Boards

Word BOARDS
Character 6
Hyphenation boards
Pronunciations /bɔːdz/

Definitions and meanings of "Boards"

What do we mean by boards?

A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.

A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.

A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.

A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.

The side of a ship.

The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.

The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.

A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.

A level or stage having a particular layout.

A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.

Slang used to describe a pair of skis used for the sport of snow skiing. Urban Dictionary

Abbreviated term for 'board shorts.' board shorts, the optimal garment of choice for the summer months, are also useful in cold weather conditions, in hot tubs & the like. Urban Dictionary

Usually refers to board shorts, the garment of choice to some throughout the year. innovators of the boards are sean dwyer & mike tyrrell. Urban Dictionary

How retarded people spell the word bored. Urban Dictionary

A slang term for rebounds used most commonly in basketball. Urban Dictionary

1) What happens to members of a startup company who are not present at the board meeting. 3) To be screwed over. Urban Dictionary

A board is a female who is overwhelmingly attracted that you can't take your eyes off of them and that you have no chances of hooking up. It is a word mostly used in class when someone is looking at the "board" but they are actually looking at the female in front of the real board. Urban Dictionary

Short for skateboard, snowboard, wakeboard, surfboard, and any other word the contains "board". Was shortened because it rolls off the tounge easier and sounds better in a sentence. Urban Dictionary

How idiotic person says Boardwalk. Urban Dictionary

In Texas Hold 'Em Poker, the community cards dealt face up on the table. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Boards

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The word "boards" in example sentences

_Cutting boards_, wedge-shaped boards somewhat like backing boards, but with the top edge square; used in cutting the edge of a book and in edge-gilding. ❋ Douglas Cockerell (1894)

_Cutting in boards_, cutting the edges of a book after the boards are laced on. ❋ Douglas Cockerell (1894)

He taught us all kinds of funny sayings, like “When in doubt, get out!” that we wrote in huge black letters on his tag boards of wisdom. ❋ Randy Couture With Loretta Hunt (2008)

CAUTION: Time spent surfing writing bulletin boards, is not time spent writing! ❋ Zornhau (2004)

You will think me very discouraging, but I cannot help it, and I am also afraid that putting plays experimentally on the boards is a very costly entertainment. ❋ Unknown (1913)

The torrent of exaggerated and often shocking verbal abuse to which Corrie was subjected, postmortem, on right-wing bulletin boards and Web sites. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some form of this statement appears seemingly everywhere from cheesy church bulletin boards to a great Elvis Costello song. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most other bulletin boards are very area specific, Mazatlan, San Miquel de Allenda, Chapala etc. and almost completely contributed to by people not born and raised in Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For instance, a book with a cloth spine and corners and covers of paper-covered boards is termed “Half-Cloth”; a book with a leather spine and corners and cloth or paper-covered boards is termed “Half-Leather”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I spend a lot of time reading bulletin boards and utility poles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To find our current place, we scoured the bulletin boards at the Lake Chapala Society, and local grocery stores and other places with rental notices from property owners (not agencies). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Word on the tracking boards is that Wanted/Night Watch helmer Timur Bekmambetov attached to direct, although this remains officially unconfirmed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Word on the tracking boards is the pitch sold for mid-six figures. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Somebody] ripped-off my [new] boards! ❋ The Snow Prophet (2010)

['yo] [tyrrell], cop me a pair of boards [pronto].' ❋ Jsnyd (2005)

'ayo [tyrrell] let me cop a pair of boards.' (subsequently, t would go to the whip and return with an assortment of three to four [multicolored] pairs of [board shorts].) ❋ Jsnyd (2005)

[Keith]: "[Board] [tonite] call with plans." Me: "You're retarded." ❋ Urbanwordconnoisseur (2010)

"[Get the] [boards]! [Box out]!" ❋ Paspaspas (2014)

Everyone but top [management] is getting boarded in the next [board meeting]. [Across the board] pay cuts and stock dilution for, because employees are objects you screw profits out of. ❋ MarkHGoldstein (2013)

Wow, that "[board]" has a [fine] [figure]. ❋ DamnDude (2018)

That guy was [grinding] and his board [snapped] and he [sacked] himself ❋ Andrew Jerabek (2006)

"[I'm going to] [the boards] [guys]." ❋ Randomguy123469076 (2016)

"With two [aces] on board, there was no way I could call his [all-in] with just my pocket [deuces]." "When my third six hit the board, I knew I had him." ❋ Coell (2005)

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