Shut

Definition

shut /ʃʌt/ v ( -tt- ; pt, pp shut ) ၁။ (က) ပိတ္သည္။ Please shut the gate. ❍ shut a drawer/cold air vent ❍ He shut the door on her/in her face (ie wouldn't let her in). (ခ) ပိတ္သည္။ The window wont't shut. ❍ The supermarket doors shut automatically. ၂။ (က) ပိတ္သည္။ မိွတ္သည္။ shut one's eyes/mouth ❍ I can't shut my case—it's too full. ❍ The cashier shut the till and locked it. (ခ) (မ်က္စိ၊ ပါးစပ္)မိွတ္သည္၊ ပိတ္သည္။ His eyes shut and he fell asleep. ❍ Her mouth opened and shut, but no sound came out. ၃။ ပိတ္သည္။ shut a book/wallet. ၄။ ( esp Brit ) (အလုပ္)ပိတ္သည္၊ သိမ္းသည္။ What time do the shops shut? ❍ We shut after lunch on a Thursday. ❍ CLOSE adj ပိတ္ထား[ေသာ]။ The door was shut. ❍ She slammed the door shut. ❍ Unfortunately the bank is shut now. ❏ shut sb/sth away [ PHRV ] တသီးတသန္႔ ထားသည္၊ ေန သည္။ She shut the letters away where no one could find them. ❍ I hate being shut away in the country. ❏ shut (sth) down [ PHRV ] (စက္႐ံု၊ လုပ္ငန္းစသည္)အၿပီး ပိတ္လိုက္သည္။ A lot of local shops have shut down in the last few years. ❍ They've shut down the chemical plant. ❏ shut-down n ပိတ္ျခင္း။ the nuclear reactor's automatic shut-down procedures ❍ Since the shut-down, hundreds of miners have been out of work. ❏ shut one's ears to sth/sb [ IDM ] နားပိတ္ထားသည္။ She decided to shut her ears to all the rumours. ❏ shut sb/oneself in (sth) [ PHRV ] အခန္းတြင္း စသည္၌ေအာင္းေနသည္။ ပိတ္ဆီးဝန္းရံထားျခင္း ခံရသည္။ She shuts herself in her room for hours. ❍ We're shut in (ie surrounded) by the hills here. ❏ shut sth in sth [ PHRV ] ညပ္သည္။ ညႇပ္မိသည္။ I shut my finger in the car door. ❏ shut sb's mouth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ႏႈတ္ပိတ္သည္။ ❏ shut sth off [ PHRV ] ပိတ္သည္။ Shut the water off before you mend the tap. ❏ shut sb/sth off (from sth) [ PHRV ] အဆက္အသြယ္ ျပတ္သည္။ After the blizzard, we were completely shut off (from the outside world). ❏ shut sb/sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ပိတ္ဆို႔သည္။ အဝင္မခံ။ Those trees shut out the view. ❍ He tried to shut all thoughts of her out of his mind. ❍ The government wants to shut the refugees out. ❏ shut (sb) up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) တိတ္တိတ္ေနခိုင္းသည္။ Oh, shut up, you idiot! ❍ Tell her to shut up. ❍ She jabbed him with her elbow to shut him up. ❏ shut sth up [ PHRV ] (အိမ္၊ အေဆာက္အအံု စသည္) တံခါးအလံုပိတ္သည္။ We always shut up the house before going away. ❏ shut sb/sth up (in sth) [ PHRV ] ေလွာင္ထားသည္။ သိမ္းထားသည္။ The dog is kept shut up in its kennel all night. ❍ She shuts her jewels up in a safe. ❏ shut up shop [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) ဆိုင္ျဖဳတ္လိုက္ သည္။ လုပ္ငန္းရပ္စဲသည္။ In the recession many small companies were forced to shut up shop. ❏ shut your mouth/face! [ IDM ] ( sl ) တိတ္စမ္း။ ပါးစပ္ ပိတ္ထားစမ္း။ Shut your mouth, nobody asked you!

Examples

1. Please shut the door behind you.
2. Shut the gate or the dog will get out.
3. Don’t worry about the curtains – I’ll shut them later.
4. I heard the front door shut.
5. Sandra shut the book and put it down on the table.
6. Let’s shut the shop early tonight.