Board Definition
board
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English
A wooden
board
Etymology
Middle English bord, Old English bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdan.
Pronunciation
Noun
board (plural boards)
- A relatively long, wide and thin piece of sawn wood or similar material, usually intended for use in construction.
- A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
- Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, 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
- (basketball, slang) A rebound.
- (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.
Derived terms
Terms derived from
board
See also
Verb
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.
- (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- (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 [...].
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
Translations
to step or climb
to provide someone with meals and lodging
- Dutch: logies verschaffen (nl)
- Finnish: majoittaa (fi)
- German: beherbergen (de)
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- Hungarian: élelmez (hu)
- Norwegian: losjere (no)
- Swedish: inackordera (sv) v.t.
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to receive meals and lodging in exchange for money
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- Norwegian: losjere (no)
- Swedish: inackordera (sv) v.i.
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nautical: to capture an enemy ship
- Bulgarian: взимам на абордаж (bg)
- Dutch: enteren (nl)
- Finnish: entrata (fi)
- French: aborder (fr)
- German: entern (de)
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- Norwegian: borde (no)
- Spanish: abordar (es)
- Swedish: borda (sv), äntra (sv)
- Turkish: bordalamak (tr)
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