Shudder vs. Shutter — What's the Difference?

(of a person) tremble convulsively, typically as a result of fear or revulsion

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

An act of shuddering

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

To shiver convulsively, as from fear or revulsion.

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

To vibrate; quiver

Close the shutters of (a window or building)

A convulsive shiver, as from fear or revulsion.

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

A vibration or trembling motion.

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 shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.

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

A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.

To furnish or close with shutters

(intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.

To cause to cease operations; close down

(intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

One who shuts or closes something.

To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.

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

The act of shuddering, as with fear.

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

An almost pleasurable sensation of fright;

(transitive) To close shutters covering.

An involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear)

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

Shake, as from cold;

(transitive) To cancel or terminate.

Tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement

One who shuts or closes.

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.

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

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.

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

A hinged blind for a window

Close with shutters;