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How to pronounce shutter in English?

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Type Words
Type of blind, screen
Has types deadlight, jalousie
Derivation shut
Type Words
Type of mechanical device
Derivation shut
Type Words
Type of close, shut


We shuttered the window to keep the house cool.

Examples of shutter

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All stores currently on the closure list are expected to shutter by month's end.
From the stltoday.com
The utility will shutter the No. 4 and No. 5 reactors at the plant, Mizuno said.
From the suntimes.com
One man, an Afghan father of three, stuck out his tongue as the shutter clicked.
From the sacbee.com
He locked up, pulled down the shutter and took his family to a first-floor flat.
From the independent.co.uk
The space has a coastal feel with blue and brown and some shutter-style accents.
From the dailyherald.com
This month, the company announced that it will shutter three of its four plants.
From the dailyherald.com
If the shutter closed too soon, underexposure took place and the line was black.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Thankfully, the power and shutter-snap buttons on the top right are much larger.
From the businessweek.com
Ugh, I shutter when I think about what a slave to calorie counting I used to be.
From the edeneatseverything.com
More examples
  • A mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure
  • Close with shutters; "We shuttered the window to keep the house cool"
  • A hinged blind for a window
  • Shutter (Thai: u0E0Au0E31u0E15u0E40u0E15u0E2Du0E23u0E4C u0E01u0E14u0E15u0E34u0E14u0E27u0E34u0E0Du0E0Du0E32u0E13) is a 2004 Thai horror film by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom; starring Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, and Achita Sikamana. It focuses on mysterious images seen in developed pictures.
  • Shutter is a 2008 American remake of the 2004 Thai horror film of the same name. The remake was directed by Masayuki Ochiai, and was released on March 21, 2008. .
  • In photography, a shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene. ...
  • (Shuttering) A window shutter is a solid and stable window covering usually consisting of a frame of vertical stiles and horizontal rails (top, center and bottom). ...
  • Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light; The part of a camera that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in during taking a picture; To close the shutters; To close up a building for a prolonged period of inoccupancy
  • (Shuttered) When a mall is boarded up.