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board / bôrd/ • n. 1. a long, thin, flat piece of wood or other hard material, used for floors or other building purposes: loose boards creaked as I walked on them. ∎ (the boards) inf. the stage of a theater. 2. a thin, flat, rectangular piece of wood or other stiff material used for various purposes, in particular: ∎ a vertical surface on which to write or pin notices. ∎ a horizontal surface on which to cut things, play games, or perform other activities. ∎ a flat insulating sheet used as a mounting for an electronic circuit: a graphics board. ∎ the piece of equipment on which a person stands in surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and certain other sports. ∎ (boards) the wooden structure surrounding an ice-hockey rink. ∎ (usu. boards) Basketball informal term for backboard, referring specifically to rebounding: the absence of center David Robinson to dominate on the boards. 3. [treated as sing. or pl.] a group of people constituted as the decision-making body of an organization: he sits on the board of directors 4. the provision of regular meals when one stays somewhere, in return for payment or services: your room and board will be free. • v. 1. [tr.] get on or into (a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle): we boarded the plane for Oslo [intr.] they would not be able to board without a ticket. ∎ (be boarding) (of an aircraft) be ready for passengers to embark: flight 172 to Istanbul is now boarding at gate 37. 2. [intr.] live and receive regular meals in a house in return for payment or services: the cousins boarded for a while with Ruby. ∎ (of a student) live at school during the semester in return for payment. ∎ [tr.] (often be boarded) provide (a person or animal) with regular meals and somewhere to live in return for payment: dogs may have to be boarded at kennels. 3. [tr.] (board something up) cover or seal a window, storefront, or other structure with pieces of wood: the shop was still boarded up. PHRASES: go by the board (of something planned or previously upheld) be abandoned, rejected, or ignored: my education just went by the board. on board on or in a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle. ∎ inf. onto a team or group as a member: the need to bring on board a young manager. ∎ inf. (of a jockey) riding. ∎ Baseball on base. ORIGIN: Old English bord, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boord and German Bort; reinforced in Middle English by Old French bort ‘edge, ship's side’ and Old Norse borth ‘board, table.’ |
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"board." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "board." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-board.html "board." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-board.html |
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1. The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward. Thus a ship tacking across the wind to reach a point to windward of its present position can make short or long boards according to the frequency of her tacks; the more she tacks the shorter the boards. 2. To make a good board, to sail in a straight line when close hauled making only the minimum of leeway. 3. To make a stern board, to come up head to wind so that the vessel stops and makes way astern until she falls off on the opposite tack, often a very seamanlike operation when navigating in narrow channels. 4. To board it up, an old term used by seamen meaning to beat up to windward. 5. To go on board, to go aboard a ship. 6. To slip by the board, to desert a ship by escaping down its side. 7. By the board, close to the deck as when a mast is broken off close to the deck, or goes by the board. 8. When used as a verb, it describes the action of going alongside an enemy vessel and overwhelming its crew with an armed boarding party. See also boarders; enter, to. |
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"board." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "board." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-board.html "board." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-board.html |
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board flat piece of wood; table (now only as used for meals); border, edge (now only in seaboard); ship's side. OE. bord combines two orig. distinct Gmc. words: (i) a str. n. = OS. bord, MHG., G. bort board, ON. borð, Goth. (fōtu)baurd :- Gmc. *borðam; (ii) a str. m. = OS. bord, ON. borð :- Gmc. *borðaz. The OE. words were reinforced in ME. by the uses of F. bord (of Gmc. orig.).
Hence board vb. XV. |
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T. F. HOAD. "board." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "board." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-board.html T. F. HOAD. "board." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-board.html |
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Boarda council convened for business; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit on a committee. Examples: board of commissioners; of directors, 1712; of governors; of guardians. |
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"Board." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Board." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505300137.html "Board." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505300137.html |
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board n. a distance covered by a vessel in a single tack.
v. get on or into (a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle). |
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"board." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "board." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-board.html "board." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-board.html |
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board. Thin, long slab of timber no more than 5 cm thick.
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JAMES STEVENS CURL. "board." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES STEVENS CURL. "board." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-board.html JAMES STEVENS CURL. "board." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-board.html |
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•aboard, abroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, chord, Claude, cord, ford, fraud, gaud, Gawd, hoard, horde, laud, lord, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored, ward
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"board." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "board." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-board.html "board." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-board.html |
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