shutter
/ˈʃʌtəː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
noun
A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.
noun
The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
Example Sentences
- "the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind"
- "The volunteers consisted of a ringmaster, two experienced young cattlemen to grade the cattle, gate-openers and shutters[…]"
- "[T]he other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter."
- "‘I can remember his body coming home, on a shutter I suppose, just as I was going down to tea […].’"
- "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."
- "The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈʃʌtəː/