different between vast vs board

English

Etymology

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Doublet of fada.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: väst, IPA^(key): /v??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /væst/
• Rhymes: -??st

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster or more vast, superlative vastest or most vast)

1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
3. (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

Translations

Noun

vast (plural vasts)

1. (poetic) A vast space.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i

     they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?stus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vast/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bast/

Adjective

vast (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasts or vastos, feminine plural vastes)

1. vast, wide

Related terms

• vastitud

Further reading

• “vast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vast” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vast” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Hyphenation: vast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vast, from Old Dutch fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster, superlative meest vast or vastst)

1. firm, fast, tight
2. fixed, not moving or changing

3. stuck, unable to get out

4. (chemistry) in the solid state

5. (botany) perennial

6. (of a telephone) using a landline

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vas

Adverb

vast

1. surely, certainly

   Synonym: zeker

2. (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten
2. imperative of vasten

Estonian

Etymology

Of Finno-Mordvinic or Finno-Volgaic origin. Cognate to Finnish vasta, Votic vassa, Northern Sami vuostá, Erzya ??????? (vastoms, “to meet; to receive”), Moksha ????? (vasta, “place; distance”) and possibly Western Mari ???????? (?aštareš, “against; across”).

Adverb

vast

1. maybe, possibly
2. recently, just, now

Derived terms

References

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish vasten

Preposition

vast

1. against

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)

Romani

Etymology

Perhaps from Sanskrit ???? (hásta), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *??ástas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??és-to- (“hand”) < *??es-. Compare Punjabi ??? (hatth), Hindi ??? (h?th), Bengali ??? (hat); compare also Persian ???? (dast).

Noun

vast m (plural vasta)

1. (anatomy) hand

Romanian

Etymology

From French vaste, from Latin vastus.

Adjective

vast m or n (feminine singular vast?, masculine plural va?ti, feminine and neuter plural vaste)

1. vast

Declension

Related terms

• vastitate

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)

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.

Hyponyms

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)

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