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barn doors

barn doors noun: four hinged metal slats that come (or are attachable) on the front of cinema lights, used for shaping light and fastening light gels. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of barn door.

Noun

barn doors pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Four hinged metal slats that come (or are attachable) on the front of cinema lights, used for shaping light and fastening light gels.
    • Clip the C-47 to the barn doors.
    • Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]1976, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook, volume 10, page 105
  2. (plural, plural-only) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see barn, doors.

Also used as

barn doors is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of barn door.

Questions about barn doors

What does barn doors mean?
Barn doors means four hinged metal slats that come (or are attachable) on the front of cinema lights, used for shaping light and fastening light gels.
What part of speech is barn doors?
Barn doors is a noun.

Words near barn doors in the dictionary

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

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