Definitions for shutter

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shutter shut·ter

Spelling: [shuht-er]

IPA: /ˈʃʌt ər/

Shutter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in shutter (ehrsttu).

Definitions for shutter

noun

1. a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
2. a movable cover, slide, etc., for an opening.
3. a person or thing that shuts.
4. Photography. a mechanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film or the like.

verb (used with object)

1. to close or provide with shutters:
2. to close (a store or business operations) for the day or permanently.

verb (used without object)

1. to close or close down:

Origin of shutter

First recorded in 1535-45; shut + -er¹

Examples for shutter

The shutter was sharply drawn back from her eyes, and she saw Ruffo.

I went up to the window and looked in through a chink in the shutter.

Do they really not look around them when they hit the shutter, or is it all part of a ploy to attract more attention?

Is it too corny to think of Bailey capturing love with the click of a shutter?

So she heard the shutter click and said ‘Oh no’ and came jogging over at me.

This made the room dark and gloomy, especially since one shutter was stuck shut.

But to shutter Gitmo, he will need Congress to work with him.

Felicite, enraged, was beating a tattoo on the shutter with her impatient fingers.

The shutter had not been made fast, and I could see the banqueters and catch what they were saying.

In his 2014 State of the Union address, Obama promised to shutter the prison built on Cuban soil by the end of the year.