board
What is the Definition of board?
Noun:
- a committee having supervisory powers
- a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
- a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose
- food or meals in general
- a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view
- a table at which meals are served
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
- a flat portable surface (usually rectangular)
Verb:
- get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
- live and take one's meals at or in
- lodge and take meals (at)
- provide food and lodging (for)
How can I use board in a sentence?
According to the large clock over the arrivals board, he had ten minutes left to get on the train to Hogwarts and he had no idea how to do it; he was stranded in the middle of a station with a trunk he could hardly lift, a pocket full of wizard money, and a large owl.
The chessmen seemed to have been listening, because at these words a knight, a bishop, and a castle turned their backs on the white pieces and walked off the board, leaving three empty squares that Harry, Ron, and Hermione took.
The white queen smashed him to the floor and dragged him off the board, where he lay quite still, facedown.
He himself darted around the board, taking almost as many white pieces as they had lost black ones.
His whole body rigid, he swayed where he stood and then fell flat on his face, stiff as a board.
Other meanings of board (synonyms, cognates).
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