[
US
/ˈʃətɝ/
]
[ UK /ʃˈʌtɐ/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈʌtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a hinged blind for a window
- a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure
VERB
-
close with shutters
We shuttered the window to keep the house cool
How To Use shutter In A Sentence
- He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter.
- Finally met Judith "with the blue shutters": the American to whom the villagers have been trying to introduce me, going as far as to give me directions to her house "avec les volets bleus". Péquenaud - French Word-A-Day
- The camera has a 32mm glass lens, and its automatic shutter allows you to take photos in near-darkness without a flash.
- Both ads use the same stock video of Cofield walking forlornly alongside her shuttered brake-pad production facility. Strickland goes negative in first campaign ad
- Opening the shutters to the world may also have exacted a price. Times, Sunday Times
- The viewfinder has information regarding the shutter speed, focus, exposure compensation and flash mark.
- ‘Then make two lefts and I'm the ranch house with the blue shutters,’ he explained.
- He took pictures by pressing the shutter release with his stronger left thumb. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
- Nowadays tunnels are mainly lined with concrete segments or with concrete pumped in between the excavated ground and internal shuttering.
- With stage shutters open to reveal a large drawing-room extending upstage, the partygoers are grouped around different card tables and involved in their card games.