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clapperboard

(ˈklæpəˌbɔːd)
n
(Film) a pair of boards clapped together during film shooting in order to aid sound synchronization
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Noun1.clapperboard - photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion pictureclapperboard - photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together
photographic equipment - equipment used by a photographer
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Translations

clapperboard

[ˈklæpəˌbɔːd] N (Cine) → claqueta f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

clapperboard

clapper-board [ˈklæpərbɔːrd] (British) nclap m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

clapperboard

n (Film) → (Synchron)klappe f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

clapperboard

[ˈklæpəˌbɔːd] nciac m, ciak m
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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Forty Year 5 pupils at Viewley Hill Primary School, in Andover Way, Hemlington, were introduced to the clapper board, cameras and the boom microphone, when a team from SPLATS Entertainment visited.
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Large crowds gathered around its stand at the opening of the show to coo over a tap-shaped shower radio or alarm clock shaped like a directors' clapper board that sleepy users have to snap down to stop the wake-up call.
After the clapper board start, we headed out of the Trident Hotel behind the pilot car into the night and onto the yellow-lit streets of Bandra-Kurla.
As a token of their appreciation, the cast and crew presented Dubai's ruler, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum with gifts from the set; a 'clapper board' carrying signatures of the stars and makers of the film and a director's chair featuring his name.