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TO SHUT OFF

Definition: TO SHUT OFF

TO SHUT OFF

1. (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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO SHUT OFF

English words defined with "TO SHUT OFF": Expansion valveIntercludeTo turn off. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO SHUT OFF": brazer, electronic, BRAZER, INDUCTIONCHEMICAL RECLAMATION EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, chinese hat, chop throttledisc-valveEGG PASTEURIZERfield operator, FLUX-TUBE ATTENDANTgate shutterinspector, outside steam-distributionmanhole-and-underground-steam-line inspectorPERCOLATOR OPERATOR, PUMPER, HEADSNOWMAKER, solderer, electronic, STEAM SERVICE INSPECTORwater string. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO SHUT OFF

DomainUsage

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.

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Speeches: TO SHUT OFF

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Nicaraguan 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.

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Modern Translation: TO SHUT OFF

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

   

Portuguese

  

desligar (break, detach, disconnect, hang up, out, separate, switch off, turn off, unbind, unlink, unplug, untie). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO SHUT OFF

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.

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Alternative Orthography: TO SHUT OFF


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      53 48 55 54      4F 46 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01001000 01010101 01010100 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#72 &#85 &#84 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0048 0055 0054      004F 0046 0046

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492534255542494040

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Speeches
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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