board | |
1. s. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making. | |
2. s. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc. | |
3. s. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game. | |
Each player starts the game with four counters on the board. | |
4. s. (Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.) | |
5. s. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors. | |
We have to wait to hear back from the board. | |
6. s. Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging. | |
Room and board | |
7. s. (nautical) The side of a ship. | |
8. s. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward. | |
9. s. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural. | |
10. s. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall. | |
11. s. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard. | |
to bind a book in boards | |
12. s. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout. | |
13. s. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards. | |
14. v. To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance. | |
It is time to board the aircraft. | |
15. v. To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money. | |
to board one's horse at a livery stable | |
16. v. To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money. | |
17. v. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party | |
18. v. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation | |
19. v. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost. | |
20. v. To cover with boards or boarding. | |
to board a house | |
21. v. To hit (someone) with a wooden board. | |
22. v. To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard. | |
23. s. (basketball, informal) A rebound. | |