shutter /ˈʃʌtəː/noun 6verb 4forms 3 noun6 •[usually plural] a cover of wood or metal at a window, moved across the glass to stop light coming in •A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.[T]he other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter. — 1843 •The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture. •Any other opening and closing device.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 •A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers. — 1959 •One who shuts or closes something.the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind — 1980 verb4 •To close shutters covering.Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming! •To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended. •To cancel or terminate.The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.This company was shuttered in 2002. •To rain heavily.It's a bastard of a day, shuttering rain, but I can still shape up the hills off in the distance. — 2009 formsshuttered · shuttering · shutters
