shutdown
See also: shut down
English
Etymology
From the verb phrase shut down.
Noun
shutdown (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.
- 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) 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.
- 2020, Siena Castellon, The Spectrum Girl's Survival Guide: How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic, page 34:
- I may even reach the point where I have an autistic shutdown, which means I'll be unable to communicate, interact or socialize.
- 2021, Carly Jones, Safeguarding Autistic Girls: Strategies for Professionals, pages 61-62:
- Their [autistic girls'] distress could come out in all sorts of ways and result in meltdown or shutdown.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:shutdown.
- 2018, Laura James, Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life, unnumbered page:
Antonyms
- startup
Derived terms
- government shutdown
Related terms
- shut down
Descendants
- → Japanese: シャットダウン (shattodaun)
- → Russian: шатда́ун (šatdáun)
Translations
action of closing
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reciprocation that renders the other person wordless
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measure during a pandemic
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Further reading
- “shutdown”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “shutdown”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “shutdown”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “shutdown” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.