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1.nounA relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
2.nounA device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
3.nounA flat surface with markings for playing a board game."Each player starts the game with four counters on the board."
4.nounShort for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
5.nounA committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors."We have to wait to hear back from the board."
6.nounRegular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging."Room and board"
7.nounThe side of a ship.
8.nounThe distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
9.nounThe wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
10.nounA long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
11.nounPaper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard."to bind a book in boards"
12.nounA level or stage having a particular layout.
13.nounA container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
14.verbTo step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance."It is time to board the aircraft."
15.verbTo provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money."to board one's horse at a livery stable"
16.verbTo receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
17.verbTo capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
18.verbTo obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
19.verbTo approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
20.verbTo cover with boards or boarding."to board a house"
21.verbTo hit (someone) with a wooden board.
22.verbTo write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.