board
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English bord, Old English bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdan.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
board (plural boards)
- A relatively long, wide and thin piece of sawn wood or similar material, usually intended for use in construction.
- A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
- Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, etc.
- A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
- We have to wait to hear back from the board.
- (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
- Room and board
- (nautical) The side of a ship.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward
- (basketball, slang) A rebound.
- (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
- (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
[edit] Derived terms
Terms derived from board
[edit] Translations
piece of wood
amount paid for meals and lodging
device containing electrical switches
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blackboard, whiteboard etc
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committee
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basketball: a rebound
side of a ship
wall surrounding ice hockey rink
[edit] See also
[edit] Verb
board (third-person singular simple present boards, present participle boarding, simple past and past participle boarded)
- (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- It is time to board the aircraft.
- (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- (transitive) (nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
- (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
- (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
[edit] Translations
to step or climb
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to provide someone with meals and lodging
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to receive meals and lodging in exchange for money
nautical: to capture an enemy ship
[edit] Statistics
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Most common English words before 1923: opposite · vast · isn't · #974: board · associated · worse · safe
