Definition of "board"

board¹

/bɔːd/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural boards
1. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
  Quotations
  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.
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, circuit board, 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.
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  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, […]
8. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
9. (ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
10. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
  Quotations
  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], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  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
11. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
12. (video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.
  Quotations
  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
13. (bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards. Board (duplicate bridge)
14. (computing, Internet) Short for message board.
15. (computing, Internet) Short for bulletin board.
16. (Philippines, local government) A provincial assembly or council.
verb
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.
  Quotations
  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
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.
  Quotations
  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)
4. (transitive, nautical) To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
5. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
6. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
  Quotations
  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
7. To cover with boards or boarding.
  Quotations
  the boarded hovel
  1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […]
8. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
9. (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.

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/bɔːd/

noun
plural boards
1. (basketball, informal) A rebound.

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