(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.
(n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
(n.) A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
(n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
(n.) Direction; guide.
Example Sentences:
(1) The system has been successfully used for 18 months to create directories for a teaching file, for presentations, and for clinical research.
(2) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(3) Anti-radicalisation is the whole community’s responsibility to deal with, not just the Muslim community.” Other critics point to provisions in the funding deed for the directory that allow the department to disclose confidential information about participants “to the responsible minister or prime minister”, or to a parliamentary committee.
(4) Patients admitted for the first AMI at 2 hospitals in Fukuoka City were aged 40 to 69 years, and control subjects were recruited based on the telephone directory of the city.
(5) On the basis of these findings, we conclude that PTH has the directory vasodepressive action and the effect of augmentation of the left ventricular contractile force.
(6) A computer-formatted directory was produced, with access via geographic location, personal name, organizational name, and keyword.
(7) You can find customer testimonials at online directory Allagents.co.uk .
(8) The resulting directory, published in July 1988, lists 494 programs involving 84 countries: 319 in medicine, 44 in dentistry, 30 in pharmacy, and 101 in public health.
(9) The Physician's Desk Reference and the United States Pharmacopeia Drug Information directory contain numerous warnings of potential interactions between topical glaucoma medications and systemically administered drugs.
(10) Jay Kennedy is head of policy at the Directory of Social Change This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
(11) It was here – "possibly in this very seat" – that his father made the fateful decision to watch his son's writing and directorial debut, a 2009 short called What Will Survive of Us , unaware that this Todd Solondz-inspired work was largely concerned with the topic of anal sex.
(12) Using another sample of death certificates, comparisons of the information for 322 decedents with city directory data produced similar results.
(13) Ninety-two percent of the respondents indicated a need for reviews of films and videotapes pertinent to occupational therapy, either in a directory--or a directory, with monthly reviews of new materials in the Occupational Therapy Newspaper or AJOT.
(14) The helpline, which gets one third of its funding from government and the rest from the finance industry, doesn't advertise its services but is listed in telephone directories.
(15) But the internal directory lists her as reporting directly to the chief financial officer, Tom Szkutak, not to Bezos.
(16) Systematic random sampling was used, and 1 out of 25 phone numbers were selected from the county telephone directory.
(17) I now have a pretty comprehensive mental directory of the helpful pharmacists and the unhelpful pharmacists in central London .
(18) An upgrade is required for the online and catalogue Directory business, as Next admits.
(19) Members of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists were asked to supply information about their current programs and their own graduate training in order to compile a training directory and to analyze certain aspects of the discipline.
(20) At the same time as it decided to offload RBI, the company announced the £2.1bn acquisition of US risk-management business ChoicePoint to complement its suite of professional data businesses such as tax bible Tolley's and legal directory Butterworths.