shutter

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈʃʌtəː/|[ˈʃʰʌ̹tʰəː]   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who shuts or closes something.
    — the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind
  2. Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light. plural-normally
  3. A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.
    — [T]he other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter.
  4. The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
  5. Any other opening and closing device.
    — 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.
  6. A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
    — The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.
动词 v.
  1. To close shutters covering. transitive
    — Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
  2. To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy. figuratively,transitive
    — It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
  3. To cancel or terminate. transitive
    — The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.
  4. To rain heavily.
    — Mollie Wilson was a teenager living with her parents in Donaghmore in Tyrone, Northern Ireland [and said this]: 3rd September [1939] When Chamberlain made his declaration of war, there was violent thunder and lightning and rain shuttered down. I had always trusted rain too.

词形变化

shutters plural shutters present,singular,third-person shuttering participle,present shuttered participle,past shuttered past

词源

词源 1
From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
词源 2
From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
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