board
IPA: bˈɔrd
noun
- 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.
- A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
- (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
- (nautical) The side of a ship.
- (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.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
- (video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.
- (bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
- (Philippines, local government) A provincial assembly or council.
- (basketball, informal) A rebound.
- A surname.
- Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), etc. [A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.]
- (computing, Internet) Short for message board. [A board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space.]
- (computing, Internet) Short for bulletin board. [A board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space.]
verb
- (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- (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 (at least attempt 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.
- To cover with boards or boarding.
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
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