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Backboard vs Skate - What's the difference?

backboard | skate |

As a noun backboard

is (basketball) the flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.

As a verb skate is

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backboard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
  • (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it. Designed to practice hitting against such that the ball bounces back.
  • (medicine, first aid) A spine board.

    • skate

    English

    Etymology 1

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
  • abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
  • The act of skateboarding
    • There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
  • The act of roller skating or ice skating
    • The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

    Verb

    (skat)
  • To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
  • To skateboard
    • Derived terms
    * get one's skates on * roller-skate * skateboard * skate on thin ice * skatepark * skater

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) skata.

    Noun

    (wikipedia skate) (en noun)
  • A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays]]) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding , and wide [[fin#Noun, fins attached to a flat body.

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