SHUTTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shutter mean? 

• SHUTTER (noun)
  The noun SHUTTER has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: SHUTTER used as a noun is rare.

• SHUTTER (verb)
  The verb SHUTTER has 1 sense:

1. close with shutters

  Familiarity information: SHUTTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHUTTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("shutter" is a kind of...):

mechanical device (mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles)

Holonyms ("shutter" is a part of...):

camera; photographic camera (equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other))

Derivation:

shut (move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut)

shut (become closed)

shut (prevent from entering; shut out)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A hinged blind for a window

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("shutter" is a kind of...):

blind; screen (a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shutter"):

deadlight (a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather)

jalousie (a shutter made of angled slats)

Holonyms ("shutter" is a part of...):

double-hung window (a window having two sashes that slide up and down)

Derivation:

shut (move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut)

shutter (close with shutters)

• SHUTTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they shutter    ... he / she / it shutters   
Past simple: shuttered   
Past participle: shuttered   
-ing form: shuttering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Close with shutters

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

We shuttered the window to keep the house cool

Hypernyms (to "shutter" is one way to...):

close; shut (move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They want to shutter the doors

Derivation:

shutter (a hinged blind for a window)

 Context examples 

Then he went and made open the shutters in front and walk out and in through the door, before the very eyes of the police.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I sprang out of bed and flung open the shutters.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No one could pass these shutters if they were bolted.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The shutters had been thrown back, and with a sensation of horror not to be described, I saw at the open window a figure the most hideous and abhorred.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Its former pleasant air of occupation was gone, and the shutters were half closed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He examined the lock of the safe, the door of the room, and finally the iron shutters of the window.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You remember at that date, when I called upon you in your rooms, how I put up the shutters for fear of air-guns?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rather than stay shuttered inside, as Pisces is sometimes prone to do, you’ll want to be out and about, seeing friends and attending events.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

So I up to get another bottle of liptrap, and I slipped round to the shutter that we pass the liquor through from the private bar into the parlour.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The housemaid's folding back her window-shutters at eight o'clock the next day was the sound which first roused Catherine; and she opened her eyes, wondering that they could ever have been closed, on objects of cheerfulness; her fire was already burning, and a bright morning had succeeded the tempest of the night.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)