# shutter
## English
### Etymology

From shut +‎ -er. Compare shuttle.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈʃʌt.ə/
* (US) IPA: /ˈʃʌt.ɚ/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Homophone: shudder (accents with flapping)
* Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)

### Noun

shutter (plural shutters)
* One who shuts or closes something.
** 1980, Max Scheler, translated by Manfred S. Frings, Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge:the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind
** 1958, Blackwood's Magazine:The volunteers consisted of a ringmaster, two experienced young cattlemen to grade the cattle, gate-openers and shutters […]
* (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 when taking a picture.
* Any other opening and closing device.
** 1950 June, “New Restaurant and Buffet Cars, G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, pages 415, 416: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.

#### Derived terms

* ferroelectric shutter
* roller shutter
* shutter chance
* shutter dam
* shutter-priority
* shutter priority
* shutter shades
* shutter speed
* time shutter

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: shutter
* → Japanese: シャッター (shattā)

#### Translations
### 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!
* (transitive, figurative) 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.
* (transitive) To cancel or terminate.
    The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.
** December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian‎:It has been a dithery decade for nuclear policy. After the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, several countries began shuttering their reactors and tearing up plans for new ones.
** 2015, Henry Bial, Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage, page 3:After some additional legal wrangling, Morse, exhausted and out of money, withdrew his remaining appeals and shuttered the production in April 1883.

### Further reading

* shutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* window shutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* shutter (photography) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Hutters, hurtest, hutters

## Dutch
### Etymology

From English shutter.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

shutter m or f (plural shutters, diminutive shuttertje n)
* (Suriname) a glass or acrylic slat, a window pane of a jalousie window or louvered window
* (Suriname, chiefly in the plural) a jalousie window, a louvered window (a window consisting of parallel glass or acrylic slats that can be opened and closed by tilting them simultaneously using a crank or lever)

#### Derived terms

* shutterboom