shut
part of speech
verb (shut, shuts, shut, shutting); adjective (shut)
meaning for a pupil
1) To shut something means to close it, like a door, a window, a box or your eyes. tree →
2) Shut (adjective) means closed. tree →
3) When a shop or place shuts, it stops being open for business. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To shut is to close a door, and also to shut someone in, such as a person with a plague. In poems it is a figure of speech: shutting up compassion means holding it back, and shutting the heart means being hard and proud. Interpretation: The tradition reads "Hath He in anger shut up His compassions?" as the worry of a sufferer, not as fact about God. It teaches that God's mercy stays open to those who return to Him. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and safety: shut the gate so the dog can't run into the road, shut the fridge door, keep fire doors shut, and shut doors at night to slow a fire. Shops shut at certain times (maths problems use opening and closing times). «Shut up» means stop talking, but it is rude; say «Please be quiet». «Shut down» means turn off a computer or close a business. «Shut your eyes» is used in games and at bedtime.
examples
- And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. (Torah GEN.19.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days. (Torah LEV.13.50, JPS 1917) tree →
- 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) tree →
- Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah (Writings PSA.77.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. (Writings JOB.41.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- Their gross heart they have shut tight, with their mouth they speak proudly. (Writings PSA.17.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- Please shut the door behind you. tree →
- Shut your eyes and make a wish. tree →
- The shop shuts at six o'clock. tree →
- Keep the gate shut so the dog stays in. tree →
- The window is shut because it's cold. tree →
- Shut down the computer before you leave. tree →
- Fire doors must always be kept shut. tree →
- He shut the book with a bang. tree →
- 'Shut your eyes then,' replied the stone. tree →
note
Irregular but easy: shut, shut, shut (no «shutted»). «Shutting» has double t. «Shut» and «close» are mostly the same; «close» is a bit more polite. «Shut up» is rude. «Shut» for a shop is common in British English; Americans say «closed».
In the corpora
- And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him.
- But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and the door they shut.
- And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
- And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days.
- then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «shut» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.