What's the difference between close and shut?

Close


Definition:

  • (n.) To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
  • (n.) To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often used with up.
  • (n.) To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction.
  • (n.) To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine.
  • (v. i.) To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated.
  • (v. i.) To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.
  • (v. i.) To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight.
  • (n.) The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
  • (n.) Conclusion; cessation; ending; end.
  • (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
  • (n.) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
  • (n.) A double bar marking the end.
  • (v. t.) An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey.
  • (v. t.) A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within.
  • (v. t.) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not inclosed.
  • (v. t.) Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box.
  • (v. t.) Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters.
  • (v. t.) Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc.
  • (v. t.) Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close prisoner.
  • (v. t.) Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
  • (v. t.) Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent.
  • (v. t.) Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids.
  • (v. t.) Concise; to the point; as, close reasoning.
  • (v. t.) Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; -- often followed by to.
  • (v. t.) Short; as, to cut grass or hair close.
  • (v. t.) Intimate; familiar; confidential.
  • (v. t.) Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote.
  • (v. t.) Difficult to obtain; as, money is close.
  • (v. t.) Parsimonious; stingy.
  • (v. t.) Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; as, a close translation.
  • (v. t.) Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.
  • (v. t.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
  • (adv.) In a close manner.
  • (adv.) Secretly; darkly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The presence of lactalbumin was closely associated with the presence of E.R.
  • (2) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
  • (3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (4) However, survival was closely related to the severity of the illness at the time of randomization and was not altered by shunting.
  • (5) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (6) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
  • (7) The defensive modifications of the functions of the ego itself seen in micropsia are closely allied to those seen in the dèjá vu experience and in depersonalization.
  • (8) The blastocyst antiluteolytic protein therefore closely resembles the interferon-alpha family of antiviral proteins.
  • (9) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (10) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (11) Under resting conditions, the variance of cerebral metabolism seems to be primarily related to regions which are closely involved with the limbic system.
  • (12) It was concluded that the spheno-occipital complex has a close relationship to the skeletal facial pattern and contributes to the facial formation.
  • (13) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
  • (14) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (15) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (16) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
  • (17) A remarkably close relationship was found between both H. pylori urease subunits and jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) urease, the subunit of which is a single 840 amino acid polypeptide.
  • (18) (2) A close correlation between the obesity index and serum GPT was recognized by elevation of the standard partial regression coefficient of serum GPT to obesity index and that of obesity index to serum GPT when the data from all 617 students was analysed in one group.
  • (19) The new trabecular bone closely resembled that typically seen at electrically active implants.
  • (20) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.

Shut


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Shut
  • (v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
  • (v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
  • (v. t.) To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
  • (v. t.) To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.
  • (v. i.) To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
  • (a.) Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
  • (a.) Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
  • (a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.
  • (a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.
  • (n.) The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
  • (n.) A door or cover; a shutter.
  • (n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
  • (2) Early after infection, the E3 promoter is used to make mainly mRNAs a and h. Late after infection, the E3 promoter appears to be shut off and the major late promoter is used to make mainly mRNAs d and e. The late L4 mRNA 3' end site is not used early even though early E3 pre-mRNAs transcribe through the L4 RNA 3' end site.
  • (3) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (4) America is made up of immigrants and to shut the doors to others is just ludicrous.
  • (5) Mouse myeloma cells responded maximally to viral infection at a multiplicity of 1 and were considerably more se;sitive to shut-off of RNA synthesis than were mouse L cells or BHK-21 cells.
  • (6) The nuclear runoff experiments also demonstrated that the CAD gene expression was shut down in less than 4 h after induction, well before morphological changes were observed in these cells.
  • (7) The closures are part of a nationwide move to shut large numbers of urban public schools and set up privately run, publicly funded charters .
  • (8) If I was broadcasting on TV, they might shut down my programme, and I might not be able to express myself.
  • (9) Hot on the heels of the secret justice green paper – which seeks to shut claimants out of their own cases against the state to defend the "public interest" – comes a major expansion of powers to monitor the phone calls, emails and website visits of every person in the UK .
  • (10) Protests on Wednesday evening continued as smaller groups marched on the city centre, temporarily shutting down traffic on some intersections.
  • (11) The Financial Services Authority today shut the door on so-called liar loans and warned that the days of homeowners remortgaging to splash out on holidays and pay off credit card debts may soon be over.
  • (12) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (13) You see that in Colombia as well – middle-class protests that shut down Bogota.
  • (14) The cathedral is losing £20,000 for every day it is shut.
  • (15) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
  • (16) If the indicated gauge pressure is in excess of -15 kPa, investigate the equipment for excessive resistance, particularly in the shut-off valve, which should be replaced with a new unit if necessary.
  • (17) Enraged that this had happened when casting had barely commenced, the director shut down the movie unilaterally (perhaps finally ...) and sued Gawker .
  • (18) Now opponents are thinking they have a chance of shutting down the project completely – if they can make a show of force.
  • (19) But within a couple of minutes Gavin Schmidt , the website's co-founder, realised something was wrong and shut down the site.
  • (20) Chelsea were the better side, though, and were professional and experienced when they had to shut the game down.