board

English Online Dictionary. What means board‎? What does board mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bôd, IPA^(key): /bɔːd/
• (General American) enPR: bôrd, IPA^(key): /bɔɹd/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōrd, IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōəd, IPA^(key): /boəd/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: bored; baud, bawd (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."

Noun

board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)

2. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
4. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
6. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

8. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), bulletin board, etc.
10. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

12. (uncountable) Regular meals in a place of lodging; the price paid for them.

14. (nautical) The side of a ship.
16. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
18. (ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
20. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
    • 1890, Algernon Blackwood, Christmas in England, Methodist Magazine Volume 32 pg 481.

      The real beginning of the festivities is on Christmas-eve, when the large parties meet their friends from far and near round the festive board.
22. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.

24. (video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.
25. (TCGs) The portion of the playing field where creatures or minions can be placed (or played, summoned, etc.).
27. (bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
28. (Philippines, local government) A provincial assembly or council.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: ボード (bōdo)

Translations

See also

• batten
• beam
• lath
• plank
• pole
• slab
• veneer

Verb

board (third-person singular simple present boards, present participle boarding, simple past and past participle boarded)

1. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.

   Antonyms: alight, disembark

2. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.

3. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
   • February 8, 1712, Charity Frost, The Spectator No. 296 (letter to the editor)

     We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,

5. (transitive, nautical) To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
6. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
7. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
8. To cover with boards or boarding.
9. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
10. (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From backboard.

Noun

board (plural boards)

1. (basketball, informal) A rebound.

Translations

Anagrams

• bardo, Broda, Bardo, dobra, broad, Broad, Broad., Borda, dorab, B road, abord, Dobra, adorb

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English board.

Noun

board n (plural boarduri)

1. board (of an organization)

Declension