Clapboard vs Bulkhead - What's the difference?
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A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
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(uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
(archaic, UK) An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
(film) 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.
(nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.
Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.
A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
A retaining wall along a waterfront.
As nouns the difference between clapboard and bulkhead
is that clapboard is a narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction while bulkhead is a vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.As a verb clapboard
is to cover with clapboards.clapboard
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