shutter

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌtə(r)

Noun

shutter (plural shutters)

Blue window shutters

A focal-plane shutter

Wikipedia

Wikipedia Wikipedia

1. (usually plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
2. (photography) The part of a camera that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in during taking a picture.

Derived terms

• shutter speed

Translations

protective panels over windows

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 護窗板 (cmn), 护窗板 (cmn) (hùchuāngbǎn), 窗板 (cmn) (chuāngbǎn)

• Dutch: luik (nl) n
• Finnish: ikkunaluukku (fi)
• French: volet (fr) m
• German: Fensterladen (de) m
• Hebrew: תריס (he) (tris) m
• Hungarian: zsalu (hu), zsalugáter (hu), spaletta (hu)
• Icelandic: gluggahleri (is) m, hleri (is) m
• Italian: battente (it)

• Japanese: 雨戸 (ja) (あまど, amado)
• Macedonian: капак (mk) (kápak) m
• Maori: pihanga (mi)
• Polish: okiennica (pl) f
• Russian: ставень (ru) (stávenʹ) m
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: toccadore, battenti

  Logudorese Sardinian: importellitu, toccadore

• Scottish Gaelic: còmhla (gd) f, còmhla uinneig (gd) f
• Spanish: postigo (es) m, contraventana (es) f
• Swedish: fönsterlucka (sv) c
• Volapük: kläped (vo), fenätakläped (vo)

part of a camera

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 快門 (cmn), 快门 (cmn) (kuàimén)

• Czech: závěrka (cs) f
• Dutch: sluiter (nl) m
• Finnish: suljin (fi)
• French: obturateur (fr) m
• German: Verschluss (de) m
• Hebrew: תריס (he) (tris) m
• Icelandic: lokari (is) m

• Japanese: シャッター (ja) (shattā)
• Macedonian: затворач (mk) (zátvorač) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blender (no) m

  Nynorsk: blendar (nn) m

• Portuguese: obturador (pt) m
• Russian: затвор (ru) (zatvór) m
• Spanish: obturador (es) m
• Swedish: slutare (sv) c
• Volapük: färmüköm (vo)

Verb

shutter (third-person singular simple present shutters, present participle shuttering, simple past and past participle shuttered)

1. (transitive) To close shutters covering.

   Shutter the windows, there's a storm coming!

2. 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.

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