board
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: A wooden board
Board (duplicate bridge)
From Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; edge; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, top”) + *-dʰeti or *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”) + *-dʰeti. The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."
Cognates
Cognate with Scots buird (“board; table”), Yola borde (“table”), West Frisian boerd (“board”), Dutch bord (“dish, plate; board, plank; sign”), boord (“border, boundary; bank, shore”), German Bord (“shelf”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish bord (“plank; table”), Elfdalian buord (“table”), Faroese and Icelandic borð (“board, plank; table”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (*baurd, “board, plank”) (whence 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (fōtubaurd, “footstool”).
Inflected forms:
form: boards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boarded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: boord
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bord
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is time to board the aircraft.
You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
Yuan-chu-min history, that of the island’s southern Min speaking Han Chinese, is in evidence farther east, in Nan-t'ou county. After reaching the heart of Nan-t'ou' city, the county’s center of government and also home to Taiwan’s provincial government, one can board a bus to ascend the mountains that dominate much of the central and eastern landscape of the island.
I have just enough time for a "swifty" in the reopened (but on this day just about to close) '301' bar on Platform 4 before boarding a two-car Northern Class 158 working the 1824 to Leeds.
gloss: To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to board one’s horse at a livery stable
gloss: To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,
gloss: To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure […]
gloss: To cover with boards or boarding.
pos: verb
examples: to board a house
the boarded hovel
gloss: To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
pos: verb
gloss: To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: board up
boarding ax
boarding axe
boarding gate
boarding house
boarding-master
boarding pass
boarding pike
boarding school
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