What's the difference between aboard and overboard?

Aboard


Definition:

  • (adv.) On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
  • (adv.) Alongside; as, close aboard.
  • (prep.) On board of; as, to go aboard a ship.
  • (prep.) Across; athwart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
  • (2) Twenty-one subjects flew aboard a KC-135 aircraft operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which performed parabolic maneuvers resulting in periods of 0-g, 1-g, and 1.8-g. Each subject flew once with a tablet containing scopolamine and once with a placebo in a random order, crossover design.
  • (3) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
  • (4) The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
  • (5) De Boer's successor's first tasks will be to keep the US aboard the negotiations and to clear up the vexed question of the legal status of the Copenhagen accord , the deal struck at Copenhagen by a small group but not endorsed by a majority of countries.
  • (6) Saadi's entire family were bundled aboard an aircraft in Hong Kong and flown to Tripoli in March 2004.
  • (7) Winterton used these acceptances to persuade others to climb aboard: “Andy is in, Hilary is in.” Corbyn was on the phone to Chuka Umunna, then shadow business secretary, who had been careful to brief that he was not going to immediately walk out but wait to see what Corbyn said on policy.
  • (8) The kidnap and execution of the then Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades , the murderous bomb in Bologna station in 1980 and others in Milan, Brescia and aboard a train were, differently, expressions of what Italians call the “strategy of tension” by the state.
  • (9) Illness incidence was examined aboard U.S. Navy vessels to ascertain whether sick call rates vary with ship size.
  • (10) The migrants rescued on Tuesday had been aboard five motorised dinghies and two larger vessels.
  • (11) A point source outbreak of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Inaba infections occurred aboard an oil rig south of Port Arthur, Texas, in September 1981.
  • (12) The National Enquirer later published a picture of Rice in Hart’s lap aboard a yacht called Monkey Business.
  • (13) FO: OK. Minutes later, the plane plunged into a field, killing all 68 aboard.
  • (14) She's in that top tier of stars among whom the (allegedly) choicest scripts circulate incestuously until one of them jumps ship or another climbs aboard.
  • (15) Vote Leave tweeted a new version of Johnson’s London mayoral campaign cartoon of him with the simple message: “Welcome aboard, @ BorisJohnson !
  • (16) In 1974 the USSR carried out a rat experiment aboard the biosatellite Cosmos-690 equipped with a gamma-emitter.
  • (17) Australia's former environment minister, Ian Campbell, told Australian television from aboard a Sea Shepherd vessel that the group would "have to get organised to go out to the oceans and save the whales off South Korea".
  • (18) A group of passengers aboard one of Vinson’s two Frontier Airlines flights are being monitored for symptoms.
  • (19) Pamela Dix, Executive Director of Disaster Action, supporting those caught up in terrorism or disaster, began campaigning after her brother Peter died aboard Pan Am flight over Lockerbie in 1988.
  • (20) The Downton journey has been amazing for everyone aboard,” said Fellowes, who wants to start focusing his attention on his long-awaited US drama The Gilded Age for NBC .

Overboard


Definition:

  • (adv.) Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A traveler can go overboard in an attempt to avoid diarrheal illness.
  • (2) His announcement came hours after the Daily Telegraph reported the coaching allegations under the headline “Truth overboard”.
  • (3) People tend to get carried away, that’s going overboard completely,” Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka told the Guardian.
  • (4) With the captaincy, especially in England, we maybe go a bit overboard on it.
  • (5) Even today's chucking overboard of chairman Marcus Agius smacks of a firm doing the least it can, and hoping it doesn't have to do any more.
  • (6) Sewage collected in these pails was often dumped overboard into the harvesting area.
  • (7) We also went halfway towards rethinking the party itself in terms of new community organising models, but then that was also tossed overboard in favour of a much more centralised vote-harvesting operation around voter ID.
  • (8) The owner’s wife threatened to throw her passport overboard so she’d never see her family again.’ The next morning I saw her with her hands around the same girl’s throat.
  • (9) Those who were too ill to work were thrown overboard, some interviewees reported, while others said they were beaten if they so much as took a lavatory break.
  • (10) Labor in opposition, after the devastating defeat of 1996, threw overboard all of the work of the Keating government in a desperate attempt to distance itself from high interest rates, high unemployment, budget “black holes” and perceptions of arrogance.
  • (11) Towards the end of her time at sea, Azima saw an old man jump overboard after days of not eating or drinking.
  • (12) But by the time they had reached Hungary, prosperity was a distant memory and most of their possessions had gone, some stolen, others thrown overboard during the treacherouscrossing between Turkey and Greece.
  • (13) Several witnesses, including Fasher, say the boat was intercepted by Australian authorities after asylum seekers called for help when four passengers were washed overboard by an enormous wave.
  • (14) It is Tony Abbott's Tampa and together with the secrecy, you've got to wonder whether it's Scott Morrison's children overboard,” Hanson-Young said on Wednesday.
  • (15) ISS may recommend against ‘overboarded’ directors,” the advisory service said.
  • (16) "All of the camera equipment went overboard, and we were in the water, Leo, and everyone, and this incredibly heavy stuff was just being hurled about on eight-foot waves."
  • (17) And they knew that when any government measure, no matter how carefully crafted or beneficial, is subject to scorn; when any efforts to help people in need are attacked as un-American; when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom; and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter that at that point we don't merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges.
  • (18) 36 That or there was one guy in every 100 who went massively overboard and bought 22 backups.
  • (19) "They need to be governed themselves because at times they go overboard on the rights."
  • (20) Italy’s coast guard was also searching the waters between Libya and Sicily after 107 survivors rescued from an overcrowded dinghy told authorities about 20 people had fallen overboard and their smugglers would not stop to pick them up.

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