board
nounEtymology
A wooden board Board (duplicate bridge) From Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; edge; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, top”) + *-dʰh₁eti or *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”) + *-dʰh₁eti. The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table." Cognates Cognate with Scots buird (“board; table”), Yola borde (“table”), West Frisian boerd (“board”), Dutch bord (“dish, plate; board, plank; sign”), boord (“border, boundary; bank, shore”), German Bord (“shelf”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish bord (“plank; table”), Elfdalian buord (“table”), Faroese and Icelandic borð (“board, plank; table”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (*baurd, “board, plank”) (whence 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (fōtubaurd, “footstool”).
Definitions
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often…
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
- 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…
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.
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Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on…
Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), bulletin board, 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.
Regular meals in a place of lodging
Regular meals in a place of lodging; the price paid for them.
- board and lodging
- room and board
- His board was served by his landlady, the owner of the boarding house. [meals]
The side of a ship.
- Now board to board the rival vessels row.
The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
- Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.
- 1890, Algernon Blackwood, Christmas in England, Methodist Magazine Volume 32 pg 481. The real beginning of the festivities is on Christmas-eve, when the large parties meet their friends from far and near round the festive board.
- "A man," added Cripps, pointing at the MacQuibble, who took no manner of notice, but smoked impassively, "who comes to my hospitable board meanly disguised as an artist, and filches the table wine."
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
- to bind a book in boards
A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.
- 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 […]
- 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.
The portion of the playing field where creatures or minions can be placed (or played,…
The portion of the playing field where creatures or minions can be placed (or played, summoned, etc.).
A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to…
A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
A Philippine provincial or Uruguayan departmental assembly or council.
To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- It is time to board the aircraft.
- You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- to board one’s horse at a livery stable
To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,
To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then…
To (at least attempt 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 approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
- 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
- the boarded hovel
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
A rebound.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborbatten
- neighborbeam
- neighborlath
- neighborplank
- neighborpole
- neighborslab
- neighborveneer
- neighborbaseboard
- neighborblackboard
- neighborbodyboard
- neighborbody board
- neighborboogie board
Derived
A board, aboard, above-board, above board, above the board, academy board, across-the-board, across the board, airboard, all over the board, aquaboard, arrow board, artboard, audioboard, back board, backerboard, backer board, back to the drawing board, back to the old drawing board, bakeboard, baking board, balance board, bare board, barge board, barnboard, barrier board, battenboard, beadboard, bear board, beaverboard, bed and board, bedboard, billboard, bitboard, blockboard, boardable, board and board, board and lodging, board bags, board book · +442 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at board. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at board. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at board
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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