shut down

Verb

 * 1)  To close, terminate, or end.
 * 2)  To turn off or stop.
 * 3)  To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors.
 * 4)  To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity).
 * 5)  To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.
 * 1)  To turn off or stop.
 * 2)  To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors.
 * 3)  To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity).
 * 4)  To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.
 * 1)  To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors.
 * 2)  To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity).
 * 3)  To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.
 * 1)  To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.
 * 1)  To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.
 * 1)  To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.

Usage notes

 * Phrasal verbs with the particles and  tend to connote a process that takes a span of time and contains multiple steps, whereas those with the particles  and  tend to connote an event that happens instantly, in a point of time. This nuance of cognitive schema is merely connotative, not denotative or rigorous, and therefore the phrasal verbs shut down and  are broadly synonymous with, , and , as well as  and . However, the fact that turning a computer on or off requires  and unwinding, which are multistep processes (albeit black boxes to the user in modern operating systems), influenced the origins of power management commands such as shut down rather than turn off or switch off. Similarly, power plants and ship engines are fired up and shut down, and not so much turned on and switched off, in idiomatic usage. Nonetheless, any process (no matter how complex) can be triggered with a single command, which is why an executive officer or legislature can simply  a multi-billion-dollar government program, or  a laptop user can simply  their computer, even if the program takes a while to.

Translations

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