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  • noun An electronic console used to control the lights in a theatre.

Etymologies

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light +‎ board

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Examples

  • Halfway through them, the surgeon entered with his entourage, and gestured toward the lightboard with my scans mounted on it.

    Francine Hardaway: Yoga, Business and the Secret of Everlasting Youth Francine Hardaway 2011

  • Halfway through them, the surgeon entered with his entourage, and gestured toward the lightboard with my scans mounted on it.

    Francine Hardaway: Yoga, Business and the Secret of Everlasting Youth Francine Hardaway 2011

  • Halfway through them, the surgeon entered with his entourage, and gestured toward the lightboard with my scans mounted on it.

    Francine Hardaway: Yoga, Business and the Secret of Everlasting Youth Francine Hardaway 2011

  • Ashlynn is going to show him their professional lightboard and sound system.

    Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011

  • Ashlynn is going to show him their professional lightboard and sound system.

    Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011

  • Halfway through them, the surgeon entered with his entourage, and gestured toward the lightboard with my scans mounted on it.

    Francine Hardaway: Yoga, Business and the Secret of Everlasting Youth Francine Hardaway 2011

  • Scurrilous jokes, health crises and family dysfunction; scudding, scurrying music and a sharp, colloquial text came together in a stylish production conducted by Elgar Howarth, directed by Neil Armfield and designed, using nothing more than an enormous LED lightboard box, by Brian Thomson.

    Bliss; BBC Prom 61: Hänsel and Gretel 2010

  • Michael worked on the lightboard for years, but he figured out that it was a better gig for him to be an executive.

    Executives: A Meditation Steve Hulett 2009

  • Should I get a 10x12 "lightboard (€85.50), a 12x18" lightboard (€155), or a projector (€154.75)?

    daaaaaaaamn. salymander 2006

  • Well, anyway, I ended up with the 10x12 lightboard, because they didn't * have* any others after all that, and I decided I preferred having a smaller one to not having one at all and tracing on the window.

    arty! drivingblind 2006

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