Aboard
[ə'bɔːd] or [ə'bɔrd]
Definition
(adv.) on first or second or third base; 'Their second homer with Bob Allison aboard'.
(adv.) on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
(adv.) part of a group; 'Bill's been aboard for three years now'.
(adv.) side by side; 'anchored close aboard another ship'.
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Definition
(adv.) On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
(adv.) Alongside; as, close aboard.
(prep.) On board of; as, to go aboard a ship.
(prep.) Across; athwart.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. On board, in the ship, in the vessel.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Afloat
ANT:Ashore
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Definition
adv. or prep. on board: in a ship or in a train (Amer.).
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Examples
- I'd ha' liked to plump down aboard of him, neck and crop, with a heavy jump, and sunk him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A dozen of the prisoners had hatched it before they came aboard, Prendergast was the leader, and his money was the motive power. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In about six weeks or two months from now, there'll be one sailing--I see her this morning--went aboard--and we shall take our passage in her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They cruised along the shore, but in the wrong direction, and shortly our own boat issued from the gloom and took us aboard. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- How can we tell what coming people are aboard the ships that may be sailing to us now from the unknown seas! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The chief personage aboard proved to be Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior under the administration of President Buchanan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If they catch us with the treasure aboard it will all be confiscated anyway. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- On arriving at Clarksville I saw a fleet of steamers at the shore--the same that had taken Nelson's division--and troops going aboard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I rather felt for a time a wish that I had not gone aboard just then. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The one I had seen was so long that the engine moved it very slowly and I was sure I could get aboard it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Hast thou ever been aboard a ship, Fernando? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Our men, with the exception of details that had gone to the front after the wounded, were now either aboard the transports or very near them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Put that clock aboard a ship an' pack it off to Norfolk Island, an' the time will go on just the same. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was the 6th of January before the transports could be got ready and the troops aboard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There must have been 100 people aboard. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had asked the prisoner, aboard the Calais packet, if he wanted a handy fellow, and the prisoner had engaged him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In fact we reached the boat's side and were all aboard before the watch upon the battleship, aroused by the shots, detected us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And I'd have swum off, towing him by the hair, if it had come to that, and I'd a got him aboard without the soldiers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He came aboard with a black coat, and his papers right, and money enough in his box to buy the thing right up from keel to main-truck. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I immediately signalled the Admiral and went aboard his ship. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Pictorial Story Of The Fishing Industry [Illustration: FISHING COMING ABOARD HALIBUT FISHING ICED UP BAITING UP Six pictures by courtesy of Gloucester (Mass. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then as the Carthaginian rammed or swept alongside, this _corvus_, as it was called, could be let down and the boarders could swarm aboard him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Come aboard of mine, and see for your own-selves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Agnes and I parted from him aboard-ship, when he sailed; and we shall never part from him more, on earth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He went aboard a British frigate, the _Bellerophon_, asking to be received as a refugee, but being treated as a prisoner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A major, one of those who had been at my headquarters the day before, came at once aboard and after some search made a direct demand for my delivery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was the work of only a few hours to get the boats manned, with coal aboard and steam up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Troops were also designated to go aboard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Adams said that at one time he was aboard a coffee-ship in the harbor of Santos, Brazil. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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