shutdown
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Noun
shutdown (countable and uncountable, plural shutdowns)
- The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.
- You need to enter your password at startup, but it's not required at shutdown.
- There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
- 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30:
- In 1963, there was even more of a shutdown [at Christmas]. The Western and London Midland Regions ran no trains, with the rest of the network having the "barest of skeleton services". The Daily Herald called Beeching's cuts "the most scrooge-like... in railway history".
- A statement, insult, etc. that prevents the opponent from replying further.
- When he insulted me, my reply was such a shutdown that he left the room.
- (psychology, autism) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the individual freezes up and becomes silent, motionless, and unresponsive.
- 2018, Laura James, Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life, unnumbered page:
- I retreated into myself and allowed myself to be swallowed into a typically autistic shutdown.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:shutdown.
Synonyms
- (act of stopping operations): shuttering
Antonyms
Coordinate terms
- shutoff (noun)
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Translations
action of closing
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measure during a pandemic
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See also
Further reading
- “shutdown”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “shutdown”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “shutdown”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “shutdown”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
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