Word definition: board

Etimology


From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."

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, circuit board, 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, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.

(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 two-dimensional layout.

(TCGs) The portion of the playing field where creatures or minions can be placed (or played, summoned, etc.).

(bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards. Board (duplicate bridge)

(computing, Internet) Short for message board.

(computing, Internet) Short for bulletin board.

(Philippines, local government) A provincial assembly or council.

Examples


Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.

We have to wait to hear back from the board.

Room and board

Now board to board the rival vessels row.

Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.

Túrin took a seat without heed, for he was wayworn, and filled with thought; and by ill-luck he set himself at a board among the elders of the realm, and in that place where Saeros was accustomed to sit.

to bind a book in boards

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 […]

You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies.

Related words


hyponyms

baseboard

blackboard

bodyboard, body board

boogie board

bulletin board

centreboard, centerboard

chalkboard

checkerboard

chessboard

chipboard

circuit board

clapboard

clapperboard

corkboard

dartboard

dashboard

destination board

drawing board

duckboard

emery board

floorboard, floor board

gas board

ironing board

keyboard

outboard

particle board

plasterboard

poster board

protoboard

rubboard

sandwich board

scrub board

skateboard

skirting board

snowboard

sounding board

spine board

surfboard

thumbboard

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.

(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 (at least attempt 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.

Examples


It is time to board the aircraft.

You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.

I have just enough time for a "swifty" in the reopened '301' bar on Platform 4 before boarding a two-car Northern Class 158 working the 1824 to Leeds.

Antonyms: alight, disembark

to board one's horse at a livery stable

We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,

Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure […]

to board a house

the boarded hovel

Etimology


From backboard.

noun


board (plural boards)

(basketball, informal) A rebound.

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