Sentence examples for shutter from inspiring English sources
'shutter' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it as a noun to refer to a hinged blind or screen for a window or door, or to refer to a device that closes the opening of a camera lens. For example: "I opened the shutters to let some sunshine into the room."
verb
To close shutters covering.
- Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
At the Sea Life aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand, Sony technicians working with the aquarium's animal trainers taught Rambo, a female octopus, to press the shutter on a special camera and take pictures of the visiting public (each photo sells for $NZ2 to support the aquarium's conservation programmes).
Something is happening in the fragment of time when the shutter blinks and sees – and something looks back.
Through a mixture of in-studio instruction and practical photography field trips, the course will teach you everything from how to use a light meter, to how to read a histogram and use shutter speed to best effect.
It is thought that they then forced open shutter doors and used a drill to bore a hole 50cm deep, 25cm high and 45cm wide into the vault wall.
You physically make a box and you have to manually open a shutter to let light hit the film.
It is believed they forced open shutter doors and drilled a hole 20 inches deep, 10 inches high and 18 inches wide into the vault wall.
There was no shortage of 3D television sets to peer at through special "active-shutter" specs.
But buying the rights to the Ikonos images, rather than invoking the shutter-control laws, has a number of advantages.One is that the shutter-control legislation might not withstand a legal challenge under the American constitution's first amendment.
Shops owned by Tibetans were marked as such with traditional white scarves tied through their shutter-handles.
The speed of the flipping mirrors allows full-resolution images for left and right eyes to be displayed in the same one-sixtieth of a second as other systems using half the visual information.The drawback is that viewers must use the more expensive shutter-type glasses.
Such "crosstalk" does not occur to anything like the same extent with active-shutter glasses because they close one lens while the other is open.
