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1.nounThe act or time of shutting; close."the shut of a door"
2.nounA door or cover; a shutter.
3.nounThe line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
4.verbTo close, to stop from being open."Please shut the door."
5.verbTo close, to stop being open."If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut."
6.verbTo close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed."The pharmacy is shut on Sunday."
7.verbTo confine in an enclosed area."I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out."
8.verbTo catch or snag in the act of shutting something."He's just shut his finger in the door."
9.verbTo preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
10.nounA narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.