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BOARD
board
(noun) a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose; “he nailed boards across the windows”
board, gameboard
(noun) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games; “he got out the board and set up the pieces”
board, table
(noun) food or meals in general; “she sets a fine table”; “room and board”
board
(noun) a committee having supervisory powers; “the board has seven members”
board, plank
(noun) a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
board
(verb) provide food and lodging (for); “The old lady is boarding three men”
board
(verb) lodge and take meals (at)
board, get on
(verb) get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
board, room
(verb) live and take one’s meals at or in; “she rooms in an old boarding house”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
A device (e.g, switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g, a board of directors.
(uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
(nautical) The side of a ship.
(nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
(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.
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
(video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
(bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
Hyponyms
• baseboard
• blackboard
• bodyboard, body board
• boogie board
• bulletin board
• centreboard, centerboard
• chalkboard
• checkerboard
• chessboard
• chipboard
• circuit board
• clapboard
• clapperboard
• corkboard
• dartboard
• dashboard
• drawing board
• duckboard
• emery board
• floorboard, floor board
• poster board
• gas board
• ironing board
• keyboard
• particle board
• plasterboard
• protoboard
• rubboard
• sandwich board
• scrub board
• skateboard
• skirting board
• snowboard
• spine board
• surfboard
• sounding board
• thumbboard
• outboard
• water board
• weatherboard
• whiteboard
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.
Antonyms: alight, disembark
(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.
To cover with boards or boarding.
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
(transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
Etymology 2
Noun
board (plural boards)
(basketball, informal) A rebound.
Anagrams
• B road, Bardo, Borda, Broad, Broad., Broda, Dobra, abord, adorb, bardo, broad, dobra
Proper noun
Board (plural Boards)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Board is the 8388th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3946 individuals. Board is most common among White (71.95%) and Black/African American (21.01%) individuals.
Anagrams
• B road, Bardo, Borda, Broad, Broad., Broda, Dobra, abord, adorb, bardo, broad, dobra
Source: Wiktionary
Board, n. Etym: [OE. bord, AS. bord board, shipboard; akin to bred plank, Icel. bor board, side of a ship, Goth. f footstool, D. bord board, G. brett, bort. See def. 8. sq. root92.]
1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
Note: When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank.
2. A table to put food upon.
Note: The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often movable, and placed on trestles. Halliwell. Fruit of all kinds . . . She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand. Milton.
3. Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
4. A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus.
5. A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
7. pl.
Definition: The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
8. Etym: [In this use originally perh. a different word meaning border, margin; cf. D. boord, G. bord, shipboard, and G. borte trimming; also F. bord (fr. G.) the side of a ship. Cf. Border.]
Definition: The border or side of anything. (Naut.) (a) The side of a ship. "Now board to board the rival vessels row." Dryden. See On board, below. (b) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
Note: Board is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as, fir board, clapboard, floor board, shipboard, sideboard, ironing board, chessboard, cardboard, pasteboard, seaboard; board measure. The American Board, a shortened form of "The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" (the foreign missionary society of the American Congregational churches).
– Bed and board. See under Bed.
– Board and board (Naut.), side by side.
– Board of control, six privy councilors formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the British East Indies. Stormonth.
– Board rule, a figured scale for finding without calculation the number of square feet in a board. Haldeman.
– Board of trade, in England, a committee of the privy council appointed to superintend matters relating to trade. In the United States, a body of men appointed for the advancement and protection of their business interests; a chamber of commerce.
– Board wages. (a) Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as, to work hard, and get only board wages. (b) Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging. (c) A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging. Dryden.
– By the board, over the board, or side. "The mast went by the board." Totten. Hence (Fig.), To go by the board, to suffer complete destruction or overthrow.
– To enter on the boards, to have one's name inscribed on a board or tablet in a college as a student. [Cambridge, England.] "Having been entered on the boards of Trinity college." Hallam.
– To make a good board (Naut.), to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward.
– To make short boards, to tack frequently.
– On board. (a) On shipboard; in a ship or a boat; on board of; as, I came on board early; to be on board ship. (b) In or into a railway car or train. [Colloq. U. S.] -- Returning board, a board empowered to canvass and make an official statement of the votes cast at an election. [U.S.]
Board, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boarding.]
1. To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. "The boarded hovel." Cowper.
2. Etym: [Cf. Board to accost, and see Board, n.]
Definition: To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way. You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication. Totten.
3. To enter, as a railway car. [Colloq. U. S.]
4. To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
5. To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
Board, v. i.
Definition: To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel. We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house. Spectator.
Board, v. t. Etym: [F. aborder. See Abord, v. t.]
Definition: To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. [Obs.] I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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