Meaning

One who shuts or closes something..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who shuts or closes something.
2. (usually in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
3. (photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
4. Any other opening and closing device.
5. (construction) A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
6. (transitive) To close shutters covering.
7. (transitive, figurative) To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
8. (transitive) To cancel or terminate.

Example Sentences

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[…]

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.

The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.

Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!

It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.

The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.

This company was shuttered in 2002.

Word Forms

• shutters
• shuttering
• shuttered

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Use shutter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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