| 单词 | shut off |
| 释义 | shut off1. phrasal verb If you shut off something such as an engine or an electrical item, you turn it off to stop it working. They pulled over and shut off the engine. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Will somebody please shut that alarm off. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you shut yourself off, you avoid seeing other people, usually because you are feeling depressed. Billy tends to keep things to himself more and shut himself off. [VERB pronoun-reflexive PARTICLE] She shut herself off from all the social aspects of life. [V pron-refl P from n] 3. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for shutIf an official organization shuts off the supply of something, they no longer send it to the people they supplied in the past. The State Water Project has shut off all supplies to farmers. [VERB PARTICLE noun] [Also VERB noun PARTICLE]shut-off in British Englishnoun 1. a device that shuts something off, esp a machine control 2. a stoppage or cessation verb shut off (tr, adverb) 3. to stem the flow of 4. to block off the passage through 5. to isolate or separate shut off in American English1. to prevent the passage of (electricity, steam, etc.) 2. to prevent passage through (a road, faucet, etc.) 3. to separate; isolate shut-off in American English (ʃʌtˌɔf) noun 1. something that shuts off a flow or movement, as a valve 2. a stoppage or interruption shut-off in Mechanical Engineering (ʃʌt ɔf) Word forms: (regular plural) shut-offs noun (Mechanical engineering: General) A shut-off is a device that turns something off, especially a machine control. Most gasoline pumps have an automatic shut-off that turns off the pump when the car's gas tank is nearly full. If the airflow fails, the temperature of the heater rises suddenly, and the controlsystem can execute an immediate shut-off. A shut-off is a device that turns something off, especially a machine control. Examples of 'shut-off' in a sentence |
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