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Definition of shutter in English:

shutter

noun ˈʃʌtəˈʃədər
  • 1Each of a pair of hinged panels fixed inside or outside a window that can be closed for security or privacy or to keep out the light.

    he threw open the shutters to let in air and light
    painted wooden shutters
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As he already had an alarm system, window and door shutters plus several heavy security doors, I would have thought he had provided adequate security arrangements already.
    • The master bedroom has an attractive bay window facing out on the street, with original wooden shutters for privacy.
    • I almost fell out of the window when one of the shutters came off its hinges.
    • Outside, rain pattered against the sides of the wooden house and shutters to the windows, and Lon loathed joining the horrid weather, but had no other choice.
    • Stylish wood window shutter panels with operable louvers offer privacy as well as control over the amount of light that enters a room.
    • Decorated in pastel colours, the bedrooms retain many period features including wooden ceilings, window shutters and original doors with metal latches.
    • A pair of windows with wooden shutters allows for a good deal of incoming light.
    • The room is done up in the old colonial style, complete with red stained wooden floors, four poster bed, wooden shutters for windows and so on.
    • It was a room of narrow but long shape, with two glassless windows with wooden shutters.
    • Both rooms have pale yellow walls and white ceilings and each has an original window with wooden shutters, overlooking the gardens.
    • Despite having an alarm system, window and door shutters, plus several heavy security doors, thieves still managed to break into his shop on Saturday.
    • It appears that a thief, described as a drunk male wearing a combat jacket, used a crowbar to prise open the security shutter before smashing the window.
    • I ran to the wooden shutters covering the windows by the door.
    • The old wooden window shutters in this area have been retained and are in good condition.
    • There were two doors, both seemingly exiting to the outside, and two windows that were covered on the inside by primitive wooden shutters.
    • The house has 220 square metres of space and includes a number of period features such as fireplaces, window shutters and wooden floors.
    • The other two bedrooms are at the front of the house and have the original window shutters for added privacy.
    • He threw open the shutters of two windows to reveal a simple and slightly dilapidated room with a stone fireplace built out from one wall, and furnished only with two wooden cots and a bench.
    • There are charmingly rickety old-style shutters on both the inside and outside of the long tall windows and large mirrored floor-to-ceiling wardrobes add to the sense of space.
    • The timber casement windows are new, but much of the interior wood is original including the window shutters and some panelled doors.
    Synonyms
    screen, louvre, blind, roller blind, venetian blind, curtain, shade, awning, canopy
    French jalousie, persiennes
  • 2Photography
    A device that opens and closes to expose the film in a camera.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In order to prevent the image from being blurry, Cassini actually had to rotate while the camera shutter was open in order to maintain her pointing at Phoebe.
    • When the shutter of your camera opens for that fraction of a second, photons of light stream in and strike the silver halide grains suspended in the gelatin emulsion.
    • Arbus focused her camera and triggered the shutter.
    • The camera shutter was open for 8 m sec per frame to avoid motion blur of the particles.
    • Even with your camera on top of a tripod, if you only use your finger to keep the shutter open, you run the risk of camera movement.
  • 3Music
    The blind enclosing the swell box in an organ, used for controlling the volume of sound.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Organ mountings are considered, but not painted organ shutters.
verb ˈʃʌtəˈʃədər
[with object]
  • 1Close the shutters of (a window or building)

    the windows were shuttered against the afternoon heat
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Its windows were shuttered, so that no one could see into the court from outside.
    • Both have original marble fireplaces, shuttered sash windows and high ceilings with elaborate plasterwork.
    • To the left the drawing room is a bright area with two shuttered sash windows overlooking the front garden and a fine marble fireplace.
    • In the palm groves where one might expect temples and adobe villages, there are whitewashed churches and old villas with genteel balconies and shuttered windows.
    • Another double bedroom, again with original wooden floors, a marble fireplace and shuttered sash window, completes the accommodation at this level.
    • Restaurants, hotels and even bars closed their doors and shuttered their windows.
    • All the shops are shuttered, all the windows closed.
    • High white washed interior walls dotted with tiny shuttered windows lean into the centre of the stage and a scrubbed floors lopes up and back to the rarely opened door.
    • It has two reception rooms including a living room has with an original shuttered sash window, cast-iron fireplace with tiled inset and black slate surround, timber floorboards and ceiling plasterwork.
    • The roof was flat, and all the windows were shuttered tightly closed.
    • Jakartans also poured into shopping malls, many of which remained open on the holiday, although several shops in some of the buildings were shuttered.
    • In typical Victorian style, each house has two interconnecting reception rooms at hall level, both with original shuttered sash windows and folding double doors.
    • It retains its original wooden floor and period fireplace, and overlooks St Alban's Road through shuttered windows.
    • I glanced around, at the musty bookshelves and shuttered windows.
    • Each item of furniture was draped in white sheets and the windows were shuttered.
    • Close the doors, shutter the windows, send them all home.
    • At the moment, the owners are using the largest bedroom as a first floor drawing room which spans the width of the house and includes two shuttered windows and a cast iron fireplace.
    • Both have impressive white marble fireplaces as well as timber flooring, cornices, centre roses and shuttered sash windows.
    • At the time they say they were told that although the windows were shuttered, there were four ceiling fans.
    • All he could hear was his own breathing and the clatter of his shoes on the rough plank floors as he ran around the tower, shuttering the windows.
    1. 1.1North American Close (a business)
      the city was gripped by economic forces that were squeezing its tax base and shuttering its factories
      an additional dozen stores will be shuttered when their leases expire next year
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Rural vegetable farmers lost critical markets including the New Orleans' Crescent City Farmers Market, shuttered for at least six months.
      • Right there on Main Street, pretty much all the businesses shuttered and boarded up.
      • It is shuttering several of its content-related businesses, laying off 8% of its staff, and took a staggering charge of $3.4 billion in the process.
      • When the banking scandals hit a few years later, the gallery was shuttered and Salvestrini was out of a job.
      • Restrictions on shuttering older less productive plants, or capacity that is simply no longer needed to support production requirements.
      • Zhuk doesn't want to shutter the business, but also wants to act as ethically as possible.
      • Like the farm towns farther upstream, the fishing communities on this stretch of coast are dotted with ‘For Sale’ signs and shuttered family businesses.
      • ‘We see our factories closing, the doors of our storefronts shuttered,’ he added later.
      • Word is that Brill will be shuttering Inside.com as a free site next month and making it subscription only.
      • It reopened briefly as the Budapest Bakery, but when that closed in '89, the building was shuttered for good.

Phrases

  • put up the shutters

    • (of a business) cease trading for the day or permanently.

      the village Post Office put up the shutters for the last time
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Cleo and Denis Hourihan will put up the shutters next Wednesday lunchtime, after six years at the High Street post office, and will move into their retirement bungalow in Shrewton.
      • In the winter, he closed some of the retail stores and even shuttered the tavern, bringing year-round headcount to 50.
      • Siddique even found the time to wink for the Telegraph & Argus during a clinch as Nesbitt put up the shutters once again.
      • We have to adapt to these economic developments, not by putting up the shutters, but by managing, controlling and selecting.
      • Others, however, are putting up the shutters - ten per cent of private-sector final salary schemes closed to new members in the past 12 months.

Derivatives

  • shuttered

  • adjective ˈʃʌtədˈʃədərd
    • 1(of a window or building) having closed shutters.

      visitors are met with rows of shuttered shops and boarded-up restaurants
      Example sentencesExamples
      • figurative his smile fades, seeing her shuttered expression
      • each house is a work of art, with elegant balconies and railings, ornate shuttered windows, and complex tiled roofs
      • in combination lean out of your blue-shuttered windows and watch the world go by
    • 2(of a window) fitted with shutters.

  • shutterless

  • adjective
    • The streaks below Polaris in these images are due to the fact that the camera is shutterless.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She wrapped the blankets more tightly around herself, staring morosely out the open, shutterless window of the hayloft where she slept.
      • Consists of new software features and ease-of-use improvements as well as a new shutterless, high-performance camera, which provides increased sensitivity and reliability

Rhymes

abutter, aflutter, butter, Calcutta, clutter, constructor, cutter, declutter, flutter, gutter, mutter, nutter, scutter, splutter, sputter, strutter, stutter, utter
 
 

Definition of shutter in US English:

shutter

nounˈSHədərˈʃədər
  • 1Each of a pair of hinged panels, often louvered, fixed inside or outside a window that can be closed for security or privacy or to keep out light.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The old wooden window shutters in this area have been retained and are in good condition.
    • A pair of windows with wooden shutters allows for a good deal of incoming light.
    • There were two doors, both seemingly exiting to the outside, and two windows that were covered on the inside by primitive wooden shutters.
    • The house has 220 square metres of space and includes a number of period features such as fireplaces, window shutters and wooden floors.
    • The timber casement windows are new, but much of the interior wood is original including the window shutters and some panelled doors.
    • He threw open the shutters of two windows to reveal a simple and slightly dilapidated room with a stone fireplace built out from one wall, and furnished only with two wooden cots and a bench.
    • As he already had an alarm system, window and door shutters plus several heavy security doors, I would have thought he had provided adequate security arrangements already.
    • Both rooms have pale yellow walls and white ceilings and each has an original window with wooden shutters, overlooking the gardens.
    • The other two bedrooms are at the front of the house and have the original window shutters for added privacy.
    • I ran to the wooden shutters covering the windows by the door.
    • The room is done up in the old colonial style, complete with red stained wooden floors, four poster bed, wooden shutters for windows and so on.
    • The master bedroom has an attractive bay window facing out on the street, with original wooden shutters for privacy.
    • It appears that a thief, described as a drunk male wearing a combat jacket, used a crowbar to prise open the security shutter before smashing the window.
    • It was a room of narrow but long shape, with two glassless windows with wooden shutters.
    • Decorated in pastel colours, the bedrooms retain many period features including wooden ceilings, window shutters and original doors with metal latches.
    • Stylish wood window shutter panels with operable louvers offer privacy as well as control over the amount of light that enters a room.
    • I almost fell out of the window when one of the shutters came off its hinges.
    • There are charmingly rickety old-style shutters on both the inside and outside of the long tall windows and large mirrored floor-to-ceiling wardrobes add to the sense of space.
    • Despite having an alarm system, window and door shutters, plus several heavy security doors, thieves still managed to break into his shop on Saturday.
    • Outside, rain pattered against the sides of the wooden house and shutters to the windows, and Lon loathed joining the horrid weather, but had no other choice.
    Synonyms
    screen, louvre, blind, roller blind, venetian blind, curtain, shade, awning, canopy
  • 2Photography
    A device that opens and closes to expose the film in a camera.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In order to prevent the image from being blurry, Cassini actually had to rotate while the camera shutter was open in order to maintain her pointing at Phoebe.
    • The camera shutter was open for 8 m sec per frame to avoid motion blur of the particles.
    • When the shutter of your camera opens for that fraction of a second, photons of light stream in and strike the silver halide grains suspended in the gelatin emulsion.
    • Arbus focused her camera and triggered the shutter.
    • Even with your camera on top of a tripod, if you only use your finger to keep the shutter open, you run the risk of camera movement.
  • 3Music
    The blind enclosing the swell box in an organ, used for controlling the volume of sound.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Organ mountings are considered, but not painted organ shutters.
verbˈSHədərˈʃədər
[with object]
  • 1Close the shutters of (a window or building)

    the windows were shuttered against the afternoon heat
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both have impressive white marble fireplaces as well as timber flooring, cornices, centre roses and shuttered sash windows.
    • Its windows were shuttered, so that no one could see into the court from outside.
    • Each item of furniture was draped in white sheets and the windows were shuttered.
    • Close the doors, shutter the windows, send them all home.
    • At the moment, the owners are using the largest bedroom as a first floor drawing room which spans the width of the house and includes two shuttered windows and a cast iron fireplace.
    • The roof was flat, and all the windows were shuttered tightly closed.
    • It has two reception rooms including a living room has with an original shuttered sash window, cast-iron fireplace with tiled inset and black slate surround, timber floorboards and ceiling plasterwork.
    • In typical Victorian style, each house has two interconnecting reception rooms at hall level, both with original shuttered sash windows and folding double doors.
    • It retains its original wooden floor and period fireplace, and overlooks St Alban's Road through shuttered windows.
    • Restaurants, hotels and even bars closed their doors and shuttered their windows.
    • All he could hear was his own breathing and the clatter of his shoes on the rough plank floors as he ran around the tower, shuttering the windows.
    • All the shops are shuttered, all the windows closed.
    • Both have original marble fireplaces, shuttered sash windows and high ceilings with elaborate plasterwork.
    • High white washed interior walls dotted with tiny shuttered windows lean into the centre of the stage and a scrubbed floors lopes up and back to the rarely opened door.
    • In the palm groves where one might expect temples and adobe villages, there are whitewashed churches and old villas with genteel balconies and shuttered windows.
    • At the time they say they were told that although the windows were shuttered, there were four ceiling fans.
    • Another double bedroom, again with original wooden floors, a marble fireplace and shuttered sash window, completes the accommodation at this level.
    • To the left the drawing room is a bright area with two shuttered sash windows overlooking the front garden and a fine marble fireplace.
    • Jakartans also poured into shopping malls, many of which remained open on the holiday, although several shops in some of the buildings were shuttered.
    • I glanced around, at the musty bookshelves and shuttered windows.
    1. 1.1North American Close (a business)
      the city was gripped by economic forces that were squeezing its tax base and shuttering its factories
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like the farm towns farther upstream, the fishing communities on this stretch of coast are dotted with ‘For Sale’ signs and shuttered family businesses.
      • It is shuttering several of its content-related businesses, laying off 8% of its staff, and took a staggering charge of $3.4 billion in the process.
      • Zhuk doesn't want to shutter the business, but also wants to act as ethically as possible.
      • It reopened briefly as the Budapest Bakery, but when that closed in '89, the building was shuttered for good.
      • Restrictions on shuttering older less productive plants, or capacity that is simply no longer needed to support production requirements.
      • Rural vegetable farmers lost critical markets including the New Orleans' Crescent City Farmers Market, shuttered for at least six months.
      • When the banking scandals hit a few years later, the gallery was shuttered and Salvestrini was out of a job.
      • Word is that Brill will be shuttering Inside.com as a free site next month and making it subscription only.
      • Right there on Main Street, pretty much all the businesses shuttered and boarded up.
      • ‘We see our factories closing, the doors of our storefronts shuttered,’ he added later.
 
 
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