Word Finder - shutting

definition

To close, to stop from being open.

example

Please shut the door.

definition

To close, to stop being open.

example

If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.

definition

To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.

example

The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.

definition

To confine in an enclosed area.

example

I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.

definition

To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.

example

He's just shut his finger in the door.

definition

To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

definition

The act by which something is shut.

example

openings and shuttings of doors

It was almost as if he were shutting Felipa off before she could reveal something.

She was shutting him out?

Shutting the door after her, Alex reached for Carmen.

If his week was any indication, this was not about to fix itself as easily as the portal shutting out his assassins.

He was shutting her out.

We delayed a decision until we'd discussed our shutting down with the others.

Shutting off the reading lamp, he backed out of the room and silently shut the door.

Even the sound of the door shutting did nothing to jar him.

Shutting the computer down, she left the office.

People have a way of shutting out things they aren't ready to deal with yet, or can't accept.

In fact dissemination seems to have taken place, as usual, by the conversion of one house after another into a focus of disease, a process favoured by the fatal custom of shutting up infected houses with all their inmates, which was not only almost equivalent to a sentence of death on all therein, but caused a dangerous concentration of the poison.

He failed, however, to realize his ambition of shutting in the Capet king and isolating him from the rest of Europe by crafty alliances, notably that with the emperor Frederick Barbarossawhile watching an opportunity to supplant him upon the French throne.

The deity Fate had told him as much, after shutting down Gabriel's access to the underworld.

Vaguely she was aware of a vehicle door shutting outside and the front door opening, but it wasn't a conscious thought until Katie and Alex were walking down the hall.

Instead, after opening and shutting many drawers, Melanie came across the diary of Miss S L Gleaden.

A voltage across the channel acted like a gate voltage in a conventional transistor, shutting off the flow of potassium ional transistor, shutting off the flow of potassium ions.

It was like my God shutting a door on me, I have never felt so lost, due to my own selfish actions.

The Chinese authorities now call the separatists in the western province of Xinjiang " terrorists " to justify repression and shutting down publications.

A voltage across the channel acted like a gate voltage in a conventional transistor, shutting off the flow of potassium ions.

They heard a crunching, grinding sound, a loud snap, and the turn-table came to a stop with its broadest surface shutting off the path from which they had come.

One day some gentlemen called on my mother, and I felt the shutting of the front door and other sounds that indicated their arrival.

Begin by doing all of these things while leaving the door open, and then progress to shutting the door behind him for short periods.

We tried shutting the door, but she barks very loudly.

With research, you can also find news stories about authorities shutting down mills or reporters going undercover at a suspected mill.

Between the Oxus and the hills there has already been formed a rise or flexure in the ground, which extends more or less parallel to the northern edge of the hills, and, shutting in the cultivated area of the plains, arrests all tributaries seeking to effect a junction with the Oxus from the south, and leads to the formation of marshes and swamps.

In 323 Constantine, tempted by the "advanced age and unpopular vices" of his colleague, again declared war against him, and, having defeated his army at Adrianople (3rd of July 323), succeeded in shutting him up within the walls of Byzantium.

Shutting off the sources of the Indus affluents from those of the Central Asian system of hydrography, this great water-parting is distinguished by a group of peaks of which the altitude is hardly less than that of the Eastern Himalaya.

Demosthenes was bent on shutting it against him.

Seistan Proper is bounded on the north by the Naizar, or reed-bed which fringes the Hamun; west by the Hamun itself, of which the hill called Kuh-i-Khwajah marks the central point; south by a line shutting in Sikuha and all villages and lands watered by the main Seistan canal; and east by the old bed of the Helmund, from i m.

By shutting down, what he deems unprofitable, it would increase demand on parking spaces.

The invention of the barometer and Torricelli's explanation of the vacuity above the mercury column placed before the members of the Florentine academy a ready method of obtaining vacua; for to exhaust a vessel it was only necessary to join, by means of a tube provided with stopcocks, the vessel to a barometer tube, fill the compound vessel with mercury and then to invert it in a basin containing this liquid, whereupon the mercury column fell, leaving a Torricellian vacuum in the vessel, which could be removed after shutting off the stop-cocks.

The irrigated area is divided into districts, in each of which is an overseer and a staff of watchmen to see to the opening and shutting of the modules (see Hydraulics, §§ 54 to 56) which deliver the water into the minor channels.

It was and still is held by many that the criminal may be best and most effectually weaned from his evil ways by shutting him up for lengthy periods between four walls, and subjecting him, when most susceptible, to curative processes, to constant exhortation and searching introspection, changing his nature and restoring him to society a reformed man.

Vulture hurried in quickly, shutting the door with a snap.

If the soil is suitable, the shutting post can be set simply in tamped soil, as it takes no strain.

In China, the government is now shutting down any vestige of democracy or rule of law left in Hong Kong.

Most store's policy is for the cashier to shut the register drawer and call for a supervisor so it can be figure out by shutting down the register and counting the money.

Feline renal failure simply means that your cat's kidneys are shutting down for some reason.

A child's natural instinct is to react, either with anger, or by shutting down completely.

You can do this either by staring at a candle flame or shutting your eyes to close out the world.

One of the challenges of shutting down a puppy mill is that the laws are not clearly defined.

Essentially, dying is the body's process of shutting down.

When the dog's internal organs begin to slow their functions in prelude to shutting down, the hunger impulse disappears completely.

Leaf damage retards plant growth, shutting down the 'factories' within the leaves that manufacture food for the plant.

Before shutting up shop when the cold weather strikes, complete your winter check list and come spring you can jump right into the exciting part of vegetable gardening.

Seniors who travel frequently might not want to buy a new home and deal with the hassle of shutting down utilities and obtaining people to house-sit.

The pons sends messages, shutting off the motor neurons in the spinal cord.

It's time to take action when keeping the temperature in check isn't enough for shutting your brain off to sleep.

In a person with a normal immune system, some inflammation may follow stress or trauma, but the pyrin protein is responsible for shutting down the response of neutrophils once they are no longer needed.

It was not that her clothing line was shutting its doors; she was simply re-branding.