Shutter vs Jalousie - What's the difference?
shutter | jalousie |
One who shuts or closes something.
* (Max Beerbohm)
(usually, in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
(photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in during taking a picture.
To close shutters covering.
To close up (a building or an operation) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
(label) A component in a ventilation system.
Upward sloping window slats which form a blind or shutter, allowing light and air in but excluding rain and direct sun.
* (rfdate) “A small lofty room, with its window wide open, and the wooden jalousie -blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.”'' — Dickens, ''Tale of Two Cities
As nouns the difference between shutter and jalousie
is that shutter is one who shuts or closes something while jalousie is window blind.As a verb shutter
is to close shutters covering.shutter
English
Noun
(en noun)- it would be very difficult to pack this drawing in such a way that it would be sure not to be injured by the frantic fingers of the openers and shutters .
Derived terms
* roller shutter * shutter priority * shutter speedVerb
(en verb)- Shutter the windows, there's a storm coming!
- It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
- The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.