What's the difference between board and rink?

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.

Rink


Definition:

  • (n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
  • (n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Putin rink side and asked him about the firing of former.
  • (2) Regular rink days are Thursday to Sunday, until 10:30pm.
  • (3) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
  • (4) Even one outdoor ice rink in cold-accustomed South Dakota is shutting down.
  • (5) Alexandra Palace Ice Rink , London N22 ( sadlerswells.com ) , 28-31 October.
  • (6) There was still no football at Halifax, but the local club opened its ground as a public ice rink and hundreds skated on it."
  • (7) And yet Sprague remained in awe of her former boss ( despite an acrimonious departure which resulted in her suing the company ), recalling the times his obsessive attention to detail uncovered the misalignment of terraces during the construction of Trump Tower, or drove the renovation of Central Park’s ice rink in 1981.
  • (8) He missed the place: the cold, the skating rinks, the desperate need for mittens in winter.
  • (9) A group of men outside were spraying the street with water from a fire hose in order to create a frozen ice rink that would be too slippery for riot police to attack from.
  • (10) At the other end of the rink, Jonathan Quick can be inhumanly mesmerizing when called upon by the Kings to save the day.
  • (11) UVM is turning its ice rink into Sno Cones Photograph: University of Vermont Hat tip: AKenyon 6.45pm BST Apartment Therapy said that the Museum of Modern Art is launching a pregnancy tracker app that compares the size of your baby to the size of works in its collection.
  • (12) A prospective survey has been made of the injuries to members of the public attending a well established ice rink in a major city.
  • (13) Better rink discipline, instruction classes and safety publicity should be helpful in minimising accidents.
  • (14) His speech began with a ramble through Manhattan geography, followed by a tutorial on ice skating rinks: “You want rubber hose, and you want water, and in the water you want salt so it doesn’t freeze.” Then he described his idea of New York values: policemen and firefighters; transit workers who “keep those trains and buses going and everything else”; families in Central Park, “some together, some not”.
  • (15) The opening of an ice rink resulted in 469 attendances at the local Accident and Emergency department over the first year.
  • (16) The range of injuries sustained at an ice-rink and presented to an Accident Service department is described.
  • (17) A., Berg, C., Hendrick, J. P., LaBranche-Chabot, H., Metspalu, A., Rinke, J., and Yario, T. (1988) J.
  • (18) Three ways of minimizing leakage are as follows: (1) Use a less leaky indicator, such as BCECF (Rink et al., 1982); (2) lower the incubation temperature; (3) continuously remove external indicator by perfusion technique (Boron, 1982).
  • (19) They also suggest, although they do not prove, that the translocation of these cations occurs through an agonist-operated channel as proposed by Hallam and Rink (FEBS Lett.
  • (20) Dustin Brown grabs, lifts and skates the Cup around the rink - he is the first American born captain to win it twice, both with the Kings, who now have two titles in three seasons.