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Definition: TO SHUT OFF |
TO SHUT OFF1. (a) To exclude. (b) To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or gate. |
Crosswords: TO SHUT OFF |
| English words defined with "TO SHUT OFF": Expansion valve ♦ Interclude ♦ To turn off. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO SHUT OFF": brazer, electronic, BRAZER, INDUCTION ♦ CHEMICAL RECLAMATION EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, chinese hat, chop throttle ♦ disc-valve ♦ EGG PASTEURIZER ♦ field operator, FLUX-TUBE ATTENDANT ♦ gate shutter ♦ inspector, outside steam-distribution ♦ manhole-and-underground-steam-line inspector ♦ PERCOLATOR OPERATOR, PUMPER, HEAD ♦ SNOWMAKER, solderer, electronic, STEAM SERVICE INSPECTOR ♦ water string. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I want you to shut off the logical part of your mind. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) They're going to shut off the phone. (Lush Life; writing credit: Janine Sherman) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Nicaraguan freedom fighters have never asked us to wage their battle, but I will fight and effort to shut off their lifeblood and consign them to death, defeat, or a life without freedom. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO SHUT OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | afbryde (break, cut, cut a connection, interrupt, shut off, stop, switch off, turn off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitschakelen (cut, cut a connection, eliminate, shut off, stop, switch off, turn off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | arrêter l'alimentation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | abschalten (deactivate, kill, log-off, shut off, shut out, switch off, to deenergize, to disable, to extinguish, to passivate, to switch off, to turn off, turn off, unwind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόβω (carve, chop, clip, cut, cut down, cut out, fell, nip, pluck, sever, shear, slacken), αποσυνδέω (decompose, disconnect, uncouple, undock), διακόπτω (abort, adjourn, break in, break off, cease, chip in, cut in, cut off, disconnect, discontinue, intercept, intermit, interrupt, pause, sever, snub, suspend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kikapcsol (cut off, declutch, incapacitate, shut off, switch off, to cut out, to disengage, to incapacitate, to switch off, to trip, to turn off, to unclasp, to uncouple, to unhitch, to unhook, unclasp, ungear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | staccare (divide, knock off, pick, pluck, remove, separate, stand out, take, tear, tear off, tear out), spegnere (be extinguished, blow out, cut off, die down, douse, extinguish, fade, go out, pass away, put, put off, put out, quench, shut off, slake, snuff, stub out, switch off, turn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otay utshay offay desligar (break, detach, disconnect, hang up, out, separate, switch off, turn off, unbind, unlink, unplug, untie). (various references) la tuberia intermedia se coloca y cementa encima de la zona productiva, a fin de aislar toda formacion permeable y evitar que cualquier formacion no consolidada se hunda y caiga dentro del pozo (the intermediate casing is run and cemented above the production zone, to shut off any permeable formations and to prevent any unconsolidated formations from caving into the hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-f-h-o-o-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: outshot, shutoff. | |
-3 letters: tooths. | |
-4 letters: foots, hoofs, hoots, huffs, ottos, shoot, shott, shout, sooth, south, stout, stuff, thous, toffs, tofts, tofus, tooth, toots, touts, tuffs, tufts. | |
-5 letters: foot, hoof, hoot, host, hots, huff, huts, offs, oohs, oots, otto, oust, outs, shoo, shot, shut, soft, soot, soth, thou, thus, toff, toft, tofu, toot, tosh, tost. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      53 48 55 54      4F 46 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01001000 01010101 01010100 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   S H U T   O F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0053 0048 0055 0054      004F 0046 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54492534255542494040 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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