boarding
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, board + -ing.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Verb
[edit]boarding
- present participle and gerund of board
Noun
[edit]boarding (countable and uncountable, plural boardings)
- 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.
- The act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship by boarding it.
- A structure made of boards.
- (uncountable) The riding of a skateboard.
- (ice hockey) A penalty called for pushing into the boards.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]embarkation
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act of attacking an enemy ship
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structure made of boards
riding a skateboard
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ice hockey: penalty called for pushing into the boards
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References
[edit]- “boarding”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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