shutter

1. 1.

   close with shutters

   “We shuttered the window to keep the house cool”

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Other forms of shutter

plural

shutters·

past tense

shutterred·

present participle

shutterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shutter

What does shutter mean?

shutter means "a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shutter?

shutter has 2 syllables: shut-ter. The stress falls on "shut". In IPA it is /ˈʃʌtɚ/.

Is shutter a common word?

shutter is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.