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board
  1. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
  2. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
  3. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
  4. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
  5. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
  6. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
  7. (nautical) The side of a ship.
  8. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
  9. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
  10. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
  11. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
  12. (video game) A level or stage having a particular layout.
  13. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
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  15. Examples:
    1. “Then, there's a backing, a wooden board over the back that holds and protects the back of the canvas.”
      “It had been a residential hotel where old ladies paid 17 guineas a week for board and lodging, and Jean had been in the habit of lunching there.”
      “At the same meeting, a new board of directors and a monitoring council are expected to be approved.”
boardsman
  1. (dated) A member (especially male) of a board (governing body).
  2. A surfer.
  3. A record producer; one who works a mixing board.
  4. (dated) A high diver.
  5. (basketball) A basketball player who specialises in rebounds.
  6. (nautical) A sailor on a smack whose job is to bait and shoot the lines
  7. (nautical) One who rides on the boards of a log canoe in order to balance it.
  8. (dated) One who wears a sandwich board.
  9. A chess player.
  10. (dated) A player of draughts/checkers
  11. One who assembles the frames of a ship.
  12. (archaic) One who prepares wigs or artificial hair.
boarder
  1. A pupil who lives at school during term time.
  2. Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.
  3. One who boards a vehicle.
  4. (nautical) A sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy.
  5. Someone who takes part in a boardsport, such as surfing or snowboarding.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The landlord required the boarder to sign a lease agreement before moving into the apartment.”
      “Matthew was a former pupil at the nearby Shrewsbury School, an exclusive private school, where he was a boarder until last summer.”
      “Help them press their hands onto the walls to create a room boarder around the middle of the wall.”
boarding
  1. the act of people getting aboard a ship or aircraft; embarkation
  2. the act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship
  3. a structure made of boards
  4. riding a skateboard
  5. (ice hockey) a penalty called for pushing into the boards
  6. Synonyms:
boardmanship
  1. The attributes of service exhibited by an individual who serves on a board, including (or in particular) ethical principles/concepts/ideas.
  2. The collective attributes characterizing a board’s performance.
  3. The collective traits emerging as a result of a board’s interpersonal interactions in the performance of their assigned responsibilities.
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boardroom
  1. the room where a group of people (especially the board of a company or organization) conducts its meetings
  2. (figuratively) corporations or corporate management considered as a section of society
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “He followed her down a long hallway to a glassed in boardroom where two men stood waiting.”
      “Each show plucks the boss of a major organisation out of the boardroom and deposits them on the shop floor.”
      “There were no corporate raiders, and profit maximization wasn't yet part of the boardroom vocabulary.”
boards
boardsport
  1. Any sport based on riding a board, such as surfing or snowboarding.
board
  1. (basketball, informal) A rebound.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Then, there's a backing, a wooden board over the back that holds and protects the back of the canvas.”
      “It had been a residential hotel where old ladies paid 17 guineas a week for board and lodging, and Jean had been in the habit of lunching there.”
      “At the same meeting, a new board of directors and a monitoring council are expected to be approved.”
boardmanships
  1. plural of boardmanship
boardsports
  1. plural of boardsport
boardsmen
  1. plural of boardsman
  2. Examples:
    1. “The members elected for the consolidated school system were often boardsmen from the parent school systems.”
      “In certain instances we were estranged from denominational boardsmen by their sensitivity to professional prerogative.”
      “The overall record for the team was also broken that night when the Royal boardsmen grabbed 71 bouncebacks.”
boardrooms
  1. plural of boardroom
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “These jokers that have been floating around these boardrooms, they waddle off to their next cup of tea or whatever and that's it.”
      “For three years I lived two lives, shuttling between corporate boardrooms over the Dallas skyline and rowdy street rallies in colonial zocalos.”
      “For those in the mood for work, the business centre has five boardrooms equipped with ISDN lines, a whiteboard, TV, video player and fax lines.”
boardings
  1. plural of boarding
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In July it reported three attempted boardings in less than a week, with pirates firing automatic weapons at two gas tankers and an oil tanker.”
      “Argyll has challenged 150 ships in all, and boardings varied from small dhows to large container ships.”
      “A tourist trolley car was the only operating piece of equipment this day, and they were using the old train depot on the north side of the property for all boardings.”
boarders
  1. plural of boarder
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To support their families, women would bring in piecework from garment factories, make paper flowers to sell, and take in boarders.”
      “Thus, Italian women supplemented the family income by taking in boarders and doing piecework alongside their daughters.”
      “St Margaret's is mainly a day school, but it also has 14 places for boarders which it can offer on a flexible basis.”
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