different between clapboard vs shingles

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)

1. A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
2. (uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
3. (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)

1. 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)

1. (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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??????lz/

Etymology 1

From Latin cingulus, variant of cingulum (“girdle”), translating Ancient Greek ???? (z?n?), ?????? (z?st?r).

Noun

shingles (uncountable)

1. (pathology, informal) Herpes zoster, caused by Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus.

Synonyms

• herpes zoster

Translations

See also

• chicken pox

Etymology 2

Noun

shingles

1. plural of shingle

Anagrams

• Hessling