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# clapperboard

noun (a clapperboard, clapperboards)

«clapperboard» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «clapperboard» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clapperboard/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«clapperboard» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/clapperboard.html) on Mova free.