Word Finder - shutdown

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The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.

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You need to enter your password at startup, but it's not required at shutdown.

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A statement, insult, etc. that prevents the opponent from replying further.

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When he insulted me, my reply was such a shutdown that he left the room.

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An autistic response to stress, etc. where the individual becomes silent and motionless.

This provides a more orderly shutdown than that offered by previous versions.

You're probably tired of hearing about it, but as the shutdown of the popular Yahoo Teen Chat site taught us in October of 2005, it bears repeating.

If you want to check out a new ride or an old favorite without waiting in line, paying for park admission, or taking a chance on a mechanical shutdown, roller coaster video clips are the way to go.

And we set up a listener to detect ' window closing ' events and perform a graceful shutdown.

Rob Edwards, Core cracks may force shutdown of UK reactors.

An unplanned shutdown of Penrice's Osborne soda ash plant in July/05 also cost the company AUD 750,000.

There are several proven techniques that can help empaths minimize and even shutdown their empathic abilities.

Defra has stressed that ventilation shutdown would only be used as a last resort.

Reactor 1 will undergo a statutory maintenance shutdown, commencing in April 2005.

In the event of the power not being restored and the batteries becoming exhausted, the UPS initiates a controlled server shutdown.

Workers on the 206 model took part in three strikes ahead of the summer shutdown.

During a routine shutdown of the reactor in September 1997, it was confirmed that fuel pins in three of these assemblies had failed.

An unplanned shutdown of Penrice 's Osborne soda ash plant in July/05 also cost the company AUD 750,000.

For some time I have had ' shutdown ' just SUID root, and now I 'm back to Ctrl-Alt-Del performing a shutdown -h.

You should give the command shutdown -r to perform the reboot.

Instead I use the shutdown command with the restart switch.

As you can see in the schematic there is as well a shutdown button connected to pin CD.

To enable interoperability with these libraries, set the shutdown mode to quiet.

Even attempts to simulate user keystrokes that would otherwise lead to firewall shutdown are detected and blocked.

In this case we have shutdown of strategic nuclear missiles coincident with UFO sighting over a missile silo!

In some cases the blood vessels might not go through the initial shutdown phase but dilate excessively and cause this intense redness and burning.

A 15 Amp 280 VAC solid-state relay provides local high level switching for actuation or shutdown of your system.

Quick shutdown Another useful shortcut you can use enables you to shutdown or restart your PC at the click of a button.

The boot process automatically ran Disk First Aid because I did an improper shutdown.

The researchers expect to have twice the current data by December when a planned shutdown of the beams will occur.

For some time I have had ' shutdown ' just SUID root, and now I'm back to Ctrl-Alt-Del performing a shutdown -h.