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shutter
[ shuht-er ]
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.
shutter
/ ˈʃʌtə /
noun
- a hinged doorlike cover, often louvred and usually one of a pair, for closing off a window
- put up the shuttersto 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
- to close with or as if with a shutter or shutters
- to equip with a shutter or shutters
Other Words From
- shutter·less adjective
- un·shuttered adjective
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Example Sentences
Unemployment was still very high and businesses were shuttered so he wanted them open immediately, whether people would die or not.
In Sudan, for example, the freeze in humanitarian assistance has led to the shuttering of over 1,100 communal kitchens set up to help those left destitute by the country's ongoing civil war.
He proposed taxing window shutters, rationing candles and having church bells ring at sunrise, and “if need be, have cannons fired in every street to open the eyes of lazy people.”
Sales tax revenues will be down due to shuttered businesses.
Cruise, which was shuttered by General Motors after causing serious injury to a pedestrian, had its permit suspended.
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