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So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
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Meaning of "shutdown" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHUTDOWN

shutdown  [ˈʃʌtˌdaʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHUTDOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shutdown is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb shutdown in English.

WHAT DOES SHUTDOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Shutdown

Shutdown or shut down may refer to: ▪ Government shutdown ▪ Shutdown ▪ Shutdown ▪ Shutdown ▪ Shutdown of thermohaline circulation ▪ Shut down valve...

Definition of shutdown in the English dictionary

The first definition of shutdown in the dictionary is the closing of a factory, shop, etc. Other definition of shutdown is to cease or cause to cease operation. Shutdown is also to close by lowering.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SHUTDOWN

PRESENT

Present
I shutdown
you shutdown
he/she/it shutdowns
we shutdown
you shutdown
they shutdown
Present continuous
I am shutdowning
you are shutdowning
he/she/it is shutdowning
we are shutdowning
you are shutdowning
they are shutdowning
Present perfect
I have shutdowned
you have shutdowned
he/she/it has shutdowned
we have shutdowned
you have shutdowned
they have shutdowned
Present perfect continuous
I have been shutdowning
you have been shutdowning
he/she/it has been shutdowning
we have been shutdowning
you have been shutdowning
they have been shutdowning
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I shutdowned
you shutdowned
he/she/it shutdowned
we shutdowned
you shutdowned
they shutdowned
Past continuous
I was shutdowning
you were shutdowning
he/she/it was shutdowning
we were shutdowning
you were shutdowning
they were shutdowning
Past perfect
I had shutdowned
you had shutdowned
he/she/it had shutdowned
we had shutdowned
you had shutdowned
they had shutdowned
Past perfect continuous
I had been shutdowning
you had been shutdowning
he/she/it had been shutdowning
we had been shutdowning
you had been shutdowning
they had been shutdowning
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will shutdown
you will shutdown
he/she/it will shutdown
we will shutdown
you will shutdown
they will shutdown
Future continuous
I will be shutdowning
you will be shutdowning
he/she/it will be shutdowning
we will be shutdowning
you will be shutdowning
they will be shutdowning
Future perfect
I will have shutdowned
you will have shutdowned
he/she/it will have shutdowned
we will have shutdowned
you will have shutdowned
they will have shutdowned
Future perfect continuous
I will have been shutdowning
you will have been shutdowning
he/she/it will have been shutdowning
we will have been shutdowning
you will have been shutdowning
they will have been shutdowning
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would shutdown
you would shutdown
he/she/it would shutdown
we would shutdown
you would shutdown
they would shutdown
Conditional continuous
I would be shutdowning
you would be shutdowning
he/she/it would be shutdowning
we would be shutdowning
you would be shutdowning
they would be shutdowning
Conditional perfect
I would have shutdown
you would have shutdown
he/she/it would have shutdown
we would have shutdown
you would have shutdown
they would have shutdown
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been shutdowning
you would have been shutdowning
he/she/it would have been shutdowning
we would have been shutdowning
you would have been shutdowning
they would have been shutdowning
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you shutdown
we let´s shutdown
you shutdown
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to shutdown
Past participle
shutdowned
Present Participle
shutdowning
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHUTDOWN


blowdown
ˈbləʊˌdaʊn
breakdown
ˈbreɪkˌdaʊn
cooldown
ˈkuːlˌdaʊn
countdown
ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn
cutdown
ˈkʌtˌdaʊn
drawdown
ˈdrɔːˌdaʊn
godown
ˈɡəʊˌdaʊn
hoedown
ˈhəʊˌdaʊn
markdown
ˈmɑːkˌdaʊn
meltdown
ˈmɛltˌdaʊn
pastedown
ˈpeɪstˌdaʊn
pull-down
ˈpʊlˌdaʊn
shootdown
ˈʃuːtˌdaʊn
showdown
ˈʃəʊˌdaʊn
slowdown
ˈsləʊˌdaʊn
smackdown
ˈsmækˌdaʊn
step-down
ˈstɛpˌdaʊn
sundown
ˈsʌnˌdaʊn
teardown
ˈtɛərˌdaʊn
touchdown
ˈtʌtʃˌdaʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHUTDOWN

shut
shut one´s eyes to
shut one´s face
shut the door on
shut up
shut up shop
shut-in
shut-off
shut-out bid
Shute
shuteye
shutout
shutter
shutter priority
shutter release
shutter speed
shutterbug
shuttered
shuttering
shutterless

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHUTDOWN

back down
break down
bring the house down
down
get down
go down
hold down
letdown
low-down
ride down
sit down
sit-down
takedown
turn down
up and down
up-and-down
upside down
upside-down
when the chips are down
wind down

Synonyms and antonyms of shutdown in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shutdown» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHUTDOWN

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

Translator English - Chinese

歇业
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cierre
570 millions of speakers

English

shutdown
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शटडाउन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اغلاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

выключение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

paralização
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শাটডাউন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fermeture
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

menutup
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schließung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

操業停止
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

폐쇄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tắt máy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பணிநிறுத்தம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शटडाउन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kapat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

chiusura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

shutdown
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вимикання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

închidere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

shutdown
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afsluit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avstängning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shutdown
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shutdown

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHUTDOWN»

The term «shutdown» is very widely used and occupies the 15.371 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHUTDOWN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «shutdown» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «shutdown» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shutdown

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6 QUOTES WITH «SHUTDOWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shutdown.
1
Madhur Bhandarkar
After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.
2
Eric Cantor
The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.
3
Tim Crouch
A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.
4
Monica Lewinsky
So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
5
Darlene Senger
A government shutdown is inexcusable.
6
Debbie Stabenow
Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHUTDOWN»

Discover the use of shutdown in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shutdown and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Shutdown
Zoe's only remaining option to save humanity from the cruel Chancellor is to infiltrate the Community on her own and upend the Link system, freeing the world from the hardware that controls their thoughts and emotions, and hope it will ...
Heather Anastasiu, 2013
2
Shutdown
A series of faulty silicon chips spells certain death for the computer industry in the wake of terrible accidents and several lawsuits until FBI hacker Erika Conklin, assisted by agent Brent McClaine, discovers that a saboteur is ...
R. J. Pineiro, 2002
3
Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage Management: Effective ...
In a critical field, this book shows the maintenance manager or project leader how to get the job done correctly. * Covers all aspects of major maintenance project planning, minimizing downtime and improving maintenance schedules * Covers ...
Tom Lenahan, 2011
4
Practical Industrial Safety, Risk Assessment and Shutdown ...
This is a book for engineers that covers the hardware and software aspects of high-reliability safety systems, safety instrumentation and shutdown systems as well as risk assessment techniques and the wider spectrum of industrial safety.
Dave Macdonald, 2003
5
Shutdown: the failure of economic rationalism and how to ...
Critical examination of the effects on the Australian economy of the practice of radical free-market policies.
John Carroll, Robert Manne, 1992
6
Shutdown at Youngstown: Public Policy for Mass Unemployment
Research reported in the text is based on personal interviews, social indicator data, and data from health and human service agencies.
Terry F. Buss, F. Stevens Redburn, 1983
7
Process Plants: Shutdown and Turnaround Management
This book outlines a strategy to execute optimized shutdown and turnaround by changing plant operating conditions and inspection techniques.
Trinath Sahoo, 2013
8
Government Shutdown: Operations of the Department of Defense ...
Commanders should carefully review their missions and functions in developing a shutdown plan, to ensure that operations are reduced to minimum levels required to perform exempt activities. Reduced staffing or functional levels may be ...
Stephen Daggett (au)
9
Nokia Firewall, VPN, and IPSO Configuration Guide
During a proper system shutdown, with the shutdown or halt commands, each partition or file system is marked to show it was cleanly unmounted and so will not be checked for errors during system startup. If for some reason the system is not ...
Andrew Hay, Keli Hay, Peter Giannoulis, 2009
10
Gas-injection-start and shutdown characteristics of a 2- to ...
Two methods of starting the Brayton power system have been considered: using the alternator as a motor to spin the Brayton rotating unit (BRU), and spinning the BRU by forced gas injection.
Dennis A. Cantoni, Lewis Research Center, 1972

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHUTDOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shutdown is used in the context of the following news items.
1
VA hospital project shutdown likely
KUSA— Another shutdown on the construction of Colorado's massively over-budget VA ... I'm very worried, very concerned that we're headed to a shutdown.". «9NEWS.com, May 15»
2
Homeland Security Releases Plans for Possible Shutdown
The Department of Homeland Security has released its plans for a potential shutdown of the agency. Late on Friday, Congress approved a one-week extension ... «NBCNews.com, Feb 15»
3
How to Spin a Government Shutdown
During the last shutdown, a majority of Americans blamed the GOP and the party's approval rating fell to an all-time low of 22 percent in a Wall Street Journal poll ... «National Journal, Feb 15»
4
GOP aims to avoid shutdown
House Republican leaders are aiming to delay a challenge to President Barack Obama's controversial immigration executive order until early next year in an ... «CNN, Dec 14»
5
Congress Returns To Work With Government Shutdown Threat …
Last fall, they sparked a partial government shutdown over the implementation of President Barack Obama's health law. Now, Republicans are pressing for ... «Huffington Post, Sep 14»
6
Government Shutdown Came At Major Cost To National Parks
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown last fall resulted in nearly 8 million fewer visitors to national parks, costing the parks and surrounding ... «Huffington Post, Mar 14»
7
Congress sends Obama bill to end shutdown
ended a stalemate created last month, when hard-line conservatives pushed GOP leaders to use the threat of shutdown to block a landmark expansion of ... «Washington Post, Oct 13»
8
Anatomy of a shutdown
But President Barack Obama pulled him aside for a grilling. Obama wanted to know why they were in the second day of a government shutdown that the speaker ... «Politico, Oct 13»
9
Some states step in to pay to reopen national parks during shutdown
SALT LAKE CITY — The Obama administration's willingness to reopen national parks shuttered by the government shutdown came with a big caveat: States ... «New York Daily News, Oct 13»
10
NBC/WSJ poll: Shutdown debate damages GOP
The Republican Party has been badly damaged in the ongoing government shutdown and debt limit standoff, with a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll ... «NBCNews.com, Oct 13»

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