Shutter
noun
A device, such as a panel or curtain, that can be used to block light, wind, or view.
It's so hot outside, let's close the shutters.
Often appears as...
- close the shutter
- open the shutter
noun
A device in a camera that allows light to pass for a determined period, exposing photographic film or a digital sensor to light in order to capture a permanent image of a scene.
The photographer adjusted the camera's shutter speed to capture the movement.
Often appears as...
- shutter speed
- shutter button
verb
To close something, especially for a period of time or permanently. Often used to refer to businesses.
The store had to shutter its doors due to lack of business.
Often appears as...
- shutter the windows
- shutter the shop
noun
A device, such as a panel or curtain, that can be used to block light, wind, or view.
It's so hot outside, let's close the shutters.
Often appears as...
- close the shutter
- open the shutter
noun
A device in a camera that allows light to pass for a determined period, exposing photographic film or a digital sensor to light in order to capture a permanent image of a scene.
The photographer adjusted the camera's shutter speed to capture the movement.
Often appears as...
- shutter speed
- shutter button
verb
To close something, especially for a period of time or permanently. Often used to refer to businesses.
The store had to shutter its doors due to lack of business.
Often appears as...
- shutter the windows
- shutter the shop
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Multiple Forms
Shutters can be different kinds; panels, folding, rolling, or sliding.
The beach house had rolling shutters for storm protection.
Pro Tip 2/3Protective Use
Shutters often provide protection from weather or offer privacy.
During the hurricane, all the shutters were tightly closed.
Pro Tip 3/3Decorative Function
Besides function, shutters also serve as decoration for windows.
The green shutters made the windows look very pretty.
Pro Tip 1/3Multiple Forms
Shutters can be different kinds; panels, folding, rolling, or sliding.
The beach house had rolling shutters for storm protection.
Pro Tip 2/3Protective Use
Shutters often provide protection from weather or offer privacy.
During the hurricane, all the shutters were tightly closed.
Pro Tip 3/3Decorative Function
Besides function, shutters also serve as decoration for windows.
The green shutters made the windows look very pretty.
Pro Tip 1/3Multiple Forms
Shutters can be different kinds; panels, folding, rolling, or sliding.
The beach house had rolling shutters for storm protection.
Pro Tip 2/3Protective Use
Shutters often provide protection from weather or offer privacy.
During the hurricane, all the shutters were tightly closed.
Pro Tip 3/3Decorative Function
Besides function, shutters also serve as decoration for windows.
The green shutters made the windows look very pretty.
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Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...
this is one of the cleaner ones. They are actually following protocol. They have to recycle the water now by government. 70 tanneries were shuttered down by the government, but it is one of the most toxic places I've ever been in my life. This was like walking into a bottle of ammonia. My nose almost exploded when I walked in here. I mean, they are basically bathing
Video examples
Photography as...
So I don't think it's any different than photography. - So you can see your aperture. That's what your camera's doing automatically. There's only three things cameras do. So you have a sensor. You have an aperture and a shutter. That's what a camera is. - That's right, yep. - Everything with those basics. - You know, we always say art imitates life.
Video examples
A stellar history of...
and send commands from my laptop telling the telescope where to point, when to open and close the shutter, what pictures I want it to take of the universe -- all from many states away. So the way that we operate telescopes has really changed, but the questions we're trying to answer about the universe
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In search for the man...
A friend pointed out to me that all of my big stories mirrored my own, each centering on a life that had changed in an instant, owing, if not to a crash, then to an inheritance, a swing of the bat, a click of the shutter, an arrest. Each of us had a before and an after.
Video examples
Anil Seth: How your...
Who am I? Who is anyone, really? When I wake up in the morning and open my eyes, a world appears. These days, since I've hardly been anywhere, it's a very familiar there's the wardrobe beyond the end of the bed, the shuttered windows and the shrieking of seagulls,
Video examples
Working In Miniature PIPE...
leap into the air around each other shutter about a thousand frames a second and I've never seen anything like that in 25 years of wildlife filmmaking it's an incredible moment if you want to find out more take a look at our behind-the-scenes extra material
Video examples
Sean Carroll: Distant...
The universe is really big. We live in a galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy. There are about a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. And if you take a camera and you point it at a random part of the sky, and you just keep the shutter open,
Video examples
Distant time and the...
the universe is really big we live in a galaxy the Milky Way galaxy there about a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and if you take a camera and you point it at a random part of the sky and you just keep the shutter open as long
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The passing of time,...
we both had to tape our feet into position every time I clicked the shutter. I've learned so many extraordinary things doing this work. I think the two most important are patience and the power of observation.
Video examples
Every Detail PIPE Doomsday...
Batman shutters that go down over the glass for extra protection we have biological monitoring equipment rad meters chemical test kits to secure his bunker from airborne toxins
Video examples
Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...
this is one of the cleaner ones. They are actually following protocol. They have to recycle the water now by government. 70 tanneries were shuttered down by the government, but it is one of the most toxic places I've ever been in my life. This was like walking into a bottle of ammonia. My nose almost exploded when I walked in here. I mean, they are basically bathing
Video examples
Photography as...
So I don't think it's any different than photography. - So you can see your aperture. That's what your camera's doing automatically. There's only three things cameras do. So you have a sensor. You have an aperture and a shutter. That's what a camera is. - That's right, yep. - Everything with those basics. - You know, we always say art imitates life.
Video examples
A stellar history of...
and send commands from my laptop telling the telescope where to point, when to open and close the shutter, what pictures I want it to take of the universe -- all from many states away. So the way that we operate telescopes has really changed, but the questions we're trying to answer about the universe
Video examples
In search for the man...
A friend pointed out to me that all of my big stories mirrored my own, each centering on a life that had changed in an instant, owing, if not to a crash, then to an inheritance, a swing of the bat, a click of the shutter, an arrest. Each of us had a before and an after.
Video examples
Anil Seth: How your...
Who am I? Who is anyone, really? When I wake up in the morning and open my eyes, a world appears. These days, since I've hardly been anywhere, it's a very familiar there's the wardrobe beyond the end of the bed, the shuttered windows and the shrieking of seagulls,
Video examples
Working In Miniature PIPE...
leap into the air around each other shutter about a thousand frames a second and I've never seen anything like that in 25 years of wildlife filmmaking it's an incredible moment if you want to find out more take a look at our behind-the-scenes extra material
Video examples
Sean Carroll: Distant...
The universe is really big. We live in a galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy. There are about a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. And if you take a camera and you point it at a random part of the sky, and you just keep the shutter open,
Video examples
Distant time and the...
the universe is really big we live in a galaxy the Milky Way galaxy there about a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and if you take a camera and you point it at a random part of the sky and you just keep the shutter open as long
Video examples
The passing of time,...
we both had to tape our feet into position every time I clicked the shutter. I've learned so many extraordinary things doing this work. I think the two most important are patience and the power of observation.
Video examples
Every Detail PIPE Doomsday...
Batman shutters that go down over the glass for extra protection we have biological monitoring equipment rad meters chemical test kits to secure his bunker from airborne toxins
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Harold Feinstein
American Photographer
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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Mary Schmich
American Journalist
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
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Tom Perez
American Politician
Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the middle class in our community. I witnessed hope turn to hardship as a once-thriving city reckoned with a fast-changing world.
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Jean-Claude Van Damme
Belgian Actor
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
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Luther Strange
American Politician
Climate change is not an excuse for the EPA to ignore the bounds of law and issue illegal regulations that will cost jobs, shutter industries, and have little to no positive impact on the environment.
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Eve Plumb
American Actress
In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.
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Jerzy Kosinski
Polish Novelist
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
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Yousuf Karsh
Canadian Photographer
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Quote examples
Ansel Adams
American Photographer
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Quote examples
Alfred Eisenstaedt
American Photographer
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Quote examples
Harold Feinstein
American Photographer
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
Quote examples
Mary Schmich
American Journalist
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
Quote examples
Tom Perez
American Politician
Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the middle class in our community. I witnessed hope turn to hardship as a once-thriving city reckoned with a fast-changing world.
Quote examples
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Belgian Actor
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
Quote examples
Luther Strange
American Politician
Climate change is not an excuse for the EPA to ignore the bounds of law and issue illegal regulations that will cost jobs, shutter industries, and have little to no positive impact on the environment.
Quote examples
Eve Plumb
American Actress
In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.
Quote examples
Jerzy Kosinski
Polish Novelist
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
Quote examples
Yousuf Karsh
Canadian Photographer
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Quote examples
Ansel Adams
American Photographer
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Quote examples
Alfred Eisenstaedt
American Photographer
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
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