board
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Definitions ofboard
- A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
- 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.
Example: "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.
Example: "We have to wait to hear back from the board."
- Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
Example: "Room and board"
- The side of a ship.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
- The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
- A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
Example: "to bind a book in boards"
- A level or stage having a particular layout.
- A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
- To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
Example: "It is time to board the aircraft."
- To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
Example: "to board one's horse at a livery stable"
- To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
- To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
- To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
- To cover with boards or boarding.
Example: "to board a house"
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
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