boarding

IPA: bˈɔrdɪŋ

The act of people getting aboard a ship aircraft, train, bus, etc.; embarkation.
The act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship by boarding it.
A structure made of boards.
(uncountable) The riding of a skateboard.
(ice hockey) A penalty called for pushing into the boards.

Examples of "boarding" in Sentences

Lesion of Horror@136 said, water boarding is NOT torture.
Water boarding is torture, no matter what your party platform says.
Water boarding is designed to gain intelligence, so when we get it, we call it a day and go to the chow hall.
Water boarding is not as bad as its cracked up to be, I was waterboarded several time for training purposes in the Army.
People have told me of Catholic brothers in boarding schools coming to the dormitory a few nights a week and calling for boys.
For instance, the Washington fifth grader (Anthony) is one 61 applicants waiting for 24 spaces that will open up in boarding school.
And I made myself many kinds of spectators, from crabbed old maids and lean pantaloons to girls in boarding school and Greek boys of thousands of years ago.
Synonymous in many people's minds with the term "boarding school," this bastion of Britishness, founded in 1440, remains a school for boys, unlike many former single-sex schools.
He recalls being awakened each morning at about eight in boarding school with a breakfast of a sweet roll and a cup of steaming hot chocolate, served in bed, whose caffeine content propelled him toward the next meal, brunch, served at about ten.