different between shut vs slum

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt, shut to, discharge a debt, pay off”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjan?, *skuttijan? (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutt?, *skuttj? (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”). Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).

Verb

shut (third-person singular simple present shuts, present participle shutting, simple past and past participle shut)

1. (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.

2. (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.

3. (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.

4. (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area.

5. (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.

6. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

   • 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

Translations

Adjective

shut (not comparable)

1. Closed; not open.

2. (linguistics, phonetics) Synonym of close

Translations

Noun

shut (plural shuts)

1. The act or time of shutting; close.
2. A door or cover; a shutter.

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3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

Etymology 2

Variation of chute or shute (archaic, related to shoot) from Old English sc?otan.

Noun

shut (plural shuts)

1. (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.

Synonyms

• (alleyway): See Thesaurus:alley

Anagrams

• Hust, STHU, Tush, huts, thus, tush

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

Early 19th century. Originally slang, in the sense "room", especially "backroom" [attested 1812]; of unknown origin.

Noun

slum (countable and uncountable, plural slums)

1. (countable) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:slum

   • 1855, Charles Dickens, "Gambling", in Household Words Volume 31

     Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber […]

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvi:

     I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in the slums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms.
2. (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

slum (third-person singular simple present slums, present participle slumming, simple past and past participle slummed)

1. (intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

Derived terms

• slum it
• slummer

Etymology 2

See slumgullion.

Noun

slum (uncountable)

1. (slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.

Further reading

• slum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lums, MLUs, UMLS, lums

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slum]
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

slum m

1. slum (dilapidated neighborhood)

Further reading

• slum in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

slum m (definite singular slummen, indefinite plural slummar, definite plural slummane)

1. a slum

References

• “slum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???m

Noun

slum f (definite sluma)

1. Old, sour and blue buttermilk without cream.