different between whiteboard vs blockboard

English

Etymology

white +? board, modelled on blackboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?tb??d/

Noun

whiteboard (plural whiteboards)

1. A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.
   • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine

     Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common space, and the walls were covered with white board, which quickly became a tangle of multicolored lines, words, circles, and squiggles.
2. (by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.

Derived terms

• whiteboard marker

Translations

See also

• blackboard
• chalkboard
• imageboard

Descendants

• ? German: Whiteboard
• ? Swedish: whiteboard

References

• “whiteboard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Dutch

Etymology

From English whiteboard.

Noun

whiteboard n (plural whiteboards, diminutive whiteboardje n)

1. whiteboard

   Synonym: witbord

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English whiteboard.

Noun

whiteboard n

1. whiteboard

Declension

Derived terms

• whiteboardpenna (“whiteboard marker”)

Synonyms

• whiteboardtavla (“whiteboard board”)

Coordinate terms

• griffeltavla (“slate”)
• svart tavla (“blackboard”)

English

Etymology

block +? board

Noun

blockboard (countable and uncountable, plural blockboards)

1. A compound wood board consisting of nearly square strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood.

Coordinate terms

• laminboard, battenboard

Translations

See also

• plywood, chipboard