Word Meanings - SHUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

shutten, schutten, shetten, schitten, AS. scyttan to shut or lock up , properly, to fasten with a bolt or bar shot across, fr. AS. sceótan to shoot. sq. 1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's

Additional info about word: SHUT

shutten, schutten, shetten, schitten, AS. scyttan to shut or lock up , properly, to fasten with a bolt or bar shot across, fr. AS. sceótan to shoot. sq. 1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth. 2. To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade. Shall that be shut to man which to the beast Is open Milton. 3. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. "Shut from every shore." Dryden. 4. 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. To shut in. To inclose; to confine. "The Lord shut him in." Cen. vii. 16. To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts in another. -- To shut off. To exclude. To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or gate. -- To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. -- To shut together, to unite; to close, especially to close by welding. -- To shut up. To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house. To obstruct. "Dangerous rocks shut up the passage." Sir W. Raleigh. To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner. Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Gal. iii. 23. To end; to terminate; to conclude. When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. Collier. To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding. To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or force.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHUT)

• Close \adj Narrow
• limited
• restricted
• condensed
• packed
• secret
• compressed
• solid
• firm
• compact
• reserved
• niggardly
• shut
• fast
• dense
• Close Shut
• conclude
• stop
• complete
• Enclose
• Shut
• encircle
• environ
• include
• circumscribe
• envelop
• wrap
• afforest
• Recluse
• sequestered
• retired
• apart
• solitary
• conventual
• regular
• dissocial

Related words: (words related to SHUT)

• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• PACKWAX
  See PAXWAX
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• PACKER
  A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• CONDENSATIVE
  Having the property of condensing.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• RECONDENSATION
  The act or process of recondensing.
• PACK
  To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. (more info) 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or
• REPACKER
  One who repacks.