barn door

plural barn doors · alternative barndoor · alternative barn-door

1. The large door of a barn.
2. humorousSomething large enough that a miss ought to be impossible.

   Buying a barn door won't help your tennis game.

3. ball gamesA player who blocks every ball.
4. euphemistichumorousThe groin area of a pair of pants, especially in reference to a fly.

   Somebody forgot to close his barn door again!

5. climbingAn off-balance pivot on two points of contact.

present singular third person barn doors · participle present barn dooring · participle past barn doored · past barn doored · alternative barndoor · alternative barn-door

1. transitiveTo apply or adjust the barn doors as part of lighting.

   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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   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