shutter

[ shuht-er ]

/ ˈʃʌt ər /

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noun

a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.

a movable cover, slide, etc., for an opening.

a person or thing that shuts.

Photography. a mechanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film or the like.

verb (used with object)

to close or provide with shutters: She shuttered the windows.

to close (a store or business operations) for the day or permanently.

verb (used without object)

to close or close down: The factory has shuttered temporarily.

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Origin of shutter

First recorded in 1535–45; shut + -er¹

synonym study for shutter

1. See curtain.

OTHER WORDS FROM shutter

shut·ter·less, adjectiveun·shut·tered, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH shutter

shudder, shutter

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How to use shutter in a sentence

The taxi trundles away from the train station passing rows of gray houses with clapboard shutters into the French countryside.
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Greengrass told the quartet they had the parts at Shutters Hotel in Santa Monica.
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The light glinted strobe-like off the brick façade and the air momentarily filled with the paparazzi sound of camera shutters.
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There were four TV cameras and a few shutters clicking as Don and Dan politely pleaded innocent.
The Ballad of Johnny France|Richard Ben Cramer|January 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

On the shutters of a cosmetics store someone has written, “Pepper spray is good for the skin.”
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But, later, he grew afraid of the shadows of window-curtains and the flapping of doors and the creaking of shutters.
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The house was painted a dazzling white; the outside shutters, or jalousies, were green.
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"Put up the shutters—put up the shutters," muttered Michael, more to himself than to his clerk.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Burrage himself pasted on the shutters the paper that notified its failure.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The position of the swell shutters is brought under the control of the organist's fingers as well as his feet.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller

British Dictionary definitions for shutter

shutter

/ (ˈʃʌtə) /

noun

a hinged doorlike cover, often louvred and usually one of a pair, for closing off a window

put up the shutters to close business at the end of the day or permanently

photog an opaque shield in a camera that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second. It is either built into the lens system or lies in the focal plane of the lens (focal-plane shutter)

photog a rotating device in a film projector that permits an image to be projected onto the screen only when the film is momentarily stationary

music one of the louvred covers over the mouths of organ pipes, operated by the swell pedal

a person or thing that shuts

verb (tr)

to close with or as if with a shutter or shutters

to equip with a shutter or shutters

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shutter

Origin of shutter

synonym study for shutter

OTHER WORDS FROM shutter

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH shutter

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How to use shutter in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for shutter