Boarding
['bɔːdɪŋ] or ['bɔrdɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft.
(noun.) a structure of boards.
Edited by Clifford--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Board
(n.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
(n.) The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
(n.) The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
Typist: Shane
Examples
- 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.
- It's some boarding-school in this town, I suppose, ain't it? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There had been some talk on occasions of my going to boarding-school. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She struck westward through the dreary March twilight, toward the street where her boarding-house stood. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Set up a boarding-school! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The luxury of lying late in bed was a pleasure belonging to the life of ease; it had no part in the utilitarian existence of the boarding-house. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Stanton said that the usual live-stock accompaniment of operators' boarding-houses was absent; he thought the intense cold had caused them to hibernate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He pointed to a lattice in one of the college boarding-houses. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Since it was her fate to live in a boarding-house, she must learn to fall in with the conditions of the life. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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