Shut vs Chit - What's the difference?
shut | chit |
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.
A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
* (get all the bibliographic particulars) (Thackeray)
* 1922 , made by W. C. Firebaugh
A pert young woman.
A sassy (saucy) or forward young person.
The embryonic growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; a seedling.
(obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
(intransitive, British, dialect) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
* Mortimer
(transitive, British, dialect) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or to assist germination.
(transitive, British, dialect) To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.
* 2012 , Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, UK Edition,
A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the .
(pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a .
(label) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
* 2005 , The unofficial, updated Third Edition of the Magic Realm Rules , by Richard Hamblen, Teresa Michelsen and Stephen McKnight
(India, China) A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
* 1901 , , by Joseph Conrad
(US, slang) A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
* 2007 , New York Times , [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/us/politics/13bill.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin]
* 2003 , , The Bone Vault , Scribner, p98:
(US, slang, euphemistic) Alternative to using the vulgarity, shit.
As nouns the difference between shut and chit
is that 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 while chit is great-great-great-grandchild.As a verb shut
is to close, to stop from being open.As an adjective shut
is closed.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)
Etymology 2
Variation of (chute) or (shute) (archaic, related to (shoot)) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (alleyway) alley, gennel (Northern Ireland), ginnel (Yorkshire and Lancashire), gitty (East Midlands), jitty (Midlands), passage, snicket (Northern England), wynd (Scotland)chit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . See also (l).Noun
(en noun)- a little chit of a woman
- "These are returns," I said, "quite fit / To me, who nursed you when a chit . / For shame, lay by this envious art; / Is this to act a sister's part?"
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes
Verb
- I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth.
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- Gardeners argue among themselves about how necessary chitting is, but I do chit my seed potatoes.
Etymology 3
From chitty from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 1.4.3 Also on the board, but turned face down at the beginning of the game, are chits' representing treasure sites and sounds and warnings of monsters that may arrive on the map. When characters end a turn in the hex, these '''chits''' are revealed. As characters move around the board, more and more of these ' chits will be revealed, letting the players know where monsters and treasures are to be found.
- He just longed to get away from here and try his luck somewhere else, but for the sake of his sister he hung on and on till he ran himself into debt over his ears—I can tell you. I, myself, could show a handful of his chits for meals and drinks in my drawer.
- And he is cashing in chits for her that Mr. Gore, post-impeachment, never asked him to do.
- Harry would call in a chit with some desk manager who owed him a favor.
