board
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
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(countable, uncountable)A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
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(countable, uncountable)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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(abbreviation, alt of, countable, uncountable)Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), bulletin board, etc.
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(countable, uncountable)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.
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(uncountable)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]
His board seemed a bit steep, but he accepted it because the house was clean and his fellow lodgers were respectful neighbors. [price for meals]
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(countable, uncountable)(nautical) The side of a ship.
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(countable, uncountable)(nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
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(countable, in plural, often, uncountable)(ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
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(archaic, countable, uncountable)A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
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.
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(countable, uncountable)Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
to bind a book in boards
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(countable, uncountable)(video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
It is time to board the aircraft.
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(transitive)To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
to board one’s horse at a livery stable
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(transitive)To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,
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(transitive)(transitive, nautical) To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
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(intransitive)To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
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(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
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To cover with boards or boarding.
to board a house
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To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
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(transitive)To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
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From Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (board, plank; edge; table), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (tip, top) + *-dʰeti or *bʰerH- (to pierce; to strike) + *-dʰeti. The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table". 2 cog Cognate with buird, borde, boerd, bord, boord (border, boundary;