shut

«shut» in Mova's school dictionary: to close it, like a door, a window, a box or your eyes — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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

• The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.
• Foxes hunt chickens, which cannot fly well and sleep deeply at night, so a hen house must be shut every evening.
• A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds.
• A bat sleeps all day upside down without effort, because its toes lock shut on their own.
• Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shut» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.