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Greybeard vs Whiteboard - What's the difference?

greybeard | whiteboard |

As nouns the difference between greybeard and whiteboard

is that greybeard is an old man while whiteboard is whiteboard (large vertical writing area).

greybeard

English

Alternative forms

*graybeard

Noun

(en noun)
  • An old man.
  • Metaphorically, any of the members of a group who have been there the longest (regardless of actual age or gender.)

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    whiteboard

    English

    (wikipedia whiteboard)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large vertical writing area, finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special markers and subsequently erased.
  • * 1995 , Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine
    • Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common space, and the walls were covered with white board , which quickly became a tangle of multicolored lines, words, circles, and squiggles.
  • (by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to draw a picture together.

    • Derived terms

    * whiteboard marker

    See also

    * blackboard * chalkboard * imageboard