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shutter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃʌtɚ/ without t-flapping
  • [ˈʃʰʌ̈ɾɚ] ~ [ˈʃʰʌ̈ɾɹ̩] t-flapping
  • [ˈʃʰʌ̹tʰəː] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʃʌtəː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈʃʰʌ̈tʰɚ] ~ [ˈʃʰʌ̈tʰɹ̩] without t-flapping
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈʃʌɾɚ/ t-flapping

Etymology

From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.

Meanings

  1. One who shuts or closes something.
    • the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind 1980, Max Scheler, translated by Manfred S. Frings, Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge:
    • The volunteers consisted of a ringmaster, two experienced young cattlemen to grade the cattle, gate-openers and shutters[…] 1958, Blackwood's Magazine:
  2. (plural-normally) Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
  3. A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.
    • [T]he other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter. 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
    • ‘I can remember his body coming home, on a shutter I suppose, just as I was going down to tea […].’ 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XI, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:
  4. The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
  5. Any other opening and closing device.
    • A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment. […] A shutter, in three parts, is fitted, which when lowered completely encloses the bar. 1950 June, “New Restaurant and Buffet Cars, G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, pages 415, 416:
  6. A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
    • The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers. 1959 December 14, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
shutters Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

storm shutter · shutterspeed · shutter speed · shutter-priority · unshutter · shutter dam · shutterwise · shutterless · time shutter · shutterbug · shutter chance · shutterlike · roller shutter · shutterer · ferroelectric shutter · leaf shutter · shutter shades · shutter priority

Descendants

shutter · シャッター

Synonyms

shuttering

Translations (127)

gd còmhla uinneig (protective panels over windows) · hu zsalugáter (protective panels over windows) · gd for-uinneag (protective panels over windows) · be ваке́нніца (protective panels over windows) · fr contrevent (protective panels over windows) · ru закрыва́тельница (one who shuts or closes) · be ваке́ньніца (protective panels over windows) · bg капа́к (protective panels over windows) · fr persienne (protective panels over windows) · ru закрыва́ющая (one who shuts or closes) · cs závěrka (part of a camera) · it anta (protective panels over windows) · sc toccadore (protective panels over windows) · csb òczelnica (protective panels over windows) · be аке́ньніца (protective panels over windows) · ru закрыва́ющий (one who shuts or closes) · fi ikkunaluukku (protective panels over windows) · he תְּרִיס (part of a camera) · sh kàpak (protective panels over windows) · de Fensterladen (protective panels over windows) · nl luik (protective panels over windows) · mk ќепенок (protective panels over windows) · vi màn trập (part of a camera) · da skodde (protective panels over windows) · is gluggahleri (protective panels over windows) · gd còmhla (part of a camera) · vi cửa chắn (part of a camera) · hu zárszerkezet (part of a camera) · ko 덧문 (protective panels over windows) · bg затво́р (part of a camera) · ga comhla (ceamara) (part of a camera) · fr volet (protective panels over windows) · be аке́нніца (protective panels over windows) · pl okiennica (protective panels over windows) · pt veneziana (protective panels over windows) · ru затво́р (part of a camera) · sl zaklop (part of a camera) · it battente (protective panels over windows) · ro oblon (protective panels over windows) · sc toccadore (protective panels over windows) · ko 빈지문 (protective panels over windows) · it persiana (protective panels over windows) · sv slutare (part of a camera) · ar مِصْرَاع (part of a camera) · cmn 護窗板 /护窗板 (protective panels over windows) · lb Lued (protective panels over windows) · vi tấm chắn (part of a camera) · bg затваряч (one who shuts or closes) · sk okenica (protective panels over windows) · is lokari (part of a camera) · vo kläped (protective panels over windows) · nb vinduslem (protective panels over windows) · he תְּרִיס (protective panels over windows) · es puertaventana (protective panels over windows) · mk затворач (part of a camera) · fa شاتر (part of a camera) · be акані́ца (protective panels over windows) · nn lukkar (part of a camera) · de Verschließender (one who shuts or closes) · cmn 快門 /快门 (part of a camera) · gd còmhla chamara (part of a camera) · uk віко́нниця (protective panels over windows) · ru ста́вень (protective panels over windows) · el παραθυρόφυλλο (protective panels over windows) · is hleri (protective panels over windows) · bg кепе́нк (protective panels over windows) · vo fenätakläped (protective panels over windows) · ka დარაბა (protective panels over windows) · gd còmhla (protective panels over windows) · ga comhla (fuinneoige) (protective panels over windows) · mi kōpani (part of a camera) · uz zatvor (part of a camera) · ast postigu (protective panels over windows) · es contraventana (protective panels over windows) · el κλείστρο (part of a camera) · es postigo (protective panels over windows) · ur شٹر (part of a camera) · el παντζούρι (protective panels over windows) · bg жалузи (protective panels over windows) · ast contra (protective panels over windows) · es obturador (part of a camera) · pl migawka (part of a camera) · hu zsalu (protective panels over windows) · sh ка̀пак (protective panels over windows) · ca finestró (protective panels over windows) · ru закрыва́тель (one who shuts or closes) · vo färmüköm (part of a camera) · ko 셔터 (part of a camera) · cmn 窗板 (protective panels over windows) · fr obturateur (part of a camera) · de Verschluss (part of a camera) · fi sulkija (one who shuts or closes) · de Rollladen (protective panels over windows) · nb skodde (protective panels over windows) · it scuro (protective panels over windows) · hu zár (part of a camera) · sh затва̀ра̄ч (part of a camera) · mk капак (protective panels over windows) · ro obturator (part of a camera) · nb lukker (part of a camera) · hu spaletta (protective panels over windows) · pt obturador (part of a camera) · uk затво́р (part of a camera) · sc importellitu (protective panels over windows) · sh zatvàrāč (part of a camera) · cs okenice (protective panels over windows) · fi suljin (part of a camera) · ka საკეტი (part of a camera) · ja シャッター (part of a camera) · sk uzávierka (part of a camera) · sc battenti (protective panels over windows) · da lukke (part of a camera) · el διάφραγμα (part of a camera) · gl contra (protective panels over windows) · ast cuartarón (protective panels over windows) · nl sluiter (part of a camera) · hi शटर (part of a camera) · be затво́р (part of a camera) · mi pihanga (protective panels over windows) · de Verschließer (one who shuts or closes) · sl naoknica (protective panels over windows) · it otturatore (part of a camera) · tr obtüratör (part of a camera) · ja 雨戸 (protective panels over windows) · ca porticó (protective panels over windows) · pt postigo (protective panels over windows) · sv fönsterlucka (protective panels over windows)

shutter en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃʌtɚ/ without t-flapping
  • [ˈʃʰʌ̈ɾɚ] ~ [ˈʃʰʌ̈ɾɹ̩] t-flapping
  • [ˈʃʰʌ̹tʰəː] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʃʌtəː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈʃʰʌ̈tʰɚ] ~ [ˈʃʰʌ̈tʰɹ̩] without t-flapping
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈʃʌɾɚ/ t-flapping

Etymology

From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To close shutters covering.
    • Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
    • It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
  3. (transitive) To cancel or terminate.
    • The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.
    • It has been a dithery decade for nuclear policy. After the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, several countries began shuttering their reactors and tearing up plans for new ones. December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
    • After some additional legal wrangling, Morse, exhausted and out of money, withdrew his remaining appeals and shuttered the production in April 1883. 2015, Henry Bial, Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage, page 3:
    • This company was shuttered in 2002.
  4. To rain heavily.
    • Mollie Wilson was a teenager living with her parents in Donaghmore in Tyrone, Northern Ireland [and said this]: 3rd September [1939] When Chamberlain made his declaration of war, there was violent thunder and lightning and rain shuttered down. I had always trusted rain too. 2011 November 30, Carol Harris, Mike Brown, Blitz Diary: Life Under Fire in the Second World War, The History Press, →ISBN, page 1:
    • ... looked at the rain shuttering down outside and thought about the Fosters. He had been a perfect gentleman , although rather old and pernickety and set in his ways, but[…] 2014 July 1, Julian Symons, The Man Whose Dream Came True, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 210:
    • It's a bastard of a day, shuttering rain, but I can still shape up the hills off in the distance. 2009 February 5, Ross Raisin, God's Own Country, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
shutters Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
shuttering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shuttered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shuttered Tense=Past lexicographic