English Dictionary

board

/bɔːd/

noun

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

I wrote a message on the board.

意味（1）

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

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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

We have to wait to hear back from the board.

意味（6）

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

Room and board

意味（7）

(nautical) The side of a ship.

Now board to board the rival vessels row.

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

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

意味（10）

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

Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.

意味（11）

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

to bind a book in boards

意味（12）

(video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.

The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]

意味（13）

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

意味（14）

(computing, Internet) Short for message board.

意味（15）

(computing, Internet) Short for bulletin board.