Shut Outとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

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

1. (transitive) To prevent from entering; to block or exclude.

   His wife shut him out of his own house.

   This triple-glazing shuts out the noise of the traffic.

   • 1959 February, “Letters to the Editor: Open-Type Coaches on B.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:

     Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out.

   • 1989 April 15, Connie Johnson, “Pre-Op TS Speaks Out”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

     Fear, as a pre-teen, of being shut-out from the activities in which other children were participating.

2. (transitive) To hide from sight.

   The high wall shut out the countryside beyond.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

     Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

3. (transitive) To refuse to be open and vulnerable toward.
   • 2013, Jennifer Lee, Frozen, spoken by Elsa (Idina Menzel):

     No! Why? Why do you shut me out? Why do you shut THE WORLD out?

4. (sports) To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout.

派生語

• shutout (noun)

アナグラム

• outshut, outhuts

発音

• IPA: /ˈʃʌtˌaʊt/

名詞

shutout (plural shutouts)

1. Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.

   A shutout is a reverse strike: the union complained and the workers wanted to work, but management was opposed.

2. (sports) A game that ends with the losing side being held scoreless.

   The score wasn't just lopsided: it was a shutout.

同意語

• (sports): zilch

派生語

• (sports): SO (abbreviation)

関連する語

• clean sheet (soccer, non-US/non-Canadian)

アナグラム

• outshut, outhuts