board
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɔːɹd/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /bo(ː)ɹd/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /boəd/
Audio US (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
- Homophone: bored; baud, bawd (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English bord, from Old English bord (“board; plank; table; shield; deck; ship; boundary”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”).
NounEdit
board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)
- A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
- A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
- A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
- Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
- Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
- 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.
- (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
- Room and board
- (nautical) The side of a ship.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
- (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
- (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, “The Knyght”, column 2:
- At Alyſaundre he was, when it was won / Full ofte tyme he had the bourde bigon / Abouen alle nacions in Pruce […]
- At Alexandria he was, when it was won / Quite often he had the board begun [sat at the head of the table] / Above all nations in Prussia […]
- At Alyſaundre he was, when it was won / Full ofte tyme he had the bourde bigon / Abouen alle nacions in Pruce […]
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
- to bind a book in boards
- (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 […]
- 2015, Hiddenstuff Entertainment, Candy Crush Soda Saga Game Guide, page 23:
- You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies.
- 2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, Future Shocks (in Your Sinclair issue 94)
- (duplicate 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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HyponymsEdit
Hyponyms of board
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from board
Related termsEdit
Terms related to board
TranslationsEdit
piece of wood or other material
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amount paid for meals and lodging
device containing electrical switches
blackboard, whiteboard, etc.
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committee
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side of a ship
nautical: a distance
wall surrounding ice hockey rink
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VerbEdit
board (third-person singular simple present boards, present participle boarding, simple past and past participle boarded)
- (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- It is time to board the aircraft.
- (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- to board one's horse at a livery stable
- (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spectator
- We […] board in the same house.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spectator
- (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
- (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
- (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 […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- To cover with boards or boarding.
- to board a house
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
TranslationsEdit
to step or climb
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to provide someone with meals and lodging
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to receive meals and lodging in exchange for money
nautical: to capture an enemy ship
Etymology 2Edit
From backboard
NounEdit
board (plural boards)
- (basketball, informal) A rebound.
TranslationsEdit
basketball: a rebound