Thick vs Board - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between thick and board

is that thick is the thickest, or most active or intense, part of something 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 verbs the difference between thick and board

is that thick is (archaic|transitive) to thicken while board is to step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.

As an adjective thick

is relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

As an adverb thick

is in a thick manner.

thick

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Adjective

(er)

Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}

Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

Heavy in build; thickset.

* 2007 , James T. Knight, Queen of the Hustle

As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children's storybook.

Densely crowded or packed.

* , chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

Having a viscous consistency.

Abounding in number.

Impenetrable to sight.

Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.

(informal) Stupid.

(informal) Friendly or intimate.

* T. Hughes

We have been thick ever since.

Deep, intense, or profound.

* Shakespeare

thick sleep

Synonyms

* (relatively great in extent from one surface to another) broad * (measuring a certain number of units in this dimension) * (heavy in build) chunky, solid, stocky, thickset * (densely crowded or packed) crowded, dense, packed * (having a viscous consistency) glutinous, viscous * (abounding in number) overflowing, swarming, teeming * (impenetrable to sight) dense, opaque, solid * (sense) unclear * dense, dumb (informal), stupid, thick as pigshit (taboo slang), thick as two short planks (slang) * (sense) chummy (qualifier), close, close-knit, friendly, pally (informal), intimate, tight-knit * great, extreme * See also

Antonyms

* (relatively great in extent from one surface to another) slim, thin * (heavy in build) slender, slight, slim, svelte, thin * (densely crowded or packed) sparse * (having a viscous consistency) free-flowing, runny * (abounding in number) * (impenetrable to sight) thin, transparent * (sense) clear, lucid * brainy (informal), intelligent, smart * (sense) unacquainted

Derived terms

* blood is thicker than water * thick and thin * thick as a brick * thick as a plank * thick as thieves * thick as two short planks * thicket * thickhead * thickish * thickly * thicko * thickness * thickset * thick-skinned * thick-un * thicky

Adverb

(er)

In a thick manner.

Snow lay thick on the ground.

Thickly.

Bread should be sliced thick to make toast.

Frequently; in great numbers.

The arrows flew thick and fast around us.

Noun

(-)

The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.

It was mayhem in the thick of battle.

* Dryden

He through a little window cast his sight / Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.

A thicket.

* Drayton

gloomy thicks

* Spenser

Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.

A stupid person; a fool.

* 2014 , Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All (page 100)

If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks .

Derived terms

* in the thick of * through thick and thin

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To thicken.

The nightmare Life-in-death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold. — Coleridge.

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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.

, 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.}}

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.

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