shutting (verb)
11Usenet — A diagram of Usenet servers and clients. The blue, green, and red dots on the servers represent the groups they carry. Arrows between servers indicate newsgroup group exchanges (feeds). Arrows between clients and servers indicate that a user is… …
12Cooks Source infringement controversy — The Cooks Source copyright infringement controversy occurred in November 2010, when Cooks Source, a free, advertising supported publication distributed in the New England region of the United States of America, became the center of a copyright… …
13shut — I. verb (shut; shutting) Etymology: Middle English shetten, shutten, from Old English scyttan; akin to Middle Dutch schutten to shut in, Old English scēotan to shoot more at shoot Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to move into… …
14shut out — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you shut something or someone out, you prevent them from getting into a place, for example by closing the doors. [V n P of n] I shut him out of the bedroom, says Maureen... [V P n (not pron)] I was set to shut out anyone else… …
15Semitic languages — Family of Afro Asiatic languages spoken in northern Africa and South Asia. No other language family has been attested in writing over a greater time span from the late 3rd millennium BC to the present. Both traditional and some recent… …
16close — I SHUTTING OR COMPLETING ♦ closes, closing, closed (Pronounced [[t]klo͟ʊz[/t]] in close 1 and 3, and [[t]klo͟ʊs[/t]] in close 2 and 4.) 1) V ERG When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or… …
17save — [[t]se͟ɪv[/t]] ♦♦ saves, saving, saved 1) VERB If you save someone or something, you help them to avoid harm or to escape from a dangerous or unpleasant situation. [V n] ...a final attempt to save 40,000 jobs in Britain s troubled aero industry …
18shut up — I verb 1. refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent (Freq. 6) The children shut up when their father approached • Syn: ↑close up, ↑clam up, ↑dummy up, ↑belt up, ↑button up …
19shut — [[t]ʃʌ̱t[/t]] ♦♦♦ shuts, shutting (The form shut is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.) 1) V ERG If you shut something such as a door or if it shuts, it moves so that it fills a hole or a space. [V n] Just make… …
20imprison — imprison, incarcerate, jail, immure, intern mean to confine closely so that escape is impossible or unlikely. The first three words imprison, incarcerate, jail imply a shutting up in or as if in a prison, imprison being the general term,… …
