Shutter vs Scuddle - What's the difference?
shutter | scuddle |
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.
To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
*around 1900 , O. Henry,
*:Just then a girl scuddled lightly around the corner, slipped on a patch of icy snow and fell plump upon the sidewalk.
(Webster 1913)
In lang=en terms the difference between shutter and scuddle
is that shutter is to close shutters covering while scuddle is to run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.As verbs the difference between shutter and scuddle
is that shutter is to close shutters covering while scuddle is to run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.As a noun shutter
is one who shuts or closes something.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.
