Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To close, terminate, or end. 2 (context idiomatic English) To turn off or stop.
WordNet
v. cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M." [syn: close, fold, close down] [ant: open]
Wikipedia
"Shut Down" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Roger Christian for the US rock band the Beach Boys. The primary melody is a Twelve-bar blues. It was released on their 1963 album Surfin' U.S.A. and was also released on their 1963 album Little Deuce Coupe. It was also released as the B-side of the " Surfin' U.S.A." single. The single peaked at number 23 in the US on the 'Billboard' Hot 100 chart (number seven on the United Press International chart published in newspapers), and number 34 in the UK
The song details a drag race between a Super-Stock 413 cu. in.-powered 1962 Dodge Dart and a fuel-injected 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray and is derived from a longer poem by Christian.
The song was recorded and released by Jan & Dean on their 1982 album, One Summer Night/Live.
"Shut Down" is the first single released by Australian rock band Australian Crawl from their third studio album Sons of Beaches. The song was written by drummer Bill McDonough and features lead vocals by James Reyne. The B-side was the non-album track "Creating Monsters". It was produced by Mike Chapman.
"Shut Down" was released in June, 1982 and reached #17 on the Australian Singles Chart in 1982.
"Shut Down" is the 60th episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on September 8, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network. Jodi Lyn O'Keefe does not appear in this episode.
Usage examples of "shut down".
Furthermore, production by assembly line creates a fundamental need for planned obsolescence or else the assembly line, by its own efficiency, would fill the needs of everyone in the market and be forced to shut down.
They shut down everything, all the bridges, the tunnels, even the Staten Island ferry.
The service crews had shut down the big power plants and turned off the air exchangers and already the heat from the massive engines made the compartment uncomfortably warm.
Even before the process of entry has fully shut down he is speak.
The few crew onboard are dead, killed by a delayed-action gas bomb, the ship shut down.
The distant spark extinguished as safety circuits shut down the tumbling craft's rocket engines.
In the great middle ground, the appropriate balance of Shock and Awe must cause the perception and anticipation of certain defeat and the threat and fear of action that may shut down all or part of the adversary's society or render his ability to fight useless short of complete physical destruction.
Laheran had ordered the other guildhouses on the island shut down, leaving only the one house in the Triple Hamlet open.
Killed and hoisted on deck for the sake of his skin, one of these sharks almost took poor Queequeg's hand off, when he tried to shut down the dead lid of his murderous jaw.
All the exterior lights shut down along with the engines and there was an audible sound like an airlock being sealed.
Once he activates the Tachyon Drive everything will shut down except for life support.
Once out of the increased energy flow the system shut down and we stopped.
He could see with his own eyes that his audio system had correctly shut down, and still the sound oozed around the dome.