Usually means: Flat surface for various uses.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. board: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. board: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. board: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. board: Collins English Dictionary
  5. board: Vocabulary.com
  6. Board, board, board: Wordnik
  7. board: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Board, board: Wiktionary
  9. board: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. board: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. board: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. board: Dictionary.com
  13. board (1), board (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. board: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Board (bridge), Board: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Board: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. board: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. board: Rhymezone
  19. board: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. board: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Board, Board: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. board: Free Dictionary
  23. board: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Board, board: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Board: The Word Detective
  26. board: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. board: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. board: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. board: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. board: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. board: CCI Computer
  3. board: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. board: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. board: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. BoARD: Acronym Finder
  3. board: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Board: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. board, board, board, board, board: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. board: Urban Dictionary

Sports (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Board: Dan's Poker
  2. Board: Backgammon
  3. Board: Chess Dictionary
  4. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  5. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Board: Poker Terms
  8. Board: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Board: Glossary of Paper Terms
  5. Paper Making (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
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.]

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