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Shut Pronunciation

Pronounce Shut as S HH UW T.

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    Shut phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'shut'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of shut: /shut/
    • Modern IPA representation of shut: /shʊt/

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    List of meaning for shut

    shut, unopen, closed(adj)

    not open

    "the door slammed shut"

    closed, shut(verb)

    used especially of mouth or eyes

    "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight"

    close, shut(verb)

    move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

    "Close the door"; "shut the window"

    close, shut(verb)

    become closed

    "The windows closed with a loud bang"

    exclude, keep out, shut out, shut(verb)

    prevent from entering; shut out

    "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"

    to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening

    please shut the door when you leave

    to stop the operations of

    shut both stores for a week

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    shut in sentence

    1. After licking the envelope to moisten it, I sealed it shut and placed it in the mailbox.

    2. Since Billy didn’t shut the glass door completely, his mom could feel a small draught.

    3. An extreme vitamin imbalance gave the runner such high iron that her liver shut down.

    4. When the toy store chain shut down, they sent layoff notices all over the country to the now out-of-work employees.

    5. A slaughter house was shut down after local officials ruled they were killing certain animals illegally.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term shut

    You need to shut that down, but remain calm.

    – Vicki Salemi

    The missile testing is not just done in Tongchang-ri so it does not necessarily mean all ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) will be disabled. But the most well-known one is this, so there is a great symbolic meaning if this is shut down.

    – Moon Hong-sik

    To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.

    – Ogden Nash

    My hope is there’s a recognition on the part of the next speaker, something I think House Speaker John Boehner understood … that we can have significant differences on issues but that does n’t mean you shut down the government.

    – President Obama

    I did not think it was realistic when Republicans did not have a majority in the Senate, but when the government shut down, what happened? Government employees got their full pay -- in essence they got a two-week paid vacation. I'm not aware of any hardship to anyone, other than the veterans trying to get to the World War II memorial.

    – Carly Fiorina

    No one ever came to me and said we should shut down our compound in Benghazi.

    – Hillary Clinton

    I do look back and think about how much worse it could have been, i could have had way more health problems than I had, but my liver is fine! Everything shut down before any more damage could happen. To walk out of there alive, without cirrhosis or needing transplants, you know, it could have been worse.

    – Avril Lavigne ex-husband

    We screamed and we ran back into the apartment and shut the door.

    – Resident Jan Johnson

    You’re supposed to shut your eyes, I don’t want to shut my eyes on national television, i can only say, based on my personal experience, that if you’re sitting cross-legged, on the yoga mat, and you’re doing it and you’re really trying to inhale, and hold it and then have a long exhale, it is very relaxing.

    – Bill Clinton

    It appears so, this is the same senator who shut down the government last year in protest over the Affordable Care Act?

    – Josh Reid

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