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Boarded vs Boarding - What's the difference?

boarded | boarding |

As verbs the difference between boarded and boarding

is that boarded is (board) while boarding is .

As a noun boarding is

the act of people getting aboard a ship or aircraft; embarkation.

boarded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (board)
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    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.
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  • , 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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    boarding

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of people getting aboard a ship or aircraft; embarkation
  • * 2000 , Peter Gregory Furth, Data Analysis for Bus Planning and Monitoring (page 24)
  • Load profiles are a standard analysis tool showing passenger activity (boardings , alightings) and passenger load at each stop along a route in a single direction.
  • the act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship
  • a structure made of boards
  • riding a skateboard
  • (ice hockey) a penalty called for pushing into the boards
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