Clapper vs. Clapperboard — What's the Difference?

One who applauds.

A clapperboard (also known by various other names including dumb slate) is a device used in filmmaking and video production to assist in synchronizing of picture and sound, and to designate and mark the various scenes and takes as they are filmed and audio-recorded. It is operated by the clapper loader.

The tongue of a bell.

(film) 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.

(Slang) The tongue of a garrulous person.

A device which synchronizes sound and picture while making a motion picture, consisting of boards held in front of a movie camera, which are are banged together.

Clappers Two flat pieces of wood held between the fingers and struck together rhythmically.

Photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together

One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.

An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.

A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.

A clapstick musical instrument.

(sewing) A pounding block.

The chattering damsel of a mill.

(cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.

A person's tongue, as a source of chatter or nagging.

(obsolete) A rabbit burrow.

(transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.

To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.

Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.

A person who claps.

That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.

A rabbit burrow.

Someone who applauds

A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side