board

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

en:long, somewhat wide, thin piece of material

A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.

A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.

Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.

A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

en:clipping of blackboard, surfboard, or others

Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), bulletin board, etc.

We have to wait to hear back from the board.

A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

room and board

(uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.

Now board to board the rival vessels row.

1697, Virgil, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

en:distance between tacks in sailing windward

(nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.

(ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.

Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.

1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

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.

Túrin took a seat without heed, for he was wayworn, and filled with thought; and by ill-luck he set himself at a board among the elders of the realm, and in that place where Saeros was accustomed to sit.

2007, J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Christopher Tolkien, The Children of Húrin:

(archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.

to bind a book in boards

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.

The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]

2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, “Future Shocks”, in Your Sinclair, number 94:

You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies.

2015, Hiddenstuff Entertainment, Candy Crush Soda Saga Game Guide, page 23:

(video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.

(TCGs) The portion of the playing field where creatures or minions can be placed (or played, summoned, etc.).

(bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.

(Philippines, local government) A provincial assembly or council.

en-noun

board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)

→ Japanese: ボード (bōdo)

dhogë

long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material

logement

regular meals or amount paid for them in a place of lodging

korttiteline

duplicate bridge: container for holding pre-dealt cards

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."

inh

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger


board

It is time to board the aircraft.

You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.

1862, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, and Dictionary, for the use of the Midshipmen of the U.S. Navy:

I have just enough time for a "swifty" in the reopened (but on this day just about to close) '301' bar on Platform 4 before boarding a two-car Northern Class 158 working the 1824 to Leeds.

2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:

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

to board one’s horse at a livery stable

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

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

February 8, 1712, Charity Frost, The Spectator No. 296 (letter to the editor)

(transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.

(transitive, nautical) To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.

(intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation

Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.

to board a house

the boarded hovel

1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.

en-verb

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

boards (present singular third-person)
boarding (participle present)
boarded (participle past)
boarded (past)

logies verschaffen

to provide someone with meals and lodging

logeren

to receive meals and lodging in exchange for money


board

boarduri (plural)
board (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
boardul (accusative definite nominative singular)
boarduri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
boardurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
board (indefinite singular)
boardului (definite singular)
boarduri (indefinite singular)
boardurilor (definite plural)
boardule (singular vocative)
boardurilor (vocative)