different between board vs planching

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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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.

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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

Noun

planching (plural planchings)

1. The laying of floors in a building.
2. A floor of boards or planks.

Related terms

• plank