Ought vs Shut - What's the difference?
ought | shut |
(obsolete) (owe)
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VII:
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.182:
(auxiliary) Indicating duty or obligation.
(auxiliary) Indicating advisability or prudence.
(auxiliary) Indicating desirability.
(auxiliary) Indicating likelihood or probability.
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* Bishop Joseph Hall
at all, to any degree.
A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted with what is the case.
* {{quote-book, year=1996, title=The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense, author=Mortimer Jerome Adler
, passage=There are value judgments that are not reducible to observable matters of fact, and there are oughts that cannot be construed as hypothetical and, therefore, cannot be converted into statements of fact.
* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Truth Matters: Essays in Honor of Jacques Maritain, author=Jacques Maritain, John G. Trapani
, passage=Is there a fallacy involved in deriving an ought from a set of exclusively factual or descriptive premises?
To close, to stop from being open.
To close, to stop being open.
(transitive, or, intransitive, chiefly, British) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
* Dryden
closed
The act or time of shutting; close.
* Milton
A door or cover; a shutter.
The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
A narrow alley]] or [[passageway, passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
As verbs the difference between ought and shut
is that ought is (obsolete) (owe) or ought can be (auxiliary) indicating duty or obligation while shut is to close, to stop from being open.As nouns the difference between ought and shut
is that ought is a statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted with what is the case or ought can be cipher, zero, nought while shut is the act or time of shutting; close or shut can be a narrow alley]] or [[passageway|passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.As a pronoun ought
is anything .As an adverb ought
is at all, to any degree.As an adjective shut is
closed.ought
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Verb
(head)- There was a certayne lender, which had two detters, the one ought five hondred pence, and the other fifty.
- witnesse Aristippus , who being urged with the affection he ought his children, as proceeding from his loynes, began to spit.
Verb
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
Usage notes
* Ought'' is an auxiliary verb; it takes a following verb as its complement. This verb may appear either as a full infinitive (such as "to go") or a bare infinitive (such as simple "go"), depending on region and speaker; the same range of meanings is possible in either case. Additionally, it's possible for ''ought not to take any complement, in which case a verb complement is implied, as in, "You really ought to [do so]." * The negative of ought'' is either ''ought not (to)'' or ''oughtn't (to)Synonyms
* should (In all senses)See also
* ought to *Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- Is it a small benefit, that I am placed there where I see no drunken comessations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene rejoicings, nor ought else that might either vex or affright my soul?
Adverb
(-)See also
* aught * naught * noughtNoun
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References
* *Etymology 2
Statistics
*shut
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shutten, shetten, from (etyl) .Verb
- Please shut the door.
- The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.
- If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut .
- The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.
- 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 trapAdjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- the shut of a door
- Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.
- (Sir Isaac Newton)