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Shutter   /ʃˈətər/   Listen
Shutter

noun
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.
verb
1.
Close with shutters.


Shut

adjective
1.
Not open.  Synonyms: closed, unopen.  Antonym: open.
2.
Used especially of mouth or eyes.  Synonym: closed.  "His eyes were shut against the sunlight"  Antonym: open.



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"Shutter" Quotes from Famous Books



... when calling: "...I rose up at 11 o'clock to come away, saying I would put on my coat, she offer'd not to help me. I pray'd her that Juno might light me home, she open'd the shutter, and said 'twas pretty light abroad: Juno was weary and gone to bed. So I came home by star-light as ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... right!" he exclaimed, as he pressed his thumb and the door at once yielded. "Huh!" He stared into the empty passage, out of which a room opened on either hand, each hung with cast-off suits which seemed to sway slightly in the scanty light filtered through the shutter-holes. "I don't stomach moving among these. Even in broad daylight I'm never too sure there ain't a man hidden in one of 'em. He might ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... tramp of their horses' feet the warden had advanced to the grille of reconnoitre and withdrawn the small stone shutter for inspection; his head appeared behind the bars, but he wore ...
— The Royal Pawn of Venice - A Romance of Cyprus • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
... have been convinced that at that moment she heard a carriage driving up to the house; and so strong was the persuasion that she did, in spite of the almost impossibility of their being already come, that she moved into the adjoining dressing-closet and opened a window shutter, to be satisfied of the truth. She instantly saw that her ears had not deceived her. The flaring lamps of a carriage were immediately in view. By their uncertain light she thought she could discern it to ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... stay, or to fly? The decision must be instantaneous. But Raoul made it easy by crying in their common tongue, as he slammed a massive shutter and shot ...
— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable


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