different between board vs lumber

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)

1. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
2. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
3. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

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

4. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), etc.
5. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

6. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.

7. (nautical) The side of a ship.

   • Now board to board the rival vessels row.

8. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
9. (ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
10. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
11. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.

    to bind a book in boards

12. (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 […]
13. (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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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)

1. (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

2. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.

   to board one's horse at a livery stable

3. (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,

4. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
5. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
6. (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 […]

7. To cover with boards or boarding.

   to board a house

   • the boarded hovel

8. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
9. (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.

Translations

Etymology 2

From backboard

Noun

board (plural boards)

1. (basketball, informal) A rebound.

Translations

Anagrams

• B road, Bardo, Borda, Broad, Broad., Broda, Dobra, abord, adorb, bardo, broad, dobra

English

Etymology

Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move". Possibly influenced by Lumbar, an obsolete variant of Lombard, the Italian immigrant class known for being pawnbrokers and money-lenders in early England.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: l?m?b? IPA^(key): /?l?m.b?/
• (US) enPR: l?m?b?r IPA^(key): /?l?m.b?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(r)

Noun

lumber (usually uncountable, plural lumbers)

1. (now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away. [from 16th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:

     I was visited by the duke of L—, a friend of my lord, who found me sitting upon a trunk, in a poor little dining-room filled with lumber, and lighted with two bits of tallow-candle, which had been left over night.

2. (figuratively) Useless or cumbrous material. [from 17th c.]
   • 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism:

     The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head, […]

3. (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [17th–18th c.]
   • a. 1746, Lady Grisell Baillie Murray, Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie

     They put all the little plate they had […] in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.

4. (Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.]
   • 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer:

     Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber […] .

   • 1883, Chester A. Arthur, Third State of the Union Address, 4 December:

     The resources of Alaska, especially in fur, mines, and lumber, are considerable in extent and capable of large development, while its geographical situation is one of political and commercial importance.;

5. (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.

Synonyms

• timber
• wood

Translations

Verb

lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)

1. (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
   • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary

     ...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.

   • 2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.

2. (transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on
3. To heap together in disorder.
   • 1677, Thomas Rymer, The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd

     so much stuff lumberd together

4. To fill or encumber with lumber.

Related terms

• lumbering
• lumberingness

Translations

Anagrams

• Blumer, Bulmer, Rumble, rumble, umbrel