Shutter

Definition: Shutter

Shutter

Noun

1. A mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure.

2. A hinged blind for a window.

Verb

1. Close with shutters, as of doors and windows.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shutter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Energy

Fine Arts

Physics

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Shutter

Then the shutter falls (Peg; performing artist: STEELY DAN)

Shutter Bugged Cat (1967)

The Naughty Shutter (1963)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Bunka Shutter Co., Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Suzuki Shutter Manufacturing Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Sanwa Shutter Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• BUNKA SHUTTER CO., LTD: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• SANWA SHUTTER CORP.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• The Shutter of Snow (American Literature Series) (reference)

• TOYO SHUTTER CO., LTD.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Shutter And Scream (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• MINOLTA Vectis Lens Shutter Kit (reference)

• Pentax Cable Switch F with 3.5ft electronic shutter release, for 645N/PZ's/ZX's/SF's (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Porter-Cable 14447 Shutter Pad for Use with Adhesive-Backed Rolls (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Figure 20. Horizontal shutter plankton net first invented by Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1889. Left: view of the assembled unit. Right: the messenger to trigger operation of the unit. This net would be lowered to a specified depth and then a messenger sent down the line to open it and capture drifting fauna at depth. This was first tested by Prince Albert I off Madeira in 1889. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Caption: Strip Kinetograph, Shutter Side; Ca. 1889; {23.100/9} (jpg).

Green Shutter Tea Room, Westfield, Mass., "On the Green". Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, residence on Shutter Lane, Oyster Bay Cove, Long Island. Child's room I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She went to the window shutter which was closed and put her ear to it.

The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shutter": ashford shutter ♦ Bengal shutter ♦ camera shutter ♦ rolling shutter ♦ shutter release ♦ shutter speed ♦ window shutter. Additional references.

Beginning with "shutter": shutter-release, shutter-speed.

Ending with "shutter": disaster-shutter, drop-shutter, wind-shutter.

Albanian

qepen (trapdoor), mbyllës e diafragmës, mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), kanat errësues, kanat (door), grilë (grating, grille, ironwork, lattice, lattice work, net, shade). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فلق المتجر, ‏مصراع الكاميرا, ‏مصراع النافذة, ‏مصراع (hemistich, valve), ‏قفل مصراع النافذة, ‏قفل (block out, close, confine, enclose, fastener, inclose, latch, lock, obstruct, padlock, pen, plug, shut, shut down, shut out, turn off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам кепенци на, спускам кепенците, шибър (floodgate, register, slide, target), кофраж (casing-in, centering, framework, sheeting, shuttering), кепенк, капак (bonnet, cap, cover, hood, lid, revers, top), клапа (finger-hole, flap, gate, key, pallet, register, stop, valve, vent, ventage, ventil), обтуратор, затвор (bastille, bondage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, confinement, duress, gaol, hold, jail, jug, kitty, limbo, lock, lockup, mew, pen, penitentiary, pokey, pound, prison, prison house, quod, shop, shut off, shuttle, stockade, stopper), жалузи (louvre-boards, persiennes, venetian blind). (various references)

Chinese 

百葉窗 (blind), 窗 (window), 快门. (various references)

Czech

uzávìrka (deadline, the closing date), okenice (wind-shutter), klapka (extension, key, valve), bednìní. (various references)

Danish

skodde, shutter, tavle (blackboard, comb, honey comb, honeycomb), nedblaenderkontakt, lukker (camera shutter), klapstigbord, kameralukker (camera shutter), kølerjalousi (radiator louvres, radiator shutter), jalousi (blind, jalousie, louvre, venetian blind, ventilator). (various references)

Dutch

luik (blind, Liège, porthole, skylight). (various references)

Esperanto

fenestrumo. (various references)

Farsi 

پشت پنجره , پشت دری , حاءل (Buffer, Buttress, Guard, Louver, Prop, Stanchion, Stay). (various references)

Finnish

suljin (camera shutter, closure), luukku (door, hatch), kynnysluukku, kameran suljin (camera shutter), ikkunaluukku. (various references)

French

volet, obturateur (camera shutter). (various references)

German

Fensterladen (blind, persian blind, persienne), Verschluss (breech, breechlock, catch, clash, clasp, closure, cloture, fastener, lid, lock, lockage, occlusion, seal, stopper, top), klappe (back, can it, clack, clapperboard, flap, key, leaf, lid, patch, Sidegate, strap, swat, tab, tailgate, trap, trapdoor, valve), Rolladen (roll top, roller-blind, shutters). (various references)

Greek 

παραθυρόφυλλο (casement). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�'יף חלון, לס�'ור תריס, תריס (apron, blind, gate, sluice, thyroid), רפפ�" (lattice work), צמצם (restrictor). (various references)

Hungarian

spaletta. (various references)

Italian

imposta (assessment, duty, edition, excise, imposition, impost, levy, tax), otturatore (breechblock, cutoff, valve). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

シフト�"算機構 (chaconne, chanson, chassis, chemise, Chevrolet, crisp, dish, good time to take a picture, hat, look sharp!, precise, propelling or mechanical pencil, shaggy carpet, shaman, shamanism, shark skin, sharp, sharpener, sherbet, Sherlockian, shift arithmetic unit, shining, shirring, shuffle, shuffling, shut, shutdown, shutout, shy, Siberia, simoon, simulate, simulation, simulator, vehicle with body lowered). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

シャッター . (various references)

Korean 

�"터. (various references)

Manx

jeighder (closer), dooneyder (closer, fastener, sphincter), cooylley (drop, hatch, leaf of table, sluice gate, stopcock, valve, wing, wing of door). (various references)

Pig Latin

uttershay.(various references)

Portuguese

persiana (jalousie, roller-blind, venetian, venetian blind), obturador (obturator, plug, release, thimble). (various references)

Romanian

volet, obturator (bung, obturator), oblon (window-blind), jaluzea (blind, window-blind). (various references)

Russian 

ставня, ставень (windowblinds), заслонка (cap, damper, door, flap, register, sliding, valve), затворять ставень, затвор (bibb, bolt, breech-block, gate, hatch, paddle, penstock, plug, seal, water gate), закрывать ставнями. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatvoriti poklopcem, zatvoriti kapkom, zatvarač (cover, fastener), poklopac (cap, cover, coverlid, lid, panel), kapak (lid, trapdoor), blagajničko prozorče. (various references)

Spanish

obturador (breech, breechblock, choke, choker, cloture, lock, obturator, top), contraventana. (various references)

Swedish

slutare, lucka (blank, counter, door, gap, hatch, hatchway, hiatus, hole, Lacuna, opening, scuttle, slot, wicket, window), fönsterlucka. (various references)

Thai

บานเกล็�"หน้าต่าง, ปิ�"�"้วยบานเกล็�". (various references)

Turkish

panjur (blinds, Jalousie, shade, window shade), kepenkleri kapamak (put up one's shutters), kepenk (window shutter), kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, confine, coop, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, fence in, hang up, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shut up, stop, stop up, top, turn off, turn out, wind up, wipe out), kapak (bonnet, cap, capsule, clack, cover, covering letter, dome, flap, hatch, hatchway, lid, top), fotoğraf makinesi kapağı, beton kalıbı. (various references)

Turkmen 

gabsa. (various references)

Ukrainian

віконниця, засувка (detent, fast, obex), закривати віконницями. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cửa chớp. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "shutter": shutterbug, shutterbugs, shuttered, shuttering, shutterless, shutters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shutter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chutter, Hutter, Schechter, schmutter, Schotten, Schotter, Schuettea, scutter, seuter, shitter, Shotaro, shoter, shotted, shotter, Shushtar, Shuster, Shutov, shutted, shutten, Shutty, shutzer, smutter, snutter, suter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: thrust, truest, truths, utters.

-2 letters: hurst, hurts, ruths, shute, strut, sturt, teths, trets, trues, trust, truth, usher, utter.

-3 letters: erst, eths, hers, hest, hets, hues, hurt, huts, resh, rest, rets, rhus, rues, ruse, rush, rust, ruth, ruts, sett, shut, stet, suer, suet, sure, test, teth, tets, thru, thus, tret, true, tush, tuts, user.

+1 letter: furthest, shutters, thrusted, thruster, turbeths, turpeths.

+2 letters: earthnuts, shuttered, theurgist, thrusters, untethers, usherette.

+3 letters: butterfish, drouthiest, outstretch, pothunters, shutterbug, shuttering, supertight, theurgists, thrummiest, trebuchets, ultraheats, urethritis, usherettes.

+4 letters: authorities, bitterbrush, bottlebrush, countershot, draughtiest, droughtiest, fourteenths, furthermost, haircutters, ruttishness, shutterbugs, shutterless, southeaster, southwester, thereabouts, thoroughest, troubleshot, trusteeship, turtleheads, underthrust, unworthiest, waterthrush.

+5 letters: atheromatous, autotrophies, butterfishes, butterscotch, buttonholers, countermyths, countershots, erythematous, forethoughts, outstretched, outstretches, southeastern, southeasters, southernmost, southwestern, southwesters, stepdaughter, stouthearted, superathlete, thaumaturges, therapeutics, thunderbolts, thunderstone, thunderstorm, toothbrushes, troubleshoot, trusteeships, truthfulness, underthrusts, urethritises.