shutter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
business
construction
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
photography
Etymology: From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
Base: shut
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shutters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shutters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shuttering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shuttered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shuttered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who shuts or closes something.
pos: noun
examples: the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind
The volunteers consisted of a ringmaster, two experienced young cattlemen to grade the cattle, gate-openers and shutters[…]
gloss: Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
gloss: A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter.
‘I can remember his body coming home, on a shutter I suppose, just as I was going down to tea […].’
gloss: The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
pos: noun
gloss: Any other opening and closing device.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
pos: noun
examples: The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.
gloss: To close shutters covering.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
gloss: To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
gloss: To cancel or terminate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.
This company was shuttered in 2002.
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.
After some additional legal wrangling, Morse, exhausted and out of money, withdrew his remaining appeals and shuttered the production in April 1883.
gloss: To rain heavily.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
It's a bastard of a day, shuttering rain, but I can still shape up the hills off in the distance.
... looked at the rain shuttering down outside and thought about the Fosters. He had been a perfect gentleman , although rather old and pernickety and set in his ways, but[…]
Derived words: ferroelectric shutter
roller shutter
shutterbug
shutter chance
shutter dam
shutterer
shutterless
shutterlike
shutter priority
shutter-priority
shutter shades
shutter speed
shutterspeed
shutterwise
time shutter
unshutter
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