chef shucked a dozen oysters.↗ · He shucked off his wet jacket.↗ · "Aw, shucks, it was nothing," said the cowboy.↗ · Peel the shucks off the corn cobs.↗ · Shucks!↗ I missed the bus again.↗ · En w'en de Lion shuck his mane, en tuck his seat in de big cheer, den de sesshun begun fer ter commence.↗

shucks — Everyday, meaning 1: (US, informal, old-fashioned) A mild word for disappointment or shyness: «Shucks, I missed the bus!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, US) The husks or shells of corn, peas or nuts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To remove husks or shells: shuck corn, shuck oysters.↗ Example: Shucks, I forgot my lunch!↗ · «Aw shucks, it was nothing,» said the farmer.↗ · We shucked the corn on the porch.↗ · Put the corn shucks in the compost.↗ · She shucked the peas into a bowl.↗ · Shucks, it's raining again.↗ · Oh, work on, boys! give doze shucks a mighty wringin'-- (Hey O!↗

shudder — Everyday, meaning 1: To shudder is to shake suddenly, usually from fear, cold, or disgust.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A shudder is one such shake of the body.↗ Example: Potentilla only shuddered and cried.↗ · The Prince gave a shudder.↗ · I shudder at the thought of spiders.↗

shuddering — Everyday, meaning 1: Shuddering means shaking hard with fear, cold, or disgust.↗ Example: Wendy whispered, shuddering.↗ · John said, shuddering, "It's beastly stuff."↗ · Hook stood shuddering, one foot in the air.↗

shuffle — Everyday, meaning 1: To shuffle cards means to mix them up so they are in a random order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To shuffle means to walk slowly, dragging your feet along the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To shuffle things means to move them about or change their order («shuffle papers»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To shuffle can mean to move your feet or body about because you are nervous or bored.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A shuffle is the act of shuffling, or a setting that plays songs in random order.↗ Example: Shuffle the cards before you deal.↗ · The old man shuffled down the corridor in his slippers.↗ · Pick up your feet; don't shuffle!↗ · She shuffled her papers nervously.↗ · The pupils shuffled their feet while they waited.↗ · My playlist is on shuffle.↗ · After the shuffle, the chance of the top card being an ace is 4 out of 52.↗ · The teacher shuffled the name cards to pick a helper.↗ · Uncle Remus shuffled around in an awkward, embarrassed way, scratched his head, and looked uncomfortable.↗

shun — Everyday, meaning 1: To shun someone is to keep away from them on purpose and refuse to talk to them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To shun something is to avoid it: «She shuns the spotlight».↗ Example: The other children shunned him because he was new.↗ · In the story, the village shunned the old woman.↗ · Some animals shun bright light and hide during the day.↗ · She shuns fast food and eats healthily.↗ · Being shunned by your friends can feel very lonely.↗ · We should not shun someone just because they are different.↗ · Be wise and shun the quack.↗ · THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was whole-hearted and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.↗ (Writings JOB.1.1, JPS 1917)↗

shunning — Everyday, meaning 1: Shunning means keeping away from someone or something on purpose, and refusing to have anything to do with it.↗ Example: "Are you seeking work or shunning work?"↗ · She was shunning her old friends.↗ · He kept shunning the crowds.↗

shunt — Everyday, meaning 1: To shunt something is to push or move it to one side, often roughly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To shunt a train or railway carriage is to move it from one track to another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To shunt a person is to send them somewhere less important because you do not want them in the way.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun, UK informal) A shunt is a small car crash where one car bumps into the back of another.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (noun, medicine) A shunt is a small tube doctors put in the body to carry fluid from one place to another.↗ Example: The little engine shunted the coal wagons into the siding.↗ · The new boy felt he had been shunted to the back of the class.↗ · Dad had a shunt in the car park, but nobody was hurt.↗ · The workers shunted the heavy boxes along the floor.↗ · The old carriages were shunted onto a side track.↗ · Doctors fitted a shunt to drain the fluid.↗ · Don't let the little ones be shunted aside in the game.↗

shush — Everyday, meaning 1: «Shush!» is a word that tells someone to be quiet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To shush someone is to tell them to be quiet, often by saying «shh».↗ Example: Shush!↗ The baby's asleep.↗ · The librarian shushed us.↗ · «Shush, I'm trying to listen,» said Mum.↗ · She kept shushing her little brother in the cinema.↗ · Shush, or the teacher will hear us!↗

shut — Everyday, meaning 1: To shut something means to close it, like a door, a window, a box or your eyes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Shut (adjective) means closed.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: When a shop or place shuts, it stops being open for business.↗ Example: Please shut the door behind you.↗ · Shut your eyes and make a wish.↗ · The shop shuts at six o'clock.↗ · Keep the gate shut so the dog stays in.↗ · The window is shut because it's cold.↗ · Shut down the computer before you leave.↗ · Fire doors must always be kept shut.↗ · He shut the book with a bang.↗ · 'Shut your eyes then,' replied the stone.↗ · And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him.↗ (Torah GEN.19.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days.↗ (Torah LEV.13.50, JPS 1917)↗ · But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and the door they shut.↗ (Torah GEN.19.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?'↗ Selah (Writings PSA.77.10, JPS 1917)↗ · His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.↗ (Writings JOB.41.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Their gross heart they have shut tight, with their mouth they speak proudly.↗ (Writings PSA.17.10, JPS 1917)↗

shutter — Everyday, meaning 1: A shutter is a wooden or metal cover on a window that you open and close to keep out light, wind or burglars.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a camera, the shutter is the tiny part that opens for a moment to let light in when you take a photo.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To shutter a shop or business is to close it, often for good.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A shop shutter is a metal roll-down cover on a shop front.↗ Example: Grandma closes the shutters when the sun is hot.↗ · The shutters banged in the wind all night.↗ · Press the button and the camera shutter clicks.↗ · A fast shutter can photograph a running dog without blur.↗ · The shopkeeper pulled down the metal shutter at six.↗ · Many shops on the high street are shuttered now.↗ · Green shutters made the cottage look pretty.↗ · The shutters outside the windows were closed, but lights shone through the crevices at the top.↗

shutting — Everyday, meaning 1: Shutting is closing something, like a door, window, lid or your eyes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Shutting can mean a shop, school or business closing for the day or for ever.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Phrases: shutting down (switching off a computer or closing a factory), shutting up (rude: telling someone to stop talking), shutting out (keeping someone or something out).↗ Example: Please stop shutting the door so loudly.↗ · The shop is shutting in ten minutes.↗ · She was shutting her eyes tight during the scary bit.↗ · Our library is shutting down for repairs.↗ · Remember shutting the gate so the dog can't get out.↗ · He kept shutting his friends out when he was sad.↗ · Shutting doors at night helps stop fire spreading.↗ · “Very good,” said the woman, going out and shutting the door.↗ · and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not; pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.'↗ (Prophets JOS.2.5, JPS 1917)↗

shuttle — Everyday, meaning 1: A shuttle is a bus, train or plane that goes back and forth often between two places, like an airport and a car park.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A space shuttle was a spacecraft that could fly into space and land back on Earth like a plane, so it could be used again.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In badminton, a shuttle (shuttlecock) is the feathered object you hit over the net.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In weaving, a shuttle is the tool that carries the thread across the loom.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb) To shuttle means to go or carry people back and forth between places many times.↗ Example: We caught the shuttle bus from the car park to the airport.↗ · The space shuttle landed on a long runway.↗ · I hit the shuttle so high it touched the gym ceiling.↗ · Mum shuttled us between football and swimming all Saturday.↗ · The free shuttle runs every ten minutes.↗ · On the loom, the shuttle flew from side to side.↗ · My brother shuttles between Mum's house and Dad's house every weekend.↗ · As the shuttle had run away the girl sat down to sew.↗ · My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.↗ (Writings JOB.7.6, JPS 1917)↗

shy — Everyday, meaning 1: Shy means nervous and quiet with people you do not know well.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A shy animal is easily frightened and keeps away from people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To shy away from something is to avoid it because you are nervous.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To shy (of a horse) is to jump suddenly because it is frightened.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: "Shy of" a number means a little less than it.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To be shy of something means to be wary of it or unwilling to accept it.↗ Example: She was too shy to sing in front of the class.↗ · The shy boy hid behind his mum.↗ · Deer are shy animals.↗ · Don't be shy — come and join us!↗ · He shied away from answering.↗ · The horse shied at the plastic bag.↗ · The tower is just shy of one hundred metres.↗ · Be shy of favours bestowed at the expense of others.↗

shyly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a shy way — nervously and quietly, because you feel uncomfortable with other people or new things.↗ Example: The new girl smiled shyly at the class.↗ · He shyly asked if he could join the game.↗ · The puppy peeked out shyly from behind the sofa.↗ · She shyly handed the teacher a card.↗ · The little boy looked shyly at his feet.↗ · "Thank you," she said shyly.↗ · The brothers looked shyly at their mother's friend.↗

shyness — Everyday, meaning 1: Shyness is the feeling of being nervous, quiet and uncomfortable with people you don't know well or when everyone is looking at you.↗ Example: Her shyness made it hard to speak in front of the class.↗ · Shyness is nothing to be ashamed of.↗ · Out of shyness, he hid behind his mum.↗ · A kind smile helped her get over her shyness.↗ · Many actors fought shyness when they were children.↗ · Shyness often fades as you get to know people.↗ · However, he dissembled cleverly, and putting on a sweet air of shyness he approached the rebel chief with slow steps and eyes glancing like a frightened deer.↗

si — Everyday, meaning 1: (music) The seventh note of the do-re-mi scale in some countries, now usually called «ti» in English (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: SI (science) — short for the International System of Units (from French «Système international»), the metric units scientists use, like metres, kilograms and seconds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Spanish, Italian) «sí» means «yes» in Spanish and «si» means «if» or «yes» in other languages; it is not an English word.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In pronunciation guides, si is a syllable written to show how to say part of a name, as in Scyros.↗ Example: In some countries they sing "do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si."↗ · In English we usually sing "ti" instead of "si".↗ · The SI unit of length is the metre.↗ · Write your answer in SI units: metres, kilograms or seconds.↗ · "¿Quieres pizza?" "↗ ¡Sí!" — that means "Yes!" in Spanish.↗ · Si, short for Simon, is in my football team.↗