What's the difference between board and bord?

Board


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
  • (n.) A table to put food upon.
  • (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
  • (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
  • (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
  • (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
  • (n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
  • (n.) The border or side of anything.
  • (n.) The side of a ship.
  • (n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
  • (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
  • (n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
  • (n.) To enter, as a railway car.
  • (n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
  • (n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
  • (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
  • (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
  • (3) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (4) Several selling VCs were also Google investors; one sat on Google's board.
  • (5) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (6) By vaccinating adult dogs in boarding kennels the morbidity rate dropped from 83.5% to 6.5% and the mortality rate from 4.1% to 0.5%.
  • (7) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
  • (8) But what about phenomena such as table tipping and Ouija boards?
  • (9) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.
  • (10) Network #5 conducted a pilot study of state survey results to profile data for Medical Review Board (MRB) analysis and to identify potential areas where educational activities could be focused.
  • (11) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
  • (12) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
  • (13) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (14) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
  • (15) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
  • (16) Sir James Crosby, the ITV senior independent non-executive director, explained why the board had opted to retain Grade's services for an extra year: "It was the unanimous view of ITV's independent non-executive directors that it would be in the best interests of the company and its shareholders to ask Michael to extend his time as executive chairman.
  • (17) Asked whether the club would be in new hands by tonight, he said: "There is a board meeting this evening to determine whether or not that is the case."
  • (18) Born in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin, he has also served on the board of the Washington Post, General Electric, Waterford Wedgwood and the New York Stock Exchange.
  • (19) The performance of candidates on the geriatric medicine items on the American Board of Internal Medicine's 1980, 1981, and 1982 Certifying Examinations was analyzed.
  • (20) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.

Bord


Definition:

  • (n.) A board; a table.
  • (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
  • (n.) See Bourd.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that the cultured amniotic fluid cells was the most reliable material for the prenatal diagnosis of Tay-Sachs disease, because the values of hexoxaminidase A in the cultured cells were well in accord with those in serum from the consequently bord children.
  • (2) Advertisement feature: The CEO of Bord Bia on Ireland’s journey towards a sustainable food system The food hub is funded by The Irish Food Board.
  • (3) In both patients, left coronary arteries presented eccentric lesions with irregular bordes and intraluminal lucencies.
  • (4) During the outbreak reported, it was noted that only young pups were clinically affected and it is suggested that Bord.
  • (5) For cocktails and a taste of the local party scene, stop by Au Bord de L’Eau .
  • (6) Nine hundred and seventy-seven strains of Bordetella pertussis and 6 strains of Bord.
  • (7) Besides these, herpes simplex, measles, influenza A2, influenza B, mumps, poliovirus and respiratory syncytial virus were detected.Bordetella pertussis was isolated from 22% of the cases.It appears that a pertussis-like syndrome can be caused by many agents besides Bord.
  • (8) Clifford has spent the past 45 years poised somewhere between glamour and guttersnipery as the country's leading and most renowned publicist; he has represented Pamella Bordes, Simon Cowell, Mohamed Al Fayed and Steve McClaren among many, and he seems to have approached cancer in much the same way as he might approach a public relations conundrum: "It was trying to make the best of a bad situation," he says at one point.
  • (9) There seems to be a need for methodological studies on the antibiotic susceptibility of Bord.
  • (10) ENGLAND Brown; Watson (Cipriani 62), Joseph, Burrell (Twelvetrees 71), Nowell; Ford, B Youngs (Wigglesworth 71); Marler (M Vunipola 62), Hartley (T Youngs 53), Cole (Brookes 62), Parling (Easter 67), Lawes, Haskell (Wood 67), Robshaw (capt), B Vunipola Sin-bin Haskell 57 Tries B Youngs 2, Watson, Ford, Nowell 2, Vunipola Cons Ford 7 Pens Ford 2 FRANCE Spedding; Huget, Fickou, Mermoz (Bastareaud 71), Nakaitaci; Plisson, Tillous-Borde (Kockott 47); Debaty (Atonio 60), Guirado (Kayser 47), Mas (Slimani 47), Flanquart, Maestri (Taofifenua 67), Dusautior (capt), Goujon (Chouly 62), Le Roux Tries Tillous-Borde, Nakaiaci.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cocktail o’clock at Au Bord de l’Eau.
  • (12) He represented MP David Mellor's mistress, Antonia de Sancha, former Miss India and society escort Pamella Bordes, and Imogen Thomas, briefly famous for her alleged affair with footballer Ryan Giggs.
  • (13) Toulon Halfpenny; Mitchell, Bastareaud, Hernández (Wulf, 66), Habana; Giteau, Tillous-Borde; Chiocci (Menini, 48), Guirado (Orioli, 63), Hayman (capt; Chilachava, 63-76), Botha (Taofifénua, 47), Williams, Smith (Fernández Lobbe, 58), Armitage, Masoe.
  • (14) They conceded possession at a ruck on France’s 10-metre line and Sébastien Tillous-Borde found himself with the prop Dan Cole for company on his 60-metre run to the line before the wing Noa Nakaitaci had a run-in which he nearly blew by going too close to the posts and being pushed out of play by Youngs.
  • (15) Anglo: the Musical, opening at Dublin's Bord Gáis theatre next week, recounts through songs and drama how the Anglo Irish Bank fuelled the property boom and then collapsed, costing the Irish taxpayer up to €30bn to date.
  • (16) By Eniko Horvath, researcher on western Europe and the UN Guiding Principles, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Read more like this: From vegan beef to fishless filets: meat substitutes are on the rise Next-gen urban farms: 10 innovative projects from around the world Advertisement feature: The CEO of Bord Bia on Ireland’s journey towards a sustainable food system The food hub is funded by The Irish Food Board.