Word Meanings - BOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession. border, margin; cf. D. boord, G. bord, shipboard, and G. borte (more info) plank, Icel. bor board, side of a ship, Goth. f footstool, D. bord 1. A piece

Additional info about word: BOARD

The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession. border, margin; cf. D. boord, G. bord, shipboard, and G. borte (more info) plank, Icel. bor board, side of a ship, Goth. f footstool, D. bord 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc. Note: When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank. 2. A table to put food upon. Note: The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often movable, and placed on trestles. Halliwell. Fruit of all kinds . . . She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand. Milton. 3. Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board. 4. A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus. 5. A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board. 6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards. 7. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BOARD)

• Carpet
• Table
• board
• consideration
• consultation
• Incase
• Inclose
• enshrine
• impanel
• batten

Related words: (words related to BOARD)

• IMPANELMENT
  The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.
• TABLER
  1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson.
• CARPET
  packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be
• TABLEAU VIVANT
  See 2
• TABLEMAN
  A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon.
• CARPETBAG
  A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
• INCASEMENT
  1. The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased. 2. That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure.
• BATTENING
  Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
• ENSHRINE
  To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• CARPETING
  1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.
• TABLESPOON
  A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
• BATTEN
  Etym: 1. To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. "Battening our flocks." Milton. 2. To fertilize or enrich, as land.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• TABLEAU
  1. A striking and vivid representation; a picture. 2. A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
• BOARDER
  One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten. (more info) 1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
• TABLET
  A kind of pocket memorandum book. 5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. (more info) 1. A small table or flat surface. 2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint,
• IMPANEL
  To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. Blackstone.
• CARPETLESS
  Without a carpet.
• INCASE
  To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid. Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• IMPERSCRUTABLE
  Not capable of being searched out; inscrutable. -- Im`per*scru"ta*ble*ness, n.