shutter

A panel that closes over a window to keep out light or bad weather.

• Please close the shutter.
• The house has blue shutters.
• Wind rattled the wooden shutters all night.

Common phrases: wooden shutter, window shutter, close a shutter

The part of a camera that opens briefly to let in light when you take a photograph.

• I heard the shutter click.
• A fast shutter speed helps capture movement.
• Press the shutter button gently to avoid shaking the camera.

Common phrases: shutter speed, shutter button, shutter release

To close a building or business so that it will not be used for a long time.

• They plan to shutter the factory.
• The hotel was shuttered after the summer season.
• Falling sales forced the company to shutter three stores.

Similar words: close, close down

Opposites: reopen

Common phrases: shutter a factory, shutter a business, shutter a hotel

To close the protective panels over windows.

• We shutter the windows at night.
• They shuttered the house before the storm.
• Have you shuttered every window upstairs?

Common phrases: shutter the windows, shutter a house