boarding

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, board +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪŋ

Verb

boarding

1. present participle and gerund of board

Noun

boarding (countable and uncountable, plural boardings)

1. The act of people getting aboard a ship aircraft, train, bus, etc.; embarkation.
   • 2000, Peter Gregory Furth, Data Analysis for Bus Planning and Monitoring, page 24:

     Load profiles are a standard analysis tool showing passenger activity (boardings, alightings) and passenger load at each stop along a route in a single direction.

2. The act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship by boarding it.
3. A structure made of boards.
4. (uncountable) The riding of a skateboard.
5. (ice hockey) A penalty called for pushing into the boards.

Derived terms

• antiboarding
• boarding card
• boarding craft
• boarding-house
• boarding pass
• boarding school
• droneboarding
• e-boarding
• heliboarding
• nonboarding
• open boarding
• riverboarding
• volcano boarding

Translations

embarkation

• Bulgarian: бординг m (bording)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 登船 (dēngchuán) (ship), 乘船 (zh) (chéngchuán) (ship), 上船 (zh) (shàngchuán) (ship), 登機 / 登机 (zh) (dēngjī) (plane)

• Finnish: kyytiin nouseminen; koneeseen nouseminen
• French: embarquement (fr) m
• German: Einschiffung (de) f (ship)
• Italian: imbarco (it) m
• Japanese: 乗船 (ja) (じょうせん, jōsen) (ship), 搭乗 (ja) (とうじょう, tōjō) (plane)
• Macedonian: бординг m (bording)
• Portuguese: embarque (pt) m
• Romanian: îmbarcare (ro)
• Russian: поса́дка (ru) f (posádka)
• Spanish: embarque (es) m

act of attacking an enemy ship

• Crimean Tatar: abordaj
• Danish: entring c
• Finnish: entraus
• French: abordage (fr) m
• Hebrew: הִסְתַּעֲרוּת עַל הַסִּפּוּן f (hista'arut al hasipun), פְּשִׁיטָה עַל הַסִּפּוּן (he) f (pshita al hasipun)
• Italian: abbordaggio (it) m, arrembaggio (it) m, assalto (it) m, attraccaggio m
• Ottoman Turkish: رامپه (rampa)
• Polish: abordaż (pl) m
• Russian: аборда́ж (ru) m (abordáž)

structure made of boards

• Finnish: laudoitus (fi)
• Italian: tavolato (it) m, copertura (it) f, assito (it) m
• Russian: обши́вка (ru) f (obšívka) (досками)

riding a skateboard

• Finnish: rullalautailu (fi)

ice hockey: penalty called for pushing into the boards

• Catalan: càrrega contra la tanca (ca) f
• Finnish: laitataklaus

References

• “boarding”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• abording