Shutter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who shuts or closes something.

   “the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind”

2. isim Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
3. isim 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. isim The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
5. isim 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. isim 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.”

7. fiil To close shutters covering.

   “Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!”

8. fiil To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.

   “It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.”

9. fiil To cancel or terminate.

   “The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.”

10. fiil 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.”

11. özel isim A surname.