Whiteboard vs Whitebeard - What's the difference?
whiteboard | whitebeard |
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",
(by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to draw a picture together.
As nouns the difference between whiteboard and whitebeard
is that whiteboard is whiteboard (large vertical writing area) while whitebeard is an old man; a greybeard.whiteboard
English
(wikipedia whiteboard)Noun
(en noun)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.