clapboard vs shingle

clapboard

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

  • 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. 

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

verb
  • To cover with clapboards. 

shingle

noun
  • A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building. 

  • A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel. 

  • A punitive strap such as a belt. 

  • Any paddle used for corporal punishment. 

  • A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle). 

  • Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach. 

verb
  • To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy. 

  • To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap. 

  • To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof. 

  • To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles. 

  • To beat with a shingle. 

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