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[bawrd, bohrd]

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noun

a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.

a flat slab of wood or other material for some specific purpose: a cutting board.

a sheet of wood, cardboard, paper, etc., with or without markings, for some special use, as a checkerboard or chessboard.

boards,

Theater. the stage: The play will go on the boards next week.

the wooden fence surrounding the playing area of an ice-hockey rink.

a racing course made of wood, used especially in track meets held indoors: his first time running on boards.

Bookbinding. stiff cardboard or other material covered with paper, cloth, or the like to form the covers for a book.

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Building Trades. composition material made in large sheets, as plasterboard or corkboard.

a table, especially to serve food on.

daily meals, especially as provided for pay: twenty dollars a day for room and board.

an official group of persons who direct or supervise some activity: a board of directors.

10.

Nautical.

the side of a ship.

one leg, or tack, of the course of a ship beating to windward.

11.

Railroads. a fixed signal or permanent sign regulating traffic.

12.

a flat surface, as a wall or an object of rectangular shape, on which something is posted, as notices or stock-market quotations: a bulletin board.

13.

surfboard.

14.

Computers.

Also called card, circuit board. a piece of fiberglass or other material upon which chips can be mounted to perform specific functions.

plugboard (def. 2).

15.

Electronics. circuit board (def. 2).

16.

a switchboard.

17.

Australian.

the area of a woolshed where shearing is done.

a crew of shearers working in a particular woolshed.

sheep about to be sheared.

18.

Obsolete. the edge, border, or side of anything.

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verb (used with object)

19.

to cover or close with boards (often followed by up or over): to board up a house; to board over a well.

20.

to furnish with meals, or with meals and lodging, especially for pay: They boarded him for $50 a week.

21.

to go on board of or enter (a ship, train, etc.).

22.

to allow on board: We will be boarding passengers in approximately ten minutes.

23.

to come up alongside (a ship), as to attack or to go on board: The pirate ship boarded the clipper.

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24.

Obsolete. to approach; accost.

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verb (used without object)

25.

to take one's meals, or be supplied with food and lodging at a fixed price: Several of us board at the same rooming house.

26.

Ice Hockey. to hit an opposing player with a board check.

Idioms

27.

across the board,

Racing. betting on a horse or dog to finish first, second, or third, so that any result where a selection wins, places, or shows enables the bettor to collect.

applying to or affecting every person, class, group, etc.

28.

go by the board,

to go over the ship's side.

to be destroyed, neglected, or forgotten: All his devoted labor went by the board.

29.

on board,

on or in a ship, plane, or other vehicle: There were several movie stars on board traveling incognito.

Baseball. on base: There were two men on board as the next batter came up.

present and functioning as a member of a team or organization.

Also, aboard.

30.

on the boards, in the theatrical profession: The family has been on the boards since grandfather's time.

31.

tread the boards. tread (def. 22).

Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English bord board, table, shield; cognate with Dutch boord board, bord plate, German Bort, Old Norse borth, Gothic -baurd

Related forms

board·a·ble, adjective

board·like, adjective

re·board, verb (used with object)

un·board·ed, adjective

Can be confused: board, bored, committee, council, panel, trust (see synonym note at trust).

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Example Sentences

You might want to write them on the board so everyone can see them.

The chemical safety board agreed to investigate the rig explosion .

We board our flight and the plane heads north hugging the coast.

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World English Dictionary

board (bɔːd)

—n
1.	a long wide flat relatively thin piece of sawn timber
2.	a. a smaller flat piece of rigid material for a specific purpose: ironing board
	b. (in combination): breadboard; cheeseboard
3.	a person's food or meals, provided regularly for money or sometimes as payment for work done (esp in the phrases full board, board and lodging)
4.	archaic a table, esp one used for eating at, and esp when laden with food
5.	a. (sometimes functioning as plural) a group of people who officially administer a company, trust, etc: a board of directors
	b. (as modifier): a board meeting
6.	any other committee or council: a board of interviewers
7.	(plural) the boards the acting profession; the stage
8.	blackboard chessboard notice board printed circuit springboard surfboard short for
9.	stiff cardboard or similar material covered with paper, cloth, etc, used for the outside covers of a book
10.	a flat thin rectangular sheet of composite material, such as plasterboard or chipboard
11.	chiefly (US)
	a. a list on which stock-exchange securities and their prices are posted
	b. informal the stock exchange itself
12.	nautical
	a. the side of a ship
	b. the leg that a sailing vessel makes on a beat to windward
13.	(Austral), (NZ) the part of the floor of a sheep-shearing shed, esp a raised part, where the shearers work
14.	(NZ) the killing floor of an abattoir or freezing works
15.	a. any of various portable surfaces specially designed for indoor games such as chess, backgammon, etc
	b. (as modifier): board games
16.	a. a set of hands in duplicate bridge
	b. a wooden or metal board containing four slots, or often nowadays, a plastic wallet, in which the four hands are placed so that the deal may be replayed with identical hands
17.	the hull of a sailboard, usually made of plastic, to which the mast is jointed and on which a windsurfer stands
18.	See above board
19.	go by the board to be in disuse, neglected, or lost: in these days courtesy goes by the board
20.	on board on or in a ship, boat, aeroplane, or other vehicle
21.	sweep the board
	a. (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
	b. to win every event or prize in a contest
22.	take on board to accept (new ideas, situations, theories, etc)

—vb
23.	to go aboard (a vessel, train, aircraft, or other vehicle)
24.	nautical to come alongside (a vessel) before attacking or going aboard
25.	to attack (a ship) by forcing one's way aboard
26.	(tr; often foll by up, in, etc) to cover or shut with boards
27.	(intr) to give or receive meals or meals and lodging in return for money or work
28.	(sometimes foll by out) to receive or arrange for (someone, esp a child) to receive food and lodging away from home, usually in return for payment

[Old English bord; related to Old Norse borth ship's side, table, Old High German bort ship's side, Sanskrit bardhaka a cutting off]

'boardable

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

board

O.E. bord "a plank, flat surface," from P.Gmc. *burdam (cf. O.N. borð "plank," Du. bord "board," Goth. fotu-baurd "foot-stool," Ger. Brett "plank"), from PIE *bhrdh- "board," from base *bherdh- "to cut." See also board (2), with which this is so confused as practically

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to form one word (if in fact they were not the same word all along). A board is thinner than a plank, and generally less than 2.5 inches thick. The transferred meaning "food" (late 14c.) is an extension of the late O.E. sense of "table" (cf. boarder, boarding); hence, also, above board "honest, open" (1610s). A further extension is to "table where council is held" (1570s), then transferred to "leadership council, council (that meets at a table)," 1610s.

board

"side of ship," O.E. bord "border, rim, ship's side," from P.Gmc. *bordaz (cf. O.S. bord, Du. boord, Ger. Bord, O.H.G. bart, O.N. barð), perhaps from PIE *bhrtos "raised, made projecting." Connected to border. See also starboard. Under

this theory, etymologically not related to board (1), but the two forms represented in English by these words were more or less confused at an early date in most Germanic languages, a situation made worse in English because this Germanic root also was adopted as M.L. bordus (cf. It. and Sp. bordo). It also entered O.Fr. as bort "beam, board, plank; side of a ship" (12c., Mod.Fr. bord), either from M.L. or Frankish, and from thence it came over with the Normans to mingle with its native cousins. By now the senses are inextricably tangled. Some etymology dictionaries treat them as having been the same word all along.

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