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# shutting

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

«shutting» 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. Shutting is closing something, like a door, window, lid or your eyes. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/#m3)

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

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: In Joshua it means closing the city gate at dusk. Rahab uses this to send the king's men away while she hides the spies. In the primary 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

- and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not; pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.' (Prophets JOS.2.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shutting/#x1)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «shutting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shutting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shutting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/shutting.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «shutting» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shutting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shutting» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/shutting.html) on Mova free.