shutter
Syllables: shut·ter/ˈʃʌtɚ/UK/ˈʃʌtəː/
shutter noun: one who shuts or closes something.
Noun
shutter (plural shutters)
- One who shuts or closes something.
- the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind1980, 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
- Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
- 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
- The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
- 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
- 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, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866
- Synonyms:
- shuttering
Verb
shutter (third-person singular simple present shutters, present participle shuttering, simple past and past participle shuttered)
- To close shutters covering.
- 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.
- To cancel or terminate.
- The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.
- This company was shuttered in 2002.
- 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
- 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
Proper noun capitalized: Shutter
Shutter (plural Shutters)
- A surname.
shutter meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
shutter in Hindi
- part of a camera
- शटर śaṭar
shutter in Tamil
- அடைப்புப்பலகை, நழுவடைப்புச் சட்டம், சார்த்தி, படல்
shutter in Marathi
- शटर, शॉटर
shutter in Urdu
- part of a camera
- شٹر śaṭar
More languagesFewer languages
- shutter in Bengali
- ঝাঁপ, জানালার পাল্লা, ক্যামেরার শাটার
- shutter in Telugu
- షట్టర్, షటర్, షట్టరు
- shutter in Malayalam
- അടയ്ക്കുന്നവൻ, അടപ്പ്, കതക്, അടയ്ക്കുന്ന വസ്തു
- shutter in Kannada
- ಕದ
- shutter in Punjabi
- ਸ਼ਟਰ, ਸ਼ੱਟਰ
- shutter in Gujarati
- કમાડ kamāṛ
- shutter in Odia
- ଶଟର୍, ଶଟର
- shutter in Nepali
- शटर
- shutter in Arabic
- مِصْرَاع miṣrāʕ
- shutter in Persian
- شاتر šâtar
- shutter in Vietnamese
- tấm chắn, cửa chắn, màn trập
Examples of shutter in a sentence
- 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:
- ... looked at the rain shuttering down outside and thought about the Fosters.2014 July 1, Julian Symons, The Man Whose Dream Came True, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 210:
Synonyms of shutter
Forms of shutter
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | shutters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | shutters |
| present participle | shuttering |
| past participle | shuttered |
| past | shuttered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Shutters |
Origin of shutter
From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
Two main origins: * Occupational surname for a marksman, from an agent derivative of Middle English shoten (“to shoot”). * An Americanized spelling of Schutter.
Words formed from shutter
Phrases with shutter
Words that rhyme with shutter
Questions about shutter
- What does shutter mean?
- Shutter means one who shuts or closes something.
- What is shutter in Hindi?
- Shutter in Hindi is शटर (śaṭar). See Shutter meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use shutter in a sentence?
- After the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, several countries began shuttering their reactors and tearing up plans for new ones.
- What part of speech is shutter?
- Shutter can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce shutter?
- Shutter is pronounced /ˈʃʌtəː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of shutter?
- The plural of shutter is shutters.
Words near shutter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shutter (page history and authors); Shutter (page history and authors); shutter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shutter (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shutter (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shutter (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shutter (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shutter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shutter (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); કમાડ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); shutter (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shutter (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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