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barn dooring

barn dooring is the present participle and gerund of barn door.

Meaning of barn door

Verb

barn door (third-person singular simple present barn doors, present participle barn dooring, simple past and past participle barn doored)

  1. (transitive) To apply or adjust the barn doors as part of lighting.
    • Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp. Maybe taking the dome diffuser off. Perhaps zooming it. Oh my. And you thought you were just taking a picture.2011, Joe McNally, Sketching Light

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Questions about barn dooring

What is barn dooring the present participle and gerund of?
Barn dooring is the present participle and gerund of barn door.

Words near barn dooring in the dictionary

  1. barn dances
  2. barn dancing
  3. barn door
  4. barn door wipe
  5. barn doored
  6. barn dooring
  7. barn doors
  8. barn egg
  9. barn eggs
  10. barn find
  11. barn finds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barn dooring (page history and authors); barn door (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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