Stele vs Board - What's the difference?
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* (Geoffrey Chaucer), The Canterbury Tales , "the Tale of the Wyf of Bathe"
(archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
* 1820 , T. S. Hughes, Trav. Sicily , I x 303:
* 1825 , T. D. Fosbroke, Encycl. Antiq. , I v 70:
* 1847 , J. Leitch translating C. O. Müller, Anc. Art , §224 193:
* 1884 , A. Lang, Custom & Myth , 285:
(archaeology, uncommon) Any carved or engraved surface.
* 1877 , A. B. Edwards, Thousand Miles up Nile , VI 143:
(architecture, archaeology, obsolete) An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
* Hosking, "Architecture" in Encyclopædia Britannica , III 470:
(botany) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
* 1895 , Sydney Howard Vines, A Students' Text-book of Botany , 179:
* 1898 , Hobart Charles Porter translating Eduard Strasburger & al. A Text-book of Botany , 109:
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.
As nouns the difference between stele and board
is that stele is while board is a relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making or board can be (basketball|informal) a rebound.As a verb board is
to step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.stele
English
(wikipedia stele)Etymology 1
A parallel etymology to , distinguished via ablaut.Noun
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) . (stele)Alternative forms
* *Noun
(en-noun)- A superior class of members...had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column.
- It appears, that when any one of the family died, a stelè to his memory was added to the tomb.
- In Egypt [obelisks] belonged to the class of steles (commemorative pillars).
- The Australian stele , or grave-pillar.
- Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff.
- Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.
Usage notes
* Although stela'' and ''stele'' were used in antiquity for pillars and columns generally, and continued to carry that meaning when their use was revived in English archaeology and architecture in the 18th and 19th century, respectively, present usage usually distinguishes ''obelisks'', ''columns'', ''shafts'' (the body of a column between the capital and the pediment), etc., from ''stela'' and ''stele , which are used to refer to engraved slabs or small pillars. * Furthermore, although the terms still refer to small pillarlike gravestones from antiquity, the similar-looking herms'' are now often distinguished, as are modern ''gravestones'', ''monuments'', ''boundary markers , etc. * The terms do sometimes refer to undecorated rocks when they have been raised by artificial means in prehistoric times, particularly when they are slab-like, but the large Neolithic menhirs'' are usually distinguished as are Chinese ''scholar's rocks'' or ''Taihu rocks , and other modern uses of upright stones as decoration or signage. * Stele'' is frequently pluralized irregularly as stelae, but this is a hypercorrection arising from confusion with the Latin-derived ''stela . The anglicized Greek plural (stelai) has been used since the late 19th century but is less common than (m).Synonyms
* stelaDerived terms
* actinostele * atactostele * dictyostele * eustele * haplostele * plectostele * protostele * siphonostele * solenosteleEtymology 3
From 1886 (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch...diarch...triarch...tetrarch...polyarch.
- The so-called central cylinder, for which Van Tieghem has proposed the name stele (column).
Anagrams
* * * * ----board
English
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
