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Webster 1913 Edition
Shutter
Shut′ter
,Noun.
1.
One who shuts or closes.
2.
A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.
3.
A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Shutter
SHUT'TER
,Noun.
1. A person that shuts or closes.
2. A door; a cover; something that closes a passage; as the shutters of a window.
Definition 2024
shutter
shutter
English
Noun
shutter (plural shutters)
Blue window shutters
- One who shuts or closes something.
- Max Beerbohm
- […] it would be very difficult to pack this drawing in such a way that it would be sure not to be injured by the frantic fingers of the openers and shutters.
- Max Beerbohm
- (usually in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
- (photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in during taking a picture.
Derived terms
Translations
protective panels over windows
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part of a camera
Verb
shutter (third-person singular simple present shutters, present participle shuttering, simple past and past participle shuttered)
- (transitive) To close shutters covering.
- Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
- (figuratively) To close up (a building or an operation) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
- It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
- The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.