What is the difference between board and land?
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A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
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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.
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
(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
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
* Totten
To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
* Spectator
(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:
To cover with boards or boarding.
* Cowper
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
A country or region.
A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
realm, domain.
(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
(Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
(obsolete) The ground or floor.
* Spenser
(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
# (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
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, chapter = Ballistics
, first = Lisa
, last = Steele
, title = Science for Lawyers
, editor = Eric York Drogin
, publisher = American Bar Association
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, passage = The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands' and grooves, direction of twist, and width of ' lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.
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, people = Jonny Lee Miller
, role = Sherlock Holmes
, passage = The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.
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To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
* 1859 , “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways , page 108:
To come into rest.
To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
To bring to land.
* Shakespeare
To acquire; to secure.
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To deliver.
Of or relating to land.
Residing or growing on land.
In nautical terms the difference between board and land
is that board is the distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward while land is the lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.In transitive terms the difference between board and land
is that board is to receive meals and lodging in exchange for money while land is to deliver.In intransitive terms the difference between board and land
is that board is to obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation while land is to arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.As an adjective land is
of or relating to land.As a proper noun Land is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bord, (etyl) , from (etyl) . (wikipedia board)Noun
(en noun)- Each player starts the game with four counters on the board .
- Now board to board the rival vessels row.
- Fruit of all kinds / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.
- 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 * whiteboardSee also
* batten * beam * lath * plank * pole * slab * veneerVerb
(en verb)- It is time to board the aircraft.
- You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
- to board one's horse at a livery stable
- We board in the same house.
- Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure
- to board a house
- the boarded hovel
Etymology 2
From backboardStatistics
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
- Most insects live on land .
- There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
- They come from a faraway land .
- wet land'''; good or bad '''land for growing potatoes
- I'm going to Disneyland .
- Maybe that's how it works in TV-land , but not in the real world.
- He got an awful land when the police arrived.
- Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
- Herself upon the land she did prostrate.
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* bookland * brushland * bushland * cloud cuckoo-land * Crown land * Disneyland * downland * dry land * fantasy land * farmland * fat of the land * flatland * flogging the land * glebe-land * grassland * highland * homeland * Lalaland * land ahoy * land bridge * land degradation * land down under * land bridge * land line, landline * land mark * land mass, landmass * land mine, landmine * land of opportunity * land of the free * land yacht * landfall * landfill * landform * landholder * landlady * landless * landlocked * landlord * landlubber * landman * landmark * land poor * landscape * landslide * land use (see also ) * landward/landwards * law of the land * lay of the land * mainland * moorland * no man's land * on land * outland * overland * pastureland * pineland * playland * plowland * revenue land * spit of land * TV land * upland * wildland * woodlandVerb
(en verb)- The plane is about to land .
- 10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed .
- It can be tricky to land a helicopter .
- Use the net to land the fish.
- I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
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