different between snapshot vs shutter

English

Etymology

snap +? shot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snæp.??t/

Noun

snapshot (plural snapshots)

1. A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.

   He carried a snapshot of his daughter.

2. A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
3. (computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.

   This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

4. (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
5. (firearms) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
   • 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman

     How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!

Derived terms

• Snapchat

Translations

Verb

snapshot (third-person singular simple present snapshots, present participle snapshotting, simple past and past participle snapshotted)

1. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
2. (transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
   • 2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)

     Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.

Translations

References

• “snapshot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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