different between shutter vs deadlight

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???t?/, [?????]
  • Homophone: shudder
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

shutter (plural shutters)

1. One who shuts or closes something.
   • 1980, Max Scheler, Manfred S. Frings (translator), Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge

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

   • 1958, Blackwood's Magazine

     The volunteers consisted of a ringmaster, two experienced young cattlemen to grade the cattle, gate-openers and shutters […]

2. (usually in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
3. (photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (shatt?)

Translations

Verb

shutter (third-person singular simple present shutters, present participle shuttering, simple past and past participle shuttered)

1. (transitive) To close shutters covering.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.

3. (transitive) To cancel or terminate.
   • 2015, Henry Bial, Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage (page 3)

     After some additional legal wrangling, Morse, exhausted and out of money, withdrew his remaining appeals and shuttered the production in April 1883.

Further reading

• shutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• window shutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• shutter (photography) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hutters, hurtest, hutters

English

Alternative forms

• dead-light, dead light

Etymology

dead +? light

Noun

deadlight (plural deadlights)

1. (nautical) A strong (often wooden) shutter fitted over a porthole, that can be closed in bad weather to keep water out and discourage the glass windows from breaking.
2. (nautical) A deck prism, a device to allow light into the cabin of boat through the deck.
3. (figuratively) An eyelid.