board
see also: Board
Pronunciation
Board
Proper noun
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see also: Board
Pronunciation
- (RP) enPR: bôd, IPA: /bɔːd/
- (America) enPR: bôrd, IPA: /bɔːɹd/
- (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: bōrd, IPA: /bo(ː)ɹd/
- (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: bōəd, IPA: /boəd/
board
- 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.
- Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
- 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.
- 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.
- Now board to board the rival vessels row.
- (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.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125 ↗; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868 ↗, “The Knyght” ↗, column 2:
- At Alyſaundre he was, when it was won / Full ofte tyme he had the bourde bigon / Abouen alle nacions in Pruce {{...}
- At Alexandria he was, when it was won / Quite often he had the board begun [sat at the head of the table] / Above all nations in Prussia {{...}
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
- to bind a book in boards
- (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
- 2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, Future Shocks (in Your Sinclair issue 94)
- The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]
- 2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, Future Shocks (in Your Sinclair issue 94)
- (bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
- French: planche
- German: Brett
- Italian: asse, tavola
- Portuguese: tábua
- Russian: доска́
- Spanish: tablero, tabla
- French: compteur
- German: Pult
- Italian: quadro
- Portuguese: painel de controle
- Russian: коммута́тор
- Spanish: tablero
- French: plateau
- French: tableau, plateau, planche
- German: Tafel
- Italian: lavagna
- Portuguese: quadro, lousa
- Russian: доска́
- Spanish: pizarra, pizarrón
- French: conseil d'administration
- German: Gremium
- Italian: consiglio di amministrazione, comitato
- Portuguese: conselho, comitê, junta
- Russian: правле́ние
- Spanish: consejo, comité, junta, buró, consejo de administración
- German: Schlag
- Russian: галс
- Russian: бо́ртик
board (boards, present participle boarding; 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.
- You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
- antonym en
- (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- to board one's horse at a livery stable
- (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- We […] board in the same house.
- (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 cover with boards or boarding.
- to board a house
- the boarded hovel
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
- French: monter (à bord de), embarquer
- German: an Bord gehen, einsteigen
- Italian: imbarcarsi, salire a bordo
- Portuguese: embarcar
- Russian: сади́ться
- Spanish: abordar, embarcar, subir
- German: beherbergen
- Portuguese: hospedar
- Russian: предоставля́ть пансио́н
- Portuguese: hospedar-se
- Russian: столова́ться
- French: aborder
- German: entern
- Italian: abbordare
- Portuguese: embarcar
- Russian: идти́ на аборда́ж
- Spanish: abordar
board (plural boards)
- (basketball, informal) A rebound.
- Portuguese: rebatida, taco
Board
Proper noun
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