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board
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bôd, IPA(key): /b??d/
- (General American) enPR: bôrd, IPA(key): /b??d/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b?rd, IPA(key): /bo(?)?d/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b??d, IPA(key): /bo?d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
- Homophone: bored; baud, bawd (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English bord, from Old English bord (“board; plank; table; shield; deck; ship; boundary”), from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burd? (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erd?- (“to cut”).
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.
- Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
- 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.
- Now board to board the rival vessels row.
- (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.
- 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.
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Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (b?do)
Translations
See also
- batten
- beam
- lath
- plank
- pole
- slab
- veneer
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.
- 1862, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, and Dictionary, for the use of the Midshipmen of the U.S. Navy
- You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
- Antonyms: alight, disembark
- 1862, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, and Dictionary, for the use of the Midshipmen of the U.S. Navy
- (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.
- February 8, 1712, Charity Frost, The Spectator No. 296 (letter to the editor)
- We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,
- February 8, 1712, Charity Frost, The Spectator No. 296 (letter to the editor)
- (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.
Translations
Etymology 2
From backboard
Noun
board (plural boards)
- (basketball, informal) A rebound.
Translations
Anagrams
- B road, Bardo, Borda, Broad, Broad., Broda, Dobra, abord, adorb, bardo, broad, dobra
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boards
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bôdz, IPA(key): /b??dz/
- (General American) enPR: bôrdz, IPA(key): /b???dz/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b?rdz, IPA(key): /bo(?)?dz/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b??dz, IPA(key): /bo?dz/
- Rhymes: -??(?)dz
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
boards
- plural of board
boards (plural only)
- (informal, with "the") A stage (as in a theater).
- Structure around a rink for ice hockey.
- (publishing, informal) A hardcover binding on a book.
Translations
Etymology 2
From College Board tests
Noun
boards pl (plural only)
- Examinations given for entry to college or to qualify for a profession.
Translations
Verb
boards
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of board
Anagrams
- B roads, Bardos, Bordas, Broads, Brodas, abords, adorbs, adsorb, bardos, broads, dobras
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