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Etymology [ edit ] From black board slate .
Pronunciation [ edit ] blackboard (plural blackboards
A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard .
2012 March 1, Brian Hayes , “Pixels or Perish”, American Scientist page 106
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
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a surface that can be written upon with chalk
Arabic: سبورة f sabūra ), لوح m lawḥ )
Asturian: pizarra f
Basque: arbela
Belarusian: до́шка f dóška )
Breton: taolenn (br) f pl
Bulgarian: дъска́ (bg) f dǎská ), че́рна дъска́ f čérna dǎská )
Burmese: ကျောက်သင်ပုန်း (my) (kyauksangpun: )
Catalan: pissarra (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 黑板 (zh) (hēibǎn )
Min-Nan: 烏板 , 乌板 (o·-pán)
Czech: tabule (cs) f
Danish: tavle c
Dutch: schoolbord (nl) n bord (nl) n
Estonian: tahvel
Faroese: talva f
Finnish: liitutaulu (fi)
French: tableau (fr) m tableau noir (fr) m ardoise (fr) f
Galician: lousa f louxa f
German: Tafel (de) f
Greek: μαυροπίνακας (el) m mavropínakas )
Hebrew: לוח m luakh )
Hindi: श्यामपट śyāmpaṭ ), ब्लैकबोर्ड blaikborḍ )
Hungarian: iskolai tábla
Indonesian: papan tulis (id)
Italian: lavagna (it) f
Japanese: 黒板 (ja) (こくばん, kokuban )
Jèrriais: néthe plianche f
Kazakh: тақта (kk) (taqta )
Khmer: ក្ដារខៀន (km) (kdaa kʰiən )
Korean: 칠판 (ko) (chilpan )
Lao: ກະດານ (lo) (ka dān )
Latvian: tāfele f
Macedonian: табла f tabla )
Malay: papan hitam
Maltese: blekbord lavanja
Norwegian: tavle m , f
Persian: تخته سیاه (fa) (taxte-ye siyâh )
Polish: tablica (pl) f
Portuguese: lousa (pt) f quadro-negro m quadro de giz m quadro (pt) m
Romanian: tablă (ro) f
Russian: доска́ (ru) f doská ), кла́ссная доска́ f klássnaja doská )
Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-dubh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: табла f
Roman: tabla (sh) f
Slovak: tabuľa f
Slovene: tabla f
Spanish: pizarra (es) f encerado m ( Spain ) pizarrón m ( Latin America ) tablero m ( Colombia )
Swedish: svart tavla c skrivtavla c
Thai: กระดานดำ (th) (gràdaandam )
Turkish: tahta (tr) , kara tahta (tr)
Ukrainian: до́шка (uk) f dóška )
Vietnamese: bảng đen (vi)
blackboard (third-person singular simple present blackboards present participle blackboarding simple past and past participle blackboarded
To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.
