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Meaning of "half-shut" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-SHUT

half-shut  [ˌhɑːfˈʃʌt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-SHUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Half-Shut is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HALF-SHUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half-shut in the English dictionary

The definition of half-shut in the dictionary is partially closed; not fully open.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HALF-SHUT


chut
tʃʌt
cockshut
ˈkɒkˌʃʌt
shut
ʃʌt
unshut
ʌnˈʃʌt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-SHUT

half-remembered
half-rhyme
half-right
half-round chisel
half-round file
half-ruined
half-second
half-section
half-serious
half-seriously
half-silvered
half-sister
half-size
half-sleeve
half-slip
half-smile
half-sole
half-staff
half-starved
half-step

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-SHUT

bahut
bathing hut
beach hut
bhut
go phut
hut
keep one´s mouth shut
Landshut
mud hut
Nissen hut
open-and-shut
phut
Quonset hut
the hut
tramping hut
with one´s eyes shut

Synonyms and antonyms of half-shut in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half-shut» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-SHUT

Find out the translation of half-shut to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-shut from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-shut» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半关闭
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medio cerrados
570 millions of speakers

English

half-shut
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधा बंद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نصف الإغلاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полузакрытыми
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

semi- fechada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধনিমীলিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mi-clos
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Separuh tutup
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

halb geschlossen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

半ドアで
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반 차단
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah mati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nửa đóng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை நிறுத்தல்களுக்குப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्ध-बंद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yarım kapatma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

socchiusi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pół - zamknięte
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

напівзакритими
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jumătate de închidere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μισό - κλείσιμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- toe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halv shut
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halv stengt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-shut

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-SHUT»

The term «half-shut» is normally little used and occupies the 121.891 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-SHUT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-shut

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-SHUT»

Discover the use of half-shut in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-shut and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Back-Story: First Time Tales by the Stranger Next Door
We soon learned the old politician was correct when he said, "One must enter marriage with eyes wide open and live it with eyes half shut." But what if eyes half shut cannot keep the differences at bay? We either quit immediately -- or stay.
Jennifer H. R. Cutler, 2008
2
Half the House: My Life in and Out of Jerusalem
The man next to me has a diseased half-shut eye, some of his teeth are missing, some are discolored, yet when he smiles a spark in his one good blue eye lights up and for a moment he looks like Paul Newman. He tells me about his longings  ...
Rachel Berghash, 2011
3
The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ...
What dreams have we dreamed, and what visions have we seen, lying idly with half-shut eyes in some ' greenwood shaw,' sheltering from July's noonday sun, while we seemed to hear 'airy tongues that syllable men's names,' in the husky ...
Robert Chambers, 1864
4
Philip Larkin: A Concordance to the Poetry of Philip Larkin
Half-shut 1 By staring at your eyes (hazel, half-shut) Half-submerged 1 Their churches half-submerged in leaf. They lie Half-tight 1 Black-gowned, unbreakfasted, and still half-tight Half-turned 1 Half-turned to Europe, lonely northern daughter, ...
R. J. C. Watt, 1995
5
Birth of a Song
Half-Shut. Door. "L. not tomorrow, I'll return the day after," he repeated time and again, "Delhi is not far." Everytime he said it, she would laugh an unsure laughter. Pakistan had been agreed to. A dream had come true. Durdana, a devotee of ...
Kartar Singh Duggal, 1991
6
The Half-vanished Structure: Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics
On the contrary, Hawthorne's avowed admiration for Eliot would seem to be as strong as ever: "(with my eyes of sense half shut, and those of the imagination widely opened,) I used to see the holy Apostle of the Indians, with the sunlight ...
Magnus Ullén, 2004
7
The One Vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the ...
His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun. He had a pipe in his mouth, and he took it out, and, after slowly blowing all his smoke away and looking hard at me ...
Alex Woloch, 2003
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The Scots Magazine
60 & 70 (Smallpox -- 3 Zach. Neufville, De nature at'iJfixi. 70 & 30 4 IStillbom -- z From England. 80 St 90 zzTeething --- 4 Iohn Willis, De ificra. I 90 8: roo r]une r5. 177s. Iune 17- '778. 'Banle Stoek, -- - sndia ditto. '34 l half shut . South-Sea ditto ...
‎1778
9
Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English
Lledffromi, v. a. (lledffrom) To act fretfully. Lledffvdd, »./ (ffydd) Slight faith, slight reliance Lledffyddiaw, t>. (lledffydd) To have slight faith. Lledgaead, a. (caead) Half shut, half closed. Lledgais, ». m. (cais) A slight attempt, or essay. Lledgaled, a.
William Owen Pughe, 1832
10
Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early ...
In unmistakable analogy to the sun's smiling down on "the half-shut flowers," Mrs. Mason's pedagogical function is to re-create her own mode of vigilant self- awareness within her protegees and to make them incubate her own relentless ...
Thomas Pfau, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-SHUT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-shut is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Woman Forces to Strip Recalls
Her left eye is permanently half-shut. She was sitting under the same arbor of the well-muscled grapevines where she lay in July 2014, ... «The Citizen, Jul 15»
2
Spaces That Lie Between Us
There are a few half-shut eyes heavily pressed onto viewfinders of telescopes, there are some naked eyes wide open with wonder, but mostly, ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
3
British women 'can't look like Jennifer Lawrence during the summer …
... were filling up with women frantically trying to find something floaty and cool that wouldn't make them look like a pair of half-shut curtains. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Don't scoff at hipster coffee shops. They've been around for 300 years
... coffee house, her commodity of choice is introduced as: “Coffee, (which makes the politician wise/And see thro' all things with half-shut eyes). «The Guardian, Jun 15»
5
Pastor Benton comes to town
He sat down at the small St. Louis Bread Co. table in the early morning, just as the sun was peeking through the half-shut blinds. «The Edwardsville Intelligencer, Jun 15»
6
Cutting the cord
... are nodding back against the wall and my eyelids are in the half-shut sleeping position. If we tried to watch anything, I'd miss half the show. «Colorado Springs Independent, Jun 15»
7
Sam Shepard arrested on DUI charge in Santa Fe
A booking photo released by the jail showed a disheveled-looking Sam Shepard, with his heavily hooded eyes half-shut and his long grey hair ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
8
A conductor who's taught classes at Google and Goldman Sachs …
One of the towering figures of 20th century music, Richard Strauss' conducting style shows eyelids half-shut, and very small and monotonous ... «Business Insider Australia, May 15»
9
Gotta Catch 'Em Brawl
“I'm running on like four hours of sleep right now, man,” 909's artistic director Ryan Morris meekly stated, with his eyes half-shut as he lay ... «Highlander Newspaper, May 15»
10
Insane Clown Posse find faith on new album 'Lost'
He's just cued up ICP's new album, the unrelenting "The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost," and he's nearly expressionless, eyes half-shut, as the ... «The Detroit News, Apr 15»

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