barndoorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

barndoor (複数形 barndoors)

1. The door of a barn
   • 1898 Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll^[1]:

     Do we blame the wanton schoolboy, with a pebble in his hand, all powerless to resist the alluring vastness of a barndoor?

派生語

• barndoor skate

語源

barn +‎ door

発音

名詞

barn door (複数形 barn doors)

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. (cricket) A player who blocks every ball.
4. (euphemistic, humorous) The groin area of a pair of pants.

   Somebody forgot to close his barn door again!

5. (climbing) An off-balance pivot on two points of contact.

関連する語

• barn doors (lighting equipment)
• close the barn door after the horse has bolted
• not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

動詞

barn door (三人称単数 現在形 barn doors, 現在分詞 barn dooring, 過去形および過去分詞形 barn doored)

1. (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.