Boarded vs Border - What's the difference?
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(board)
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 outer edge of something.
* Bentham
* Barrow
A decorative strip around the edge of something.
A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
* 2013 , Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins,
(British) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
To put a border on something.
To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
To touch at a border (with on'' or ''upon ).
To approach; to come near to; to verge.
* Archbishop Tillotson
As a verb boarded
is (board).As a noun border is
.boarded
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
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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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* * * 1000 English basic wordsborder
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(wikipedia border)Noun
(en noun)- the borders of the garden
- upon the borders of these solitudes
- in the borders of death
Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian , 1 May 2013)
- The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
Derived terms
* borderlinking * borderspace, borderspacingVerb
(en verb)- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
