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barn door en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From barn + door.

Meanings

1. The large door of a barn.
2. (humorous) Something large enough that a miss ought to be impossible.
   • Buying a barn door won't help your tennis game.
3. A player who blocks every ball.
4. (euphemistic, humorous) The groin area of a pair of pants, especially in reference to a fly.
   • Somebody forgot to close his barn door again!
5. An off-balance pivot on two points of contact.

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Relateds

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn · close the barn door after the horse has bolted · your barn door is open · barn door wipe · barn doors

Translations (3)

fi ladonovi (door of a barn) · de Scheunentor (door of a barn) · pl drzwi stodoły (door of a barn)

barn door en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From barn + door.

Meanings

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:
   • 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. 2012, E. P. J. Tozer, Broadcast Engineer's Reference Book, page 518:

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