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 More Synonyms of shutter
shutter in British English
(ˈʃʌtə)
noun
1.
a hinged doorlike cover, often louvred and usually one of a pair, for closing off a window
2. put up the shutters
3. photography
an opaque shield in a camera that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second. It is either built into the lens system or lies in the focal plane of the lens (focal-plane shutter)
4. photography
a rotating device in a film projector that permits an image to be projected onto the screen only when the film is momentarily stationary
5. music
one of the louvred covers over the mouths of organ pipes, operated by the swell pedal
6.
a person or thing that shuts
verb(transitive)
7.
to close with or as if with a shutter or shutters
8.
to equip with a shutter or shutters
shutter in American English
(ˈʃʌtər)
noun
1.
a person or thing that shuts
2.
a movable screen or cover for a window, usually hinged and often fitted with louvers
3.
anything used to cover an opening, as a slide or door on a lantern
4. Photography
a device that controls the duration of an exposure by opening and closing, allowing light to reach the film or plate for a specified amount of time
verb transitive
5.
to close or furnish with a shutter or shutters
Examples of 'shutter' in a sentence
shutter
The exterior is whitewashed with blue shutters and little balconies.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The stores finally pulled down the shutters at the weekend.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Wooden shutters pull back to open the entire front wall to misty mountains.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The metal shutter of his shop was ripped off by the blast.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He took pictures by pressing the shutter release with his stronger left thumb.
Aidan Hartley THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War (2003)
The camera shutters go off and it sounds like a thousand butterflies taking off.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Closed shutters and quiet streets help nobody.
The Sun (2016)
Or do you put up the shutters and hope it all blows over?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We closed the shutters and withdrew into ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Each window sprouted a flag and blue metal mesh shutter.
Charles Glass The Tribes Triumphant (2006)
The flower shop was just pulling down its shutters as we paused on double yellow lines.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
There were wooden shutters on the windows.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Being in care taught him to put up emotional shutters.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Along the main streets stood scores of shops with their metal shutters ripped aside and interiors reduced to ashes.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
You can slide off the base to replace it with a camera shutter unit with a big battery inside.
The Sun (2016)
Aislinn woke as the first gray hues of dawn were seeking their way through the shutters and lighting the room.
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
There was no hint of light behind the shutters in any of the houses as he went cautiously along the wall.
Patrick O'Brian The Catalans
Oh, but the shutters can come down fast.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The robbers first rammed the shop's closed shutters with a car before kicking and hammering their way in.
The Sun (2010)
We stayed there in an old farmhouse with thick stone walls and shutters, and silk worms in the attic.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Best, in that case, to keep the shutters down.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The main building is colonial in feel, with whitewashed walls, green shutters and turrets at all four corners.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
By the time she faced the release of camera shutters, the smartly dressed, striking young woman was completely composed.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They form the base of a gigantic pyramid of treason, stretching from the little gray house with green shutters to the towers of the Kremlin.
Kovel, Joel Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America (1994)
Word lists with
shutter
camera
All related terms of 'shutter'
disc shutter
a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
shutter speed
the nominal time that shutter is open for at a particular setting
rotary shutter
a camera shutter consisting of a rotating disk pierced with a slit that passes in front of a lens to expose the film or plate
shutter release
the button on a camera that you press to make the shutter open
shutter priority
an automatic exposure system in which the photographer selects the shutter speed and the camera then automatically sets the correct aperture
focal plane shutter
an opaque shield in a camera , lying in the focal plane of the lens , that, when tripped , admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
delayed-action shutter
a camera shutter that opens after an interval set by the photographer
Chinese translation of 'shutter'
shutter
(ˈʃʌtəʳ)
n(c)
(on window) 百叶(葉)窗 (bǎiyèchuāng)
(on camera) 快门(門) (kuàimén) (个(個), gè)
Nearby words of
shutter
shut out
shut up
shut up!
shutter
shuttle
shuttlecock
shy
(noun)
Definition
a hinged doorlike cover, usually one of a pair, for closing off a window
She opened the shutters and gazed out over roofs.
Synonyms
blind
Hang the blind straight.
screen
They put a screen in front of me.
shade
She left the shades down and the lights off.
curtain
a curtain of cigarette smoke
canopy
The dais is covered with a silk brocade canopy.
louvre
Additional synonyms
in the sense of canopy
Definition
a rooflike covering over an altar, niche, or door
The dais is covered with a silk brocade canopy.
Synonyms
awning,
tester,
covering,
shade,
shelter,
sunshade,
baldachin
in the sense of curtain
Definition
something forming a barrier or screen
a curtain of cigarette smoke
Synonyms
screen,
veil,
shroud,
pall
in the sense of screen
Definition
a light movable frame, panel, or partition used to shelter, divide, or conceal