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paceboard

noun

Etymology

From pace + board.

  1. derived from *bʰers-✻ — “tip, top”
  2. inherited from *burdą✻ — “board, plank; edge; table”
  3. inherited from *bord✻
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as paceboard — “pace + board”

Definitions

  1. A board marked with symbols, used to help a person with multiple sclerosis to time their…

    A board marked with symbols, used to help a person with multiple sclerosis to time their speaking so as to be clearly intelligible.

    • However, because this method, as well as the actual paceboard itself, was too cumbersome, we moved to a less rigid method of rate control following one month of this technique.
    • A simple paceboard, consisting of a pattern of rectangles set next to each other, may slow the person's speech and allow for improved intelligibility. The person points to each square while uttering a single syllable.

  2. Obsolete form of pasteboard.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paceboard. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA