What does shut off mean?
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shut off
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Princeton's WordNet
shut off, close offverb
stem the flow of
"shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation"
shut off, close offverb
isolate or separate
"She was shut off from the friends"
shut off, block off, close offverb
block off the passage through
"We shut off the valve"
Wiktionary
shut offverb
To stop or turn off by closing something (such as a valve).
Wikipedia
shut off
To shut down or power off a computer is to remove power from a computer's main components in a controlled way. After a computer is shut down, main components such as CPUs, RAM modules and hard disk drives are powered down, although some internal components, such as an internal clock, may retain power.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shut off in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shut off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of shut off in a Sentence
My car shuts off from time to time, and it shut off down the highway... I didn't want to wait to flag someone down to get a jump. So I grabbed my juice and grabbed my board.
It is useful to signal that Beijing wants a more predictable environment, but many of the bureaucratic gears are rolling and can not just be shut off.
What the DNC did, arbitrarily, without discussing it with us, is shut off our access to our information, crippling our campaign.
Americans are the true first responders, we've gotta get back to the basics, and teach people tangible skills, not only how to do CPR and first aid but to shut off your house gas lines or water lines after a disaster. We've gotta get people to save money. They need their own rainy day account.
I always say in my clinic, everybody has to shut off their screen between 9 and 10, and all of them need to be charged away from the bed on a phone charge strip. Everybody : Mom, Dad, uncle, partners, siblings.
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