Meaning of shut in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Closed, shut.

• Narrow; confined.

  Example: a close alley; close quarters

• At a little distance; near.

  Example: Is your house close?

• Intimate; well-loved.

  Example: He is a close friend.

• Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.

• (Ireland, England, Scotland) Hot, humid, with no wind.

• (of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.

• Strictly confined; carefully guarded.

  Example: a close prisoner

• Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.

• Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.

  Example: a close contest

• Short.

  Example: to cut grass or hair close

• Dense; solid; compact.

• Concise; to the point.

  Example: close reasoning

• Difficult to obtain.

  Example: Money is close.

• Parsimonious; stingy.

• Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.

  Example: a close translation

• Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.

  Example: The patient was kept under close observation.

• Marked, evident.

noun

• The act or time of shutting; close.

  Example: the shut of a door

• A door or cover; a shutter.

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

verb

• To close, to stop from being open.

  Example: Please shut the door.

• To close, to stop being open.

  Example: If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.

• To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.

  Example: The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.

• To confine in an enclosed area.

  Example: I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.

• To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.

  Example: He's just shut his finger in the door.

• To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

adjective

• Closed.

  Example: A shut door barred our way into the house.

noun

• A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.