Shutters

Word SHUTTERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Shutters"

What do we mean by shutters?

One who shuts or closes something.

(usually in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.

The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.

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The word "shutters" in example sentences

One of the window shutters is partly ajar; when the wind picks up it takes to banging against the sill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We have hurricane glass now, so my major per-hurricane activity of putting up metal shutters is a thing of the past. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The strobes keep flashing; the shutters are a din of clicking. ❋ Todd Strasser (2011)

Next to the weaver's shop was a cabinet-maker's, and there the shutters were a light brown. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2001)

On the outside of the shutters are the angel Gabriel and ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)

All the shops fast asleep, with their eyelids closed, that is, their shutters up, all except one establishment, garishly lighted and of defiantly rakish, appearance, with the words ❋ Various (N/A)

And it is certain that to be off upon a journey with a rucksack strapped upon you at an hour when the butcher boy takes down his shutters is a high pleasure. ❋ Fritz August Gottfried Endell (1906)

In this quarter, on the polling-day, the police were in strong force, and the liquor-shops were all closed -- that is, the shutters of those dens of iniquity were up; but as the doors were open there was no difficulty in obtaining strong drink. ❋ Unknown (1864)

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick room or a bedroom there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited, though the air had never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air, of air i.e. unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays. ❋ Unknown (1860)

At the first corner of the latter stands a small semi-castellated edifice, with the colours of the canton on the window-shutters, which is now in some way occupied for public purposes, and which formerly was the residence of the bailli, or the local governor that Berne formerly sent to rule them in the name of the Burgerschaft. ❋ Cooper, J Fenimore (1836)

Portello plant workers made electric cookers, metal furniture, doors, windows and shutters - in other words, the materials needed to rebuild a broken country. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some of the crew kind of shutters when I say that. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But are these the kind of shutters you're talking about? ❋ Unknown (2005)

The McKay twins were romping over from a near-by playhouse, a little tepee made of cast off "shutters" the janitor had put outside after wrenching them from hinges, and the girls had promptly availed themselves of the material for a most attractive playhouse. ❋ Lilian Garis (1913)

There is space above the shutters which is open to the ceiling. ❋ Unknown (1886)

Instead of sash containing panes of glass, the windows, which were merely square apertures, were provided with "shutters," hung with strap ❋ Unknown (1880)

Those little "shutters" are actually called "microshutters" and they are tiny doorways that focus the attention of the infrared camera on specific targets to the exclusion of others. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And though they're called "shutters," most don't shut. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But these days, and we really do hate saying this, it's pressing our morbid curiosity button with all of the "shutters" going on in SF Take, for example, today's roundup of restaurant industry deaths, which include Atrium, ❋ Unknown (2009)

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