shutter
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌtə(r)
[edit] Noun
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shutter (plural shutters)
Blue window shutters
- (usually plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
- (photography) The part of a camera that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in during taking a picture.
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protective panels over windows
part of a camera
[edit] Verb
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to shutter (third-person singular simple present shutters, present participle shuttering, simple past and past participle shuttered)
- To close the shutters.
- Shutter the windows, there's a storm coming!
- 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.