board
See also: Board
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bôd, IPA(key): /bɔːd/
- (General American) enPR: bôrd, IPA(key): /bɔɹd/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōrd, IPA(key): /bo(ː)ɹd/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōəd, 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, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, 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.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- 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, circuit board, 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.
- 1697, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in Virgil; John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- Now board to board the rival vessels row.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
- (ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
- (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.
- 2007, J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Christopher Tolkien, The Children of Húrin:
- Túrin took a seat without heed, for he was wayworn, and filled with thought; and by ill-luck he set himself at a board among the elders of the realm, and in that place where Saeros was accustomed to sit.
- 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)
- (bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
- (computing, Internet) Short for message board.
- (computing, Internet) Short for bulletin board.
HyponymsEdit
- baseboard
- blackboard
- bodyboard, body board
- boogie board
- bulletin board
- centreboard, centerboard
- chalkboard
- checkerboard
- chessboard
- chipboard
- circuit board
- clapboard
- clapperboard
- corkboard
- dartboard
- dashboard
- destination board
- drawing board
- duckboard
- emery board
- floorboard, floor board
- gas board
- ironing board
- keyboard
- outboard
- particle board
- plasterboard
- poster board
- protoboard
- rubboard
- sandwich board
- scrub board
- skateboard
- skirting board
- snowboard
- sounding board
- spine board
- surfboard
- thumbboard
- water board
- weatherboard
- whiteboard
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Japanese: ボード (bōdo)
TranslationsEdit
long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
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device containing electrical switches
surface for a board game
short for blackboard, whiteboard, etc.
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managing committee
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regular meals or amount paid for them in a place of lodging
side of a ship
nautical: distance between tacks
wall surrounding ice hockey rink
long, narrow table
stiff paper for book covers — see pasteboard
video games: level or stage having a particular layout
duplicate bridge: container for holding pre-dealt cards
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See alsoEdit
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.
- 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.
- (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.
- 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,
- February 8, 1712, Charity Frost, The Spectator No. 296 (letter to the editor)
- (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 Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto iv:
- Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure […]
- To cover with boards or boarding.
- to board a house
- 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], OCLC 228757725:
- the boarded hovel
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
TranslationsEdit
to step or climb onto
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to provide someone with meals and lodging
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to receive meals and lodging in exchange for money
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nautical: to capture an enemy ship
Etymology 2Edit
From backboard
NounEdit
board (plural boards)
- (basketball, informal) A rebound.
TranslationsEdit
basketball: a rebound
AnagramsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English board.
NounEdit
board n (plural boarduri)
- board (of an organization)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of board
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) board | boardul | (niște) boarduri | boardurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) board | boardului | (unor) boarduri | boardurilor |
vocative | boardule | boardurilor |