Clapboard vs. Clapperboard

a long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings

A clapperboard (also known by various other names including dumb slate) is a device used in filmmaking and video production to assist in synchronizing of picture and sound, and to designate and mark the various scenes and takes as they are filmed and audio-recorded. It is operated by the clapper loader.

A long narrow board with one edge thicker than the other, overlapped horizontally to cover the outer walls of frame structures. Also called weatherboard.

(film) A device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.

To cover with clapboards.

a device which synchronizes sound and picture while making a motion picture, consisting of boards held in front of a movie camera, which are are banged together.

A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.

photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together

(uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.

An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.

(film) A clapper board; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.

To cover with clapboards.

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; - used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.

A stave for a cask.

To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.

a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below

cover with clapboards