Flap vs. Shutter — What's the Difference?

(of a bird) move (its wings) up and down when flying or preparing to fly

Each of a pair of hinged panels fixed inside or outside a window that can be closed for security or privacy or to keep out the light

Be agitated or panicky

A device that opens and closes to expose the film in a camera.

A thin, flat piece of cloth, paper, metal, etc. that is hinged or attached on one side only and covers an opening or hangs down from something

The blind enclosing the swell box in an organ, used for controlling the volume of sound.

An act of flapping something, typically a wing or arm, up and down or from side to side

Close the shutters of (a window or building)

A state of agitation; a panic

A hinged cover or screen for a window, usually fitted with louvers.

A large broad mushroom.

A mechanical device of a camera that controls the duration of a photographic exposure, as by opening and closing to allow light coming through the lens to expose a plate or film.

A type of consonant produced by allowing the tip of the tongue to strike the palate very briefly.

Shutters(Music) The movable louvers on a pipe organ, controlled by pedals, that open and close the swell box.

A projecting or hanging piece usually attached to something on one side and often intended to protect or cover

To furnish or close with shutters

Either of the folded ends of a book jacket that fit inside the front and back covers.

To cause to cease operations; close down

A variable control surface on the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, used primarily to increase lift or drag.

One who shuts or closes something.

(Medicine) A piece of tissue that has been partially detached and used in surgical grafting to fill an adjacent defect or cover the cut end of a bone after amputation.

Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.

The act of waving or fluttering

(photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.

The sound produced by this motion.

(transitive) To close shutters covering.

(Linguistics) A sound articulated by a single, quick touch of the tongue against the teeth or alveolar ridge, as (t) in water. Also called tap1.

To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.

(Informal) A commotion or disturbance

(transitive) To cancel or terminate.

(Archaic) A blow given with something flat; a slap.

One who shuts or closes.

To move (wings or arms, for example) up and down.

A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.

To cause to move or sway with a fluttering or waving motion

A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.

To cause to strike against something

A mechanical device of various forms, attached to the aperture of a camera lens for opening and closing to expose the plate. It is usually designed so that the time during which the aperture is opened may be varied by a manual dial or by some automatic mechanism, thereby allowing proper exposure of a photographic film under different intensities of light.

To move wings or the arms up and down.

A mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure

To fly by beating the air with the wings

A hinged blind for a window

To move or sway while fixed at one edge or corner; flutter

Close with shutters;

Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.

A hinged leaf.

(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.

A side fin of a ray.

The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.

A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.

(phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

(surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.

The labia, the vulva.

(obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).

(obsolete) A young prostitute.

(transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.

(intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.

Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.

A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.

The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.

A disease in the lips of horses.

A movable part of an airplane wing, used to increase lift or drag, especially when taking off or landing. used often in the plural.

To beat with a flap; to strike.

To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.

To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.

To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.

Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely;

An excited state of agitation;

The motion made by flapping up and down

A movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body

A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag

Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;

Move noisily;

Move with a thrashing motion;

Move with a flapping motion;

Make a fuss; be agitated

Pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds