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Shut vs Darted - What's the difference?

shut | darted |

As verbs the difference between shut and darted

is that shut is to close, to stop from being open while darted is past tense of dart.

As an adjective shut

is closed.

As a noun shut

is the act or time of shutting; close.

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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    darted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dart)

    • Anagrams

    *

    dart

    English

    2.Barrel 3.O-ring 4.Shaft 5.Collar 6.Flight 7.Protector.

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dart, from (etyl) dart, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
  • * 1769 , Oxford Standard Text, , xviii, 14,
    • Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
  • Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
  • * 1830 , , Sensibility'', ''The Works of Hannah More , Volume 1, page 38,
    • The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
  • (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
  • * 1947 , , Halfway to Anywhere , 1970, page 79,
    • Trucking?s my dart too.
  • A sudden or fast movement.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=Septembe 24 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Six minutes later Cueto went over for his second try after the recalled Mike Tindall found him with a perfectly-timed pass, before Ashton went on another dart , this time down his opposite wing, only for his speculative pass inside to be ruled forward.}}
  • (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
  • * 2013 , The Economist, Nadia Popova
    • Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.
  • A fish; the dace.
  • (in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.
    • Derived terms
    * dart sac

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) darten, from the noun (see above).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
  • To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
    • The sun darts forth his beams.
    Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart ? -
  • To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
    • The flying man darted eastward.
  • To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
    • The deer darted from the thicket.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Mark Vesty , title=Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.}}
    Derived terms
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