board

CEFRA1

/bɔːd/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A flat piece of wood or a group managing an organization.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • The Board of Education governs the schools.

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

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /boːd/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

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

  3. Regular meals in a place of lodging; the price paid for them.

More examples

In context

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

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

  • We have to wait to hear back from the board.

Antonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

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

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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 (“tab...