shut outとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

shut out (三人称単数 現在形 shuts out, 現在分詞 shutting out, 過去形および過去分詞形 shut out)

1. To prevent from entering; to block or exclude.

   His wife shut him out of his own house.

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

2. 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 752825175:

     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 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, 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. 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.

アナグラム

• outshut

名詞

shutout (複数形 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 one side not having scored.

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

派生語

• (sports): SO (abbreviation)

同意語

• (sports): zilch