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# clapperboard

«clapperboard» in Mova's school dictionary: **clapped shut in front of the camera at the start of each…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a clapperboard, clapperboards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A board with a hinged stick on top that is clapped shut in front of the camera at the start of each shot of a film, showing the scene and take number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/#m1)

2) (North America, building) Clapboard: long, thin, overlapping boards on the outside of wooden houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In media and film lessons, the clapperboard helps editors match up the picture and the sound, because the clap makes a clear sound at the exact moment the sticks meet. Someone shouts «Scene four, take two!» and claps. In US and Canadian houses «clapboard» siding is common.

### examples

- «Action!» called the director after the clapperboard snapped shut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/#x1)
- The clapperboard showed «Scene 3, Take 2». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/#x2)
- We made a clapperboard for our class film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/#x3)
- The clap helps match the sound to the picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/#x4)
- The old house in Maine had white clapboard walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/#x5)
- I held the clapperboard in our school play video. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/#x6)

### note

One word. Also called a «slate» or «clapper». In building, the North American word is usually «clapboard».

### In the corpora

- [A clapperboard shows the scene and take number; a take is one try at filming a shot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/43-olympiad-film-stage-and-design-puzzles/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clapperboard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.