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As nouns the difference between board and cardboard

is that board is a relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making or board can be (basketball|informal) a rebound while cardboard is a wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

As a verb board

is to step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.

As an adjective cardboard is

made of or resembling cardboard.

board

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bord, (etyl) , from (etyl) . (wikipedia board)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=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.}}
  • A device (, 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.
    • Each player starts the game with four counters on the board .
  • Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
  • A committee that manages the business of an organization, , a board of directors .
  • (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
  • (nautical) The side of a ship.
  • * Dryden
    • Now board to board the rival vessels row.
  • (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
  • (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
  • (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
  • * Milton
    • Fruit of all kinds / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.
  • Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
    • to bind a book in boards
    Derived terms
    * poster board * aboard * above board * across the board * baseboard * blackboard * board game * boardroom * boardwalk * board of advirsors * board of directors * board of trustees * bodyboard, body board, body-board * boogieboard, boogie board, boogie-board * bulletin board * chalkboard * checkerboard * chessboard * chipboard * circuit board * clapboard * clapperboard * corkboard, cork-board * dartboard * dashboard * drawing board * duckboard * emery board * floorboard, floor board, floor-board * ironing board * keyboard * off board * on board * particle board * plasterboard * protoboard * room and board * sandwich board * skateboard * skirting board * snowboard * spine board * surfboard * sounding board * thumbboard * outboard * weatherboard * whiteboard
    See also
    * batten * beam * lath * plank * pole * slab * veneer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
    • It is time to board the aircraft.
  • * Totten
    • You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
  • To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
    • to board one's horse at a livery stable
  • To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
  • * Spectator
    • We board in the same house.
  • (nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
  • To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
  • To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
    • Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure
  • To cover with boards or boarding.
    • to board a house
  • * Cowper
    • the boarded hovel
  • To hit (someone) with a wooden board.

    • Etymology 2

    From backboard

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (basketball, informal) A rebound.

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    Anagrams

    * * * 1000 English basic words

    cardboard

    English

    (wikipedia cardboard)

    Noun

  • A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

    • Derived terms

    * cardboard box * cardboard city * cardboard cut-out, cardboard cutout

    See also

    * paperboard

    Adjective

  • Made of or resembling cardboard.
  • * 1868 , Arthur William A'Beckett, "Painted Ships and Painted Oceans", The Tomahawk , page 114:
    • The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.
  • * 1973 , Journal of Black Poetry , Issue 17, page 27:
    • The thing really looked quite cardboard .
  • * 2008 , Katya Hokanson, Writing at Russia's Border , page 122:
    • While Lensky’s character is quite cardboard , Onegin’s manipulations and lack of ability to call off the duel because he fears society’s jibes, Lensky’s youth and naivety, and Tatiana’s reaction to the duel lend the event its gravity.
  • * Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama , page 501:
    • MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.