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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#m1)

2) Shut (adjective) means closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#m2)

3) When a shop or place shuts, it stops being open for business. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x1)
- Shut your eyes and make a wish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x2)
- The shop shuts at six o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x3)
- Keep the gate shut so the dog stays in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x4)
- The window is shut because it's cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x5)
- Shut down the computer before you leave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x6)
- Fire doors must always be kept shut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x7)
- He shut the book with a bang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x8)
- 'Shut your eyes then,' replied the stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/16/)
- [Foxes hunt chickens, which cannot fly well and sleep deeply at night, so a hen house must be shut every evening.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/12/)
- [A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/6/)
- [A bat sleeps all day upside down without effort, because its toes lock shut on their own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/6/)
- [Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shut» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.