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  • 41board — n. & v. n. 1 a a flat thin piece of sawn timber, usu. long and narrow. b a piece of material resembling this, made from compressed fibres. c a thin slab of wood or a similar substance, often with a covering, used for any of various purposes… …

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  • 42board — [bɔːd] checkerboard chessboard cutting dart diving drawing editorial emery ironing board notice (BE) board parole …

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  • 43board — noun 1》 a long, thin, flat piece of wood used for floors or other building purposes.     ↘(the boards) informal the stage of a theatre. 2》 a thin, flat rectangular piece of stiff material, e.g. a chopping board or noticeboard.     ↘the piece of… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 44board — A printed circuit board. Also see circuit board dash board on board diagnostics printed circuit board running board shifting board …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 45board — I. noun Etymology: Middle English bord piece of sawed lumber, border, ship s side, from Old English; akin to Old High German bort ship s side Date: before 12th century 1. obsolete border, edge 2. the side of a ship 3. a. a piece of sawed lumber… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 46board — See: ACROSS THE BOARD, COLLEGE BOARDS, GO BY THE BOARD or PASS BY THE BOARD, ON BOARD, SANDWICH BOARD …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 47board — See: ACROSS THE BOARD, COLLEGE BOARDS, GO BY THE BOARD or PASS BY THE BOARD, ON BOARD, SANDWICH BOARD …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 48Board — (as used in expressions) Bulletin Board System Brown v. Board of Education (de Topeka) National Film Board of Canada National Labor Relations Board Trade, Board of …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 49board — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. council, cabinet, panel, committee, directorate; plank; cardboard; provisions, fare. v. lodge, feed; embark (See departure). See food, attack, layer. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A piece of thin lumber] Syn …

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  • 50board — [OE] Old English bord had a wide range of meanings, whose two main strands (‘plank’ and ‘border, side of a ship’) reveal that it came from two distinct sources: Germanic *bortham and *borthaz respectively (despite their similarity, they have not… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins