How do you use the word "board" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "board" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "board": The local school board would go to any length to ban that book. The Board of Education governs the schools.

Board Meaning

/bɔːd/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

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

Sentence Examples

The local school board would go to any length to ban that book.

The Board of Education governs the schools.

There was a notice on the board saying the class had been cancelled.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

room plank

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The flight attendant announced that all passengers should ____ the aircraft immediately.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The director decided to ____ the plane early to avoid the long line.

Word Origin & History

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”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"Now board to board the rival vessels row." — 1697, Virgil, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

"Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand." — 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

""A man," added Cripps, pointing at the MacQuibble, who took no manner of notice, but smoked impassively, "who comes to my hospitable board meanly disguised as an artist, and filches the table wine."" — 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 17:

"“Take your seat at my board, and let me drink to your health.”" — 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 26:

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