barn door
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See also: barndoor
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barn door (plural barn doors)
- The large door of a barn.
- (humorous) Something large enough that a miss ought to be impossible.
- Buying a barn door won't help your tennis game.
- (cricket) A player who blocks every ball.
- (euphemistic, humorous) The groin area of a pair of pants.
- Somebody forgot to close his barn door again!
- (climbing) An off-balance pivot on two points of contact.
Related terms[edit]
- barn doors (lighting equipment)
- close the barn door after the horse has bolted
- not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
Translations[edit]
door of a barn
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Verb[edit]
barn door (third-person singular simple present barn doors, present participle barn dooring, simple past and past participle barn doored)
- (transitive, filmmaking) To apply or adjust the barn doors as part of lighting.
- 2011, Joe McNally, Sketching Light:
- 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.
- 2012, E. P. J. Tozer, Broadcast Engineer's Reference Book, page 518:
- These backlights are placed in the ideal position, directly in line with each cross camera lens, barn doored to light only the back of the participants.