Board vs Miserable - What's the difference?
board | miserable |
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.
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
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*:The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
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Wretched; worthless; mean.
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(lb) Causing unhappiness or misery.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:What's more miserable than discontent?
(lb) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
:(Hooker)
As nouns the difference between board and miserable
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 miserable is wretch, scoundrel.As a verb board
is to step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.As an adjective miserable is
destitute, impoverished.board
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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Adjective
(en-adj)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}