shut down

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Verb

shut down - cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop"

close down, close up, fold, close

adjourn, retire, withdraw - break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"

Translations

يُغْلَق، يُقْفَليَقْفِلُ

zavřít

lukkelukke ned

stilllegen auflassen

σταματώ τη λειτουργία

cerrar

lakkauttaa

fermer

zatvoriti

hætta starfsemi

chiudere

閉鎖する

폐업하다

lägga ner

ปิดถาวร

kapanmakkapatmak

đóng cửa

倒闭停业关闭

w>shut down

vt sep shop, factory → zumachen (inf), → schließen; computer, reactor → herunterfahren; (Comput) Windows® etc → beenden; reactor → abschalten; operations → stilllegen; Heathrow is completely shut down → Heathrow ist vollkommen zu or dicht (inf)

vi (shop, factory etc) → zumachen (inf), → schließen; (reactor) → sich abschalten; (engine) → sich ausschalten; (resort) → Betrieb einstellen; the television service shuts down at midnight → um Mitternacht ist Sendeschluss im Fernsehen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

shut

(ʃat) – present participle ˈshutting: past tense, past participle shut – verb

1. to move (a door, window, lid etc) so that it covers or fills an opening; to move (a drawer, book etc) so that it is no longer open. Shut that door, please!; Shut your eyes and don't look.

2. to become closed. The window shut with a bang.

3. to close and usually lock (a building etc) eg at the end of the day or when people no longer work there. The shops all shut at half past five; There's a rumour that the factory is going to be shut.

4. to keep in or out of some place or keep away from someone by shutting something. The dog was shut inside the house.

adjective

closed.

shut down (of a factory etc) to close or be closed, for a time or permanently: There is a rumour going round that the factory is going to (be) shut down (noun ˈshut-down)

shut off

1. to stop an engine working, a liquid flowing etc. I'll need to shut the gas off before I repair the fire.

2. to keep away (from); to make separate (from). He shut himself off from the rest of the world.

shut up

1. to (cause to) stop speaking. Tell them to shut up!; That'll shut him up!

2. to close and lock. It's time to shut up the shop.

shut down

→ يَقْفِلُ zavřít lukke ned stilllegen σταματώ τη λειτουργία cerrar lakkauttaa fermer zatvoriti chiudere 閉鎖する 폐업하다 afsluiten koble ut zamknąć encerrar закрывать(ся) lägga ner ปิดถาวร kapatmak đóng cửa 停业

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We took and lined her with dough, and set her in the coals, and loaded her up with rag rope, and put on a dough roof, and shut down the lid, and put hot embers on top, and stood off five foot, with the long handle, cool and comfortable, and in fifteen minutes she turned out a pie that was a satisfac- tion to look at.

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But just when they expected to make the shoals by the Virgin the fog shut down, and they anchored, surrounded by the tinklings of invisible bells.

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His hand shut down quickly over the questioning fingers on his sleeves.

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