单词 | shutter |
释义 | shutter (ʃʌtəʳ ) Word forms: shutters , shuttering, shuttered 1. countable noun The shutter in a camera is the part which opens to allow light through the lens when a photograph is taken. There are a few things you should check before pressing the shutter release. ...a slow shutter speed. 2. countable noun [usually plural] Shutters are wooden or metal covers fitted on the outside of a window. They can be opened to let in the light, or closed to keep out the sun or the cold. She opened the shutters and gazed out over village roofs. Synonyms: blind, screen, shade, curtain 3. verb If someone shutters a place, they close the wooden or metal covers on the outsides of the windows. They shuttered their windows against the air blowing in from the slums. [VERB noun] Synonyms: blind, screen, shade, curtain 4. verb If someone shutters a business, they close it, usually permanently. It's not easy setting up a new couture house when all around are shuttering theirs. [VERB noun] ...shuttered stores. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: blind, screen, shade, curtain Vocabulary Builder HOUSE: EXTERIOR roof chimney window aerial shutter gutter gate drainpipe gable front door garage driveway Collocations: pull down a shutter Now she's pulled down the shutters and won't discuss it. The Sun When an article appeared in a local newspaper soon after his arrival, he pulled down the shutters and refused to answer the door. Times, Sunday Times The dominoes are toppling and it seems inevitable that more commercial property funds will be pulling down the shutters in the coming days. Times, Sunday Times Ignore inflation and shares are dearer than they were before credit markets pulled down the shutters. Times, Sunday Times All schools, restaurants and nightclubs have pulled down the shutters. Times, Sunday Times The images showed how they forced open shutter doors into the basement and bored holes into the vault wall. Times, Sunday Times An hour later a convoy of vehicles gets the order to 'strike, strike, strike' and rolls up to the shuttered doors of a rundown warehouse. Times, Sunday Times From the white goose-down duvet on a king-sized bed to the pale-green shutter doors on the ample and private lanai (balcony), with its oceanview breakfast table, it's all cool refreshment. Globe and Mail The rebuilding work including removal of the windows and slam-doors, the fitting of roller shutter doors, and modernisation of the cab. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its minimum height was 20ft6 in, and it was equipped with four steel shutter fire curtains to isolate any fires in the hangar. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Blackout curtains in front of the steel shutters inside each window had caught fire from the building opposite. Times, Sunday Times Luckily, our shop front has big steel shutters so nobody ever sees what we get up to. The Sun Each steel shutter weighed one-half a ton. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The shops have been ransacked, their steel shutters ripped away. Times, Sunday Times He also approved of the old wooden shutters. Times, Sunday Times Light streams in through 6ftdeep recesses from those 19th-century windows (now unobtrusively doubleglazed), which still have original wooden shutters. Times, Sunday Times It was, however, charming, an old townhouse with massive walls, low ceilings, tiled floors, and wooden shutters. Times, Sunday Times There are wooden shutters on the windows, to be closed at night, and cameras overlooking the drive, for security. Times, Sunday Times The 700 sq metre property has high ceilings and working wooden shutters. Times, Sunday Times |
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