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boarding

[ bawr-ding, bohr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

wooden boards collectively.
a structure of boards, as in a fence or a floor.
the act of a person who boards a ship, train, airplane, or the like:
an uneventful boarding.

boarding

/ ˈbɔːdɪŋ /

a structure of boards, such as a floor or fence
timber boards collectively
1. the act of embarking on an aircraft, train, ship, etc
2. ( as modifier )
  a boarding pass
a process used in tanning to accentuate the natural grain of hides, in which the surface of a softened leather is lightly creased by folding grain to grain and the fold is worked to and fro across the leather

First recorded in 1525–35; board + -ing ¹

Saa is now navigating a new life in America as an incognito boarding school student.

He squints slightly, has a squared jaw, and speaks in British-accented English, the product of a boarding school education.

Like Donal, he requested to go to boarding school to escape his homelife; also like Donal, he was initially miserable there.

Tickets will be free, but anyone who has ever denied anthropogenic climate change will be automatically denied a boarding pass.

First: Was he contagious when boarding the plane and are his plane-mates therefore at risk?

It was more like the boarding of a ship than any land fight I had ever seen or imagined.

Mr. Collingwood, taking the key from his mother, locked the little door in the boarding, after them.

Yet the word is general and apparently unconnected with the house, as it was not a stable but a boarding-house.

Mrs. Barford, as a country heiress, had received a boarding-school education, and was very superior to Letty in every respect.

Immediately after their arrival, he and his brother Nicholas were sent to a boarding-school.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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