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Birdie vs Shut - What's the difference?

birdie | shut |

As nouns the difference between birdie and shut

is that birdie is a bird; a birdling while shut is the act or time of shutting; close.

As verbs the difference between birdie and shut

is that birdie is to score a birdie while shut is to close, to stop from being open.

As an adjective shut is

closed.

birdie

English

Noun

(s)
  • (diminutive) A bird; a birdling.
    • Aw, that's a cute little birdie . Is it a budgie?
  • (golf) The completion of a hole one stroke below par.
    • He scored ten birdies during the tournament.
  • (badminton) A shuttlecock.
  • (electronics) An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.
  • A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle finger.
  • A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle and index fingers.

    • Synonyms

    * (diminutive for bird)

    Related terms

    * watch the birdie

    See also

    * (golf) albatross, bogey, double bogey, eagle

    Verb

    (d)
  • (golf) To score a birdie.
    • Sörenstam birdied to take the lead.
  • (golf) To score a birdie.
    • Sörenstam birdied the seventeenth hole to take the lead.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    shut

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) shutten, shetten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To close, to stop from being open.
    • Please shut the door.
    The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.
  • To close, to stop being open.
    • If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut .
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, chiefly, British) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
    • The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.
  • To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
  • * Dryden
    • shut from every shore
    Usage notes
    Except when part of one of the derived terms listed below, almost every use of shut'' can be replaced by ''close''. The reverse is not true -- there are many uses of ''close'' that cannot be replaced by ''shut .
    Derived terms
    (phrasal verbs derived from shut) * shut away * shut down * shut in * shut off * shut out * shut up (single words and compounds derived from shut) * shutdown, shut-down * shut-eye * shut-in * shutout, shut-out * shutter (idioms derived from shut) * open and shut * shut one's eyes to * shut the door on * shut up shop * shut your face * shut your mouth * shut your trap

    Adjective

    (-)
  • closed

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or time of shutting; close.
    • the shut of a door
  • * Milton
    • Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.
  • A door or cover; a shutter.
    • (Sir Isaac Newton)
  • The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

    • Etymology 2

    Variation of (chute) or (shute) (archaic, related to (shoot)) from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A narrow alley]] or [[passageway, passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
    • Synonyms
    * (alleyway) alley, gennel (Northern Ireland), ginnel (Yorkshire and Lancashire), gitty (East Midlands), jitty (Midlands), passage, snicket (Northern England), wynd (Scotland)

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