What part of speech is shutter?

Shutter can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. shutter is a verb, present, 1st person singular of shutter (infinitive).
  • 2. shutter is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. shutter is a noun, singular of shutters.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does shutter mean?

Definitions

Verb

shutter - close with shutters; "We shuttered the window to keep the house cool"

Noun

shutter - a hinged blind for a window
shutter - a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure

Examples of shutter

#   Sentence  
1. noun The shutter's over here. All you have to do is press it.
2. noun Hold the button down until you hear the shutter make a clicking sound.
3. noun What a home! The place looked like some disused rag-store. The large unglazed window was closed up by a dilapidated shutter.
4. noun The camera has a split-second shutter time lag of just 0.05 s.
5. noun Open the shutter.
6. noun The shutter is broken.
7. noun You don't even know how to use a digital camera? How mechanically illiterate can you be? All you need to do is press the shutter.
8. verb I forgot to shutter the windows before the storm hit.
9. verb Hospitals in the towns of Lodi and Cremona last week were so packed that they had to shutter their emergency rooms and send patients elsewhere.
Sentence  
noun
The shutter's over here. All you have to do is press it.
Hold the button down until you hear the shutter make a clicking sound.
What a home! The place looked like some disused rag-store. The large unglazed window was closed up by a dilapidated shutter.
The camera has a split-second shutter time lag of just 0.05 s.
Open the shutter.
The shutter is broken.
You don't even know how to use a digital camera? How mechanically illiterate can you be? All you need to do is press the shutter.
verb
I forgot to shutter the windows before the storm hit.
Hospitals in the towns of Lodi and Cremona last week were so packed that they had to shutter their emergency rooms and send patients elsewhere.

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