[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/shut/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [S](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/s/) / shut # shut verb (shut, shuts, shut, shutting); adjective (shut) «shut» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To shut something means to close it, like a door, a window, a box or your eyes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#m1) 2. Shut (adjective) means closed. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#m3) ### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x1) - Shut your eyes and make a wish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x2) - The shop shuts at six o'clock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x3) - Keep the gate shut so the dog stays in. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x4) - The window is shut because it's cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x5) - Shut down the computer before you leave. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x6) - Fire doors must always be kept shut. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x7) - He shut the book with a bang. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/#x8) - 'Shut your eyes then,' replied the stone. [tree →](https://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 Jewish tradition To shut is to close a door, and also to shut someone in, such as a person with a plague. In poems it is a figure of speech: shutting up compassion means holding it back, and shutting the heart means being hard and proud. **Interpretation.** The tradition reads "Hath He in anger shut up His compassions?" as the worry of a sufferer, not as fact about God. It teaches that God's mercy stays open to those who return to Him. ### Examples - And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. (Torah GEN.19.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x1) - And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days. (Torah LEV.13.50, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x2) - But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and the door they shut. (Torah GEN.19.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x3) - Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah (Writings PSA.77.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x4) - His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. (Writings JOB.41.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x5) - Their gross heart they have shut tight, with their mouth they speak proudly. (Writings PSA.17.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x6) ### 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». ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «shut» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shut/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«shut» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/shut.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «shut» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«shut» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/shut.html) on Mova free.