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clapboard
English
Etymology 1
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?klæp?b??(?)d/, /?klæb?(?)d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?klæb(?)?d/
- Hyphenation: clap?board
Noun
clapboard (countable and uncountable, plural clapboards)
- A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
- (uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
- (archaic, Britain) An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
Synonyms
- weatherboard
Translations
Verb
clapboard (third-person singular simple present clapboards, present participle clapboarding, simple past and past participle clapboarded)
- To cover with clapboards.
See also
- Clapboard (architecture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- clapboard at OneLook Dictionary Search
Etymology 2
clap +? board
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klæp?b??(?)d/
Noun
clapboard (plural clapboards)
- (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.
Synonyms
- (film): clapper board, clapstick, slate, slate board, sync slate, sticks, board, marker
Translations
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partition
English
Etymology
Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," borrowed from Old French particion (modern partition), from Latin partitio, partitionem (“division, portion”), from partitus, the past participle of partire (“to split (up), part(ition)”).
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: pärt?'sh?n, IPA(key): /p???t???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
partition (countable and uncountable, plural partitions)
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- A part of something that has been divided.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (music) A musical score.
Usage notes
- (set theory): The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.
Synonyms
- dismemberment
Derived terms
- equipartition
Related terms
- partite
Translations
Verb
partition (third-person singular simple present partitions, present participle partitioning, simple past and past participle partitioned)(transitive)
- To divide something into parts, sections or shares
- To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
- To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off
Synonyms
- dismember
Derived terms
- partitioner
- partitionist
Related terms
- partner
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin part?ti?, part?ti?nem. Synchronically analysable as partir +? -tion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?.ti.sj??/
Noun
partition f (plural partitions)
- (heraldry) a (geometrical) division using two colors
- (music) a score, often comprising all parts
- (databases, computing) partition
Derived terms
- partitionner
- partitionnement
- partitionniste
Further reading
- “partition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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