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# shutting

«shutting» in Mova's school dictionary: **closing something, like a door, window, lid or your eyes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (present participle of shut: shut, shuts, shut, shutting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Shutting is closing something, like a door, window, lid or your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#m1)

2) Shutting can mean a shop, school or business closing for the day or for ever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#m2)

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). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, shops are shutting at 5 o'clock; computers need shutting down properly. In safety, shutting doors can slow a fire from spreading. In stories, "shutting someone out" shows a character excluding others or hiding feelings. "Shut up" is rude; "please be quiet" is polite.

### examples

- Please stop shutting the door so loudly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#x1)
- The shop is shutting in ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#x2)
- She was shutting her eyes tight during the scary bit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#x3)
- Our library is shutting down for repairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#x4)
- Remember shutting the gate so the dog can't get out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#x5)
- He kept shutting his friends out when he was sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#x6)
- Shutting doors at night helps stop fire spreading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#x7)
- “Very good,” said the woman, going out and shutting the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#x8)

### note

Double t: shut → shutting. Past tense and past participle are both "shut" (not "shutted"). "Shut up" is rude; say "please be quiet". In the UK "shut" for shops is common; "closed" is more formal.

### Trees and pragmatics

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