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▸ noun: A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
▸ noun: A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
▸ noun: A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
▸ noun: (nautical) The side of a ship.
▸ noun: (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
▸ noun: (ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
▸ noun: (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
▸ noun: Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
▸ noun: (video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.
▸ noun: (TCGs) The portion of the playing field where creatures or minions can be placed (or played, summoned, etc.).
▸ noun: (bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
▸ noun: (Philippines, local government) A provincial assembly or council.
▸ verb: (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
▸ verb: (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
▸ verb: (transitive, nautical) To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
▸ verb: (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
▸ verb: To cover with boards or boarding.
▸ verb: To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
▸ verb: (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
▸ noun: (basketball, informal) A rebound.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), bulletin board, etc. [A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.]
Similar:
plank,
panel,
table,
instrument panel,
control panel,
room,
circuit board,
dining table,
gameboard,
card,
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