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Sputtered vs Shuttered - What's the difference?

sputtered | shuttered |

As verbs the difference between sputtered and shuttered

is that sputtered is past tense of sputter while shuttered is past tense of shutter.

sputtered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sputter)

    • sputter

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
  • To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
  • * Congreve
    • They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • To sputter out the basest accusations.
  • To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
  • * Dryden
    • Like the green wood sputtering in the flame.
  • To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
    • In the midst of caresses, and without the last pretend incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations. -Swift.
  • (physics) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
  • (physics) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering

    • See also

    * spit nails

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    shuttered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shutter)

    • shutter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who shuts or closes something.
  • * (Max Beerbohm)
    • 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 .
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * roller shutter * shutter priority * shutter speed

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To close shutters covering.
    • Shutter the windows, there's a storm coming!
  • To close up (a building or an operation) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
    • 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.

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