Board
[bɔːd] or [bɔrd]
Definition
(noun.) a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose; 'he nailed boards across the windows'.
(noun.) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games; 'he got out the board and set up the pieces'.
(noun.) food or meals in general; 'she sets a fine table'; 'room and board'.
(noun.) a committee having supervisory powers; 'the board has seven members'.
(noun.) a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes.
(verb.) provide food and lodging (for); 'The old lady is boarding three men'.
(verb.) lodge and take meals (at).
(verb.) get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.).
(verb.) live and take one's meals at or in; 'she rooms in an old boarding house'.
Typed by Dominic--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
(n.) A table to put food upon.
(n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
(n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
(n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
(n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
(n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
(n.) The border or side of anything.
(n.) The side of a ship.
(n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
(v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
(n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
(n.) To enter, as a railway car.
(n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
(n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
(v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
(v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
Editor: Lucius
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Plank (thin).[2]. Table (for food), stand.[3]. Food, diet, provision, fare, victuals, entertainment, meals.[4]. Conclave, council, committee.
v. a. [1]. Cover with boards.[2]. Enter or go on board of (a vessel) by force.[3]. Furnish with meals.
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Definition
n. a broad and thin strip of timber: a table to put food on: food: a table round which persons meet for some kind of business: any council or authorised body of men as a 'school-board:' the deck of a ship: (pl.) the stage: a kind of thick stiff paper as in pasteboard Bristol-board esp. that used in the binding of books.—v.t. to cover with boards: to supply with food at fixed terms: to enter a ship: to attack.—v.i. to receive food or take meals.—ns. Board′er one who receives board (food): one who boards a ship; Board′ing the act of covering with boards: the covering itself: act of boarding a ship; Board′ing-house a house where boarders are kept; Board′ing-pike a pike used in boarding a ship or in defending it when attacked; Board′ing-school a school in which board is given as well as instruction; Board′-school a school under control of a school-board as elected by the Elementary Education Act of 1870.—n.pl. Board′-wā′ges wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in food.—Above board openly.—By the board over the board or side of a ship—hence To go by the board to be lost or destroyed.—To sweep the board to take all the cards.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
An implement for administering corporal punishment, used by mothers and land-ladies. 'The Festive Board' may be a shingle, a hair-brush a fish-hash breakfast or a stewed prune supper.
Typed by Chauncey
Examples
- It was also used in October, 1899, on board the Grande Duchesse to report the international yacht race between the Columbia and the Shamrock at Sandy Hook, as seen in Fig. 13. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But I bethought myself that I was in a boat, after all; and that a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The board on the fore part is lower than the others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At length, I got up whenever I saw him coming, and standing on the foot-board, pretended to look at the prospect; after which I did very well. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I got out the chess-board and arranged the pieces. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It was stiff as a board. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I know wherever a board is loose, and will avoid it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For a cheap silo boards may be used, though probably shingles are the cheapest in the end. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Over this paper place any kind of boards that the fancy of the builder may dictate, as clapboards, shiplap, or drop-siding. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Inured now for so long a time to rooms with bare boards, black benchesdesks, and stoves, the blue saloon seemed to me gorgeous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You are the best actress we've got, and there'll be an end of everything if you quit the boards, said Jo. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Yet it 'crops up'--as our slang goes--my lords and gentlemen and honourable boards, in other fellow-creatures, rather frequently! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The planing machine of Muir, of Glasgow, British patent No. 5,502, of 1827, was designed for making boards for flooring, and represented a considerable advance in the art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I am pretty sure you never boarded here? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My brother, being yet unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded himself and his apprentices in another family. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In general I am adverse to stone structures for this purpose unless thus boarded. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Of course, the police boarded us and put us through a health examination, and inquired into our politics, before they would let us land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The sight of the mangled and dying men which met my eye as I boarded the ship was sickening. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In order to be nearer his new friend Edison boarded with Pope at Elizabeth, New Jersey, for some time, living the strenuous life in the performance of his duties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To test whether this could be done I boarded the gunboat Essex and requested Captain Wm. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No: I am boarding here. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I also had the pleasure of his genial company at the boarding-house about a mile distant, but at the sacrifice of some apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But you've never been to a boarding-school? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Above my head I could see the dangling forms of the boarding party as the battleship raced over us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- That course, for the moment, led merely to Miss Bart's boarding-house; but its shabby door-step had suddenly become the threshold of the untried. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- If one fears cold weather he can make a dead-air space by using two sets of studding and boarding on the inside of the bay. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Stone buildings can be converted into good silos by furring out and double boarding on the inside. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Editor: Ozzie