| 释义 |
shut·ter
I. \ˈshəd.ə(r), -ətə-\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
1. : one that shuts
2.
a. : a usually movable cover or screen for a window or door (as to shut out the light or obstruct the view) — compare blind, jalousie, louver
b. : such a cover or screen for a picture or altarpiece
3.
a. : a mechanical device of various forms (as the rotary, iris diaphragm, or focal-plane shutter) attached to a camera to expose the film or plate by opening and closing an aperture
b. : a usually rotating element that obscures the light in the optical path of a motion-picture mechanism at a predetermined interval
4. : a removable cover, lid, or gate for closing an aperture (as the passageway through which molten iron flows from a ladle)
5. : the movable louvers in a pipe organ by which the swell box is opened and which are manipulated by means of the swell pedal
II. verb
(shuttered ; shuttered ; shuttering \-d.əriŋ, -ətər-, -ə.tr-\ ; shutters)
transitive verb
1. : to close with or by shutters
< saw us looking out the windows and came up and shuttered them — Rumer Godden >
< the gate was shuttered — Anne Green >
< during the heat of the day, houses are shuttered — American Guide Series: Florida >
2. : to close (an establishment) to business by or as if by closing shutters
< suppressed their dances, banned movies, shuttered nightclubs — Time >
< a shuttered butcher's shop — Lionel Shapiro >
3. : to close (the eyes) as if with shutters
< death in his shuttered eyes — Dorothy Hewett >
intransitive verb
1. : to close to business by or as if by closing shutters
< the bars in the village shutter at midnight — Leslie Waller >
< many operators will shutter rather than take continuous gambles — Billboard >
2. : to close as if with shutters
< eyes that shutter — too quick — when someone speaks — Jennette Yeotman > |