board

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A wooden board

Etymology

Middle English bord, Old English bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrdʰ (“board”), from *bʰerdʰ (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

Noun

board (plural boards)

  1. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of sawn wood or similar material, usually intended for use in construction.
  2. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
  3. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, etc.
  4. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
    We have to wait to hear back from the board.
  5. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
    Room and board
  6. (nautical) The side of a ship.
  7. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward
  8. (basketball, slang) A rebound.
  9. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
  10. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.

Derived terms

Terms derived from board

Translations

piece of wood
amount paid for meals and lodging
device containing electrical switches
blackboard, whiteboard, etc.
committee
basketball: a rebound
side of a ship
nautical: a distance
wall surrounding ice hockey rink
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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.
    It is time to board the aircraft.
  2. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
  3. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
  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 hit (someone) with a wooden board.

Translations

to step or climb
to provide someone with meals and lodging
to receive meals and lodging in exchange for money
nautical: to capture an enemy ship

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