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blind
A person or thing used to deceive or mislead; decoy
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  1. A person or thing used to deceive or mislead; decoy
  2. Something, such as a window shade or a Venetian blind, that hinders vision or shuts out light.
  3. Blind people considered as a group. Used with the:
cover
Shelter or protection:
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  1. Shelter or protection:
  2. (Music) A cover version.
  3. A cover charge.
shade
A small amount; a trace:
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  1. A small amount; a trace:
  2. Any of various devices used to reduce or screen light or heat:
  3. Cover or shelter provided by interception by an object of the sun or its rays:
Find another word for shutter. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for shutter, like: blind, cover, shade, storm shutter, curtain and screen.

Sentence Examples

  • - Shutter Weir with Foot-bridge, Port a l'Anglais, Upper Seine.

  • When a subscriber called (by turning the handle of his magneto- 'generator), the shutter of the annunciator associated with his line dropped.

  • When there is no current the shutter covers the perforations and no light passes, but when a current traverses the wires they are depressed by electromagnetic action, carrying the shutter with them, and a quantity of light proportional to the current strength is admitted through the perforations.

  • In a much larger /!w/ - Shutter '60' inch Reflecting Telescope Dome and Building, Solar Observatory Mount Wilson,Calif.

  • The earliest form of shutter weir, known as a bear-trap, introduced in the United States in 1818, and subsequently erected across the Marne in France, consists of two wooden gates, each turning on a horizontal axis laid across the apron, inclined towards one another and abutting together at an angle in the centre when the weir is closed; the up-stream one serves as the weir, and the down-stream one forms its support, and both fall flat upon the apron for opening the weir.'

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