different between shutter vs louver

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

• loover (archaic)
• louvre (mainly UK)
• lover (obsolete)
• luffer

Etymology

From Old French lover.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: lo?o?v?, IPA^(key): /?lu?v?/
• (General American) enPR: lo?o?v?r, IPA^(key): /?lu?v?/

Noun

louver (plural louvers)

1. A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.10:

     But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, / But with continuall candle-light […].

2. (chiefly in the plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. [from 16th c.]
3. Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.

Derived terms

• louvered, louvred

Translations

See also

• jalousie

Anagrams

• Louvre, louvre, velour

French

Etymology

louve +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu.ve/

Verb

louver

1. (transitive) to drill a hole in a stone for the attachment of a wedge

Conjugation

Related terms

• louve