Clapperboard

  

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Clapperboard

Definition: Clapperboard

Clapperboard

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Clapperboard

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Clapperboard (1972)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Clapperboard

"Clapperboard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Clapperboard" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clapperboard

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

clapperboard

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Clapperboard

Language Translations for "clapperboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

klappe (back, can it, clack, flap, key, leaf, lid, patch, shutter, Sidegate, strap, swat, tab, tailgate, trap, trapdoor, valve). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apperboardclay

   

Swedish

  

synkronklappa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Clapperboard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-l-o-p-p-r-r"

-2 letters: paperboard.

-3 letters: barcarole, clapboard, droppable.

-4 letters: adorable, albacore, arboreal, capabler, coappear, drapable, labrador, lapboard, larboard, palpebra, paradrop.

-5 letters: abrader, acerola, apocarp, apparel, arbored, areolar, boarder, bracero, broader, brocade, caldera, capable, caporal, carbora, carload, caroled, caroler, carpale, clapped, clapper, clopped, codable, corrade, craaled, cradler, crapped, crapper, cropped, cropper, dropper, eardrop, labored, laborer, leopard, palaced, parable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Clapperboard


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6C 61 70 70 65 72 62 6F 61 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-..    .-    .--.    .--.    .    .-.    -...    ---    .-    .-.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#97 &#112 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#98 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 0061 0070 0070 0065 0072 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

377867828271846881678470

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Clapperboard"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiontysk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningschwedisch, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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