(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.
Dashboard
Definition:
(n.) A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.
(n.) The float of a paddle wheel.
(n.) A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
(2) Dashboard, they add, will allow any volunteer for the first time "to join, connect with and build your neighbourhood team online".
(3) This study assessed the effects of dashboard stickers and signature sheets on safety belt use among occupants of state-owned vehicles in three Florida agencies.
(4) And then we have to know how to look at spreadsheets and dashboards and make some sense of them.
(5) His describes his dream as a Star Trek scenario where a Captain Kirk of global financial systems sat at a dashboard with the ultimate spread of data at their fingertips.
(6) According to a statement, officials have been exploring how to increase the number of African American applicants to the law enforcement academy and raise funds for cameras that would be attached to patrol car dashboards and officers’ vests.
(7) Putting aside why anyone would leave a note visible on their dashboard, the Bank says that the polymer does not melt until the temperature hits 120C, surviving anything a British heatwave can throw at it.
(8) They are keeping specific details about Dashboard heavily under wraps for fear that they might lose the substantial advantage they now enjoy over their rivals in the Romney campaign.
(9) The dashboard for April shows retail sales have dropped , inflation is at its highest for more than three years , wages are falling in real terms and Britain’s trade performance has deteriorated .
(10) Their “dashboard” tabulates progress in 14 different regulatory areas.
(11) Laryngeal ruptures are caused by vertical traction on the larynx and trachea, mainly by pushing the chin upon a dashboard or by so called whiplash trauma.
(12) The Hyundai Sonata recently became the first car to roll off the production line with Android Auto, allowing drivers to connect to their smartphones and pull Google Maps and other Google apps directly on to their dashboards.
(13) On the dashboard were three books: a biography of Martin Luther King, Oscar's Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and Thomas Hardy's Tales from Longpuddle.
(14) The major cause of frontal sinus fracture today is a traumatic episode of considerable force, most commonly, contact of the head with the dashboard or steering wheel in a motor vehicle accident.
(15) Every hospital and GP surgery will be required to display "clinical dashboards" showing staff how well they are doing on a range of quality indicators.
(16) 'The economy looks set to be slowing again' - experts debate Brexit watch data Read more The dashboard for February shows a worse than expected performance in three of the eight categories.
(17) She was unable to drive at night until she had a light placed under the dashboard of her car so she could see the foot pedals.
(18) Chicago’s corporation counsel, Stephen Patton, said the dashboard-camera footage had prompted the city’s decision to settle.
(19) With a TV on the dashboard, which just seems irresponsible.
(20) The Dashboard project is being led by Michael Slaby, one of Obama's digital gurus , along with Joe Rospars and Teddy Goff and Obama's director of field organizing Jeremy Bird.