(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.
Shute
Definition:
(n.) Same as Chute, or Shoot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of particular note is Nancy Shute's blog for USNews.com in which she passes on an appeal for American parents of children with autism to come forward for genetic testing through the Interactive Autism Network .
(2) Ascertainment correction was made by a) an "ascertainment assumption-free" procedure, following Ewens and Shute [Theor Pop Biol 30:388-412, 1986] and compared with b) complete ascertainment and c) single ascertainment.
(3) -- The Shute seam is described as a suturing technique in episiotomy still largely unknown in Europe.
(4) For about 1 year 106 episiotomy are reapproximated using figure-of-eight sutures by W. B. Shute and 623 by using conventional techniques.
(5) Authors have found out benefits of Shute's technique and recommend to use it as a routine procedure in current obstetric practice.
(6) To determine if the lysosomal enzyme redistribution and cell damage are host-cell directed, we studied sensitivity of these events to the action of actinomycin D. By the use of actinomycin D at concentrations producing the least toxicity but maximal effectiveness in shuting down cell RNA synthesis, it was shown that the cytopathic effect and enzyme redistribution were not inhibited and, therefore, not directly controlled and induced by the cell genome in response to the virus infection.
(7) He gave up a long career as a bachelor to marry PR executive Celia Gordon Shute in 2009, and the couple now have two children.
(8) Civil defence warnings on how to survive for weeks under the stairs, imagining what you’d do when the four-minute siren wailed, how long strontium-90 stays in the air and soil, poring over graphic descriptions of dying from nuclear fallout, as in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach – all these were horribly real.
(9) The cellular and subcellular localization of acetylcholinesterase activity in cultured neurons was studied by the thiocholine techniques of Karnovsky and Roots and Lewis and Shute.
(10) Retinae of guinea pigs from the fortieth day of gestation to one day postnatally were processed for the localization of cholinesterases in the electron microscope according to the method of Lewis and Shute ('66).
(11) In the case of the McCollough effect, Shute has shown that the induced colour decreases rapidly at first and then more slowly.
(12) The Shute seam, still largely unknown in Europe, is a good technique and offers a much cleaner wound healing and a significant reduction of pain during childbed with very satisfactory functional and cosmetic results.
(13) Shute (1979) suggested that the ME could reflect a hippocampal "forgetting" mechanism which should be inhibited by GABAergic neurones and stimulated by cholinergic neurones.
(14) A number of behaviour variables were moderately to highly correlated with production variables; for example, the proportion of birds that moved away from an approaching experimenter in an unfamiliar environment ('shute test') was negatively correlated with peak hen day production, (PKHDP).
(15) We conclude from our series that the Shute forceps is useful in the delivery of premature infants, but should be employed for this maneuver only by very experienced operators.
(16) By the comparison of the forcipes from Shute, Naegele and Zweifel we can summarize, that for success is decided the indication and good operative technic and not the instrument.
(17) Chi-square testing revealed highly significant differences between women with preceding legal abortion, on the one hand, and those without, on the other, with regard to birth weight of the newborn, duration of pregnancy, cervical insufficiency, need for cerclage, imminent abortion, morbidity during pregnancy inside and outside hospital, and the need for using shute forceps on delivery.
(18) There was also a highly significant increase in the incidence of cervical insufficiency, abortus imminens, and delivery with Shute-forceps among women who had undergone induced abortion.
(19) Report about 1016 deliveries by means of the parallel forceps (W. B. Shute).
(20) That's an audacious goal, says Shute, "but Nelson thinks it's the only way scientists will be able to crack the mystery of autism."