Offboard vs Aboard - What's the difference?
offboard | aboard |
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
(baseball) On base.
Into a team, group, or company.
(nautical) Alongside.
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
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, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
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Onto a horse.
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
* 1591 , Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat
As a verb offboard
is to alight, especially from public transit or an aircraft.As an adverb aboard is
on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.As a preposition aboard is
on board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.aboard
English
Adverb
(-)- We all climbed aboard .
- To sling a saddle aboard .
- He doubled with two men aboard , scoring them both.
- The office manager welcomed him aboard .
- The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
- to fall aboard of. (also figuratively)
Preposition
(English prepositions)- We all went aboard the ship.
- Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. -
