clapboard vs gong

clapboard

verb
  • To cover with clapboards. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction. 

  • Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding. 

gong

verb
  • To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. 

  • To give an award or medal to. 

  • To warn. 

  • To halt (originally, a contestant in a talent show; later, a performer, a speaker). 

noun
  • A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer. 

  • An advanced practice that cultivates such energy. 

  • A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi. 

  • A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor. 

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