Board vs Broad - What's the difference?

Broad is a anagram of board.

As nouns the difference between board and broad

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 while broad is a prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

As a verb board

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

As an adjective broad is

wide in extent or scope.

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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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

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.

Statistics

Anagrams

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broad

English

Adjective

(er)

Wide in extent or scope.

three feet broad

the broad expanse of ocean

, 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.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian

, title= Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , passage=Julia Farrington, head of arts at Index on Censorship, argues that extra powers to ban violent videos online will "end up too broad and open to misapplication, which would damage freedom of expression".}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

* Bishop Porteus

broad and open day

Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.

* John Locke

a broad mixture of falsehood

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

* D. Daggett

The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.

* E. Everett

in a broad , statesmanlike, and masterly way

Plain; evident.

a broad hint

Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

* Shakespeare

as broad and general as the casing air

(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.

a broad''' compliment; a '''broad''' joke; '''broad humour

(of an accent) Strongly regional.

(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Antonyms

* * (Regarding body width) * (Not palatalized)

Derived terms

* breadth * broaden * broad across the beam * broad in the beam * broadscale * broad strokes * broadsword * broad church * broadcloth * broad agreement

Noun

(en noun)

(dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

(US) A woman or girl.

Who was that broad I saw you with?

(UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

(Knight)

Synonyms

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