Shutter Meaning
/ˈʃʌtəː/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne who shuts or closes something.
nounEach of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
Sentence Examples
The shutter's over here. All you have to do is press it.
Hold the button down until you hear the shutter make a clicking sound.
I forgot to shutter the windows before the storm hit.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The photographer pushed the button to open the camera's ____ for a fraction of a second.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I heard the distinct click of the camera ____ as the photographer captured a candid moment of the bride.
Word Origin & History
From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind"
— 1980, 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:
"[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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The photographer pushed the button to open the camera's ____ for a fraction of a second.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I heard the distinct click of the camera ____ as the photographer captured a candid moment of the bride.