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Definition: Boarder |
BoarderNoun1. A tenant in someone's house. 2. Someone who forces their way aboard ship; "stand by to repel boarders". 3. A pupil who lives at school during term time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boarder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Tends machine that shapes and dries hose before or after dyeing process, using either of following methods: (1) Pulls hose over leg-shaped forms of machine, aligns toe and heel with form, and pulls welt down to specified point on forms. Presses button or depresses pedal to start conveyor that carries filled set of forms into drying chamber and removes finished set from chamber. Strips shaped hose from boarding forms. (2) Depresses pedal to start circular conveyor that carries forms through drying chamber and automatic stripping mechanism. Pulls and aligns hose over forms as conveyor moves forms in front of worker. Periodically feels surface of forms for roughness to determine need for waxing. May replace $T3toe boards$T1 of boarding forms, using key. May turn valves to increase or decrease steam pressure and temperature of drying chamber according to type of hose being boarded. May be designated according to process as Preboarder (knitting). May tend machine that shapes, dyes, and dries hosiery and be designated Dye-Boarding-Machine Operator (knitting). (references) |
| Feeds and off bears $T3boarding II$T1 equipment that shapes and dries knitted socks: Pulls socks over leg-shaped boarding forms, aligns toe and heel with form, and smooths out wrinkles in leg. Strips shaped socks from forms and stacks socks on tray for further processing. May turn valves to increase or decrease steam pressure and temperature of boarding forms according to type of socks being boarded. (references) | |
| Stacks knitted garments between alternate layers of pressing boards to prepare articles for pressing in hydraulic press. Removes garments from between boards after pressing. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BoarderSynonyms: lodger (n), roomer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter. |
Transientness | Transient, transient boarder, transient guest. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Boarder |
| English words defined with "boarder": dayboy, daygirl. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "boarder": FLY ♦ Pensioners, PRUDENCE. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Boarder" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (border). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But in the hospital you said having a boarder was a good idea (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) Shipping clerk comes home, finds missus with boarder. He breaks dishes (Design for Living; writing credit: Noel Coward; Ben Hecht) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I Want to Be a Boarder (1937) The Four-Star Boarder (1935) Ma Hoggan's New Boarder (1915) The Star Boarder (1914) A Tammany Boarder (1913) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tourist house, Truro. The girl at the easel is a boarder. House belongs to incapacitated fisherman and railroad worker from the Cape Verde Islands. Truro, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Abie the agent. "The false boarder". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hyde park plate" by Christoph Burgdorfer Commentary: "A plate at the boarder of the lake in the hyde park in london." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | And that, in return for this, the prioress would admit his brother into the house as gardener and his niece as boarder. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Human Rights | Tajikistan | International observers and Russian and Tajik Boarder forces also alleged that Tajik and Afghan criminal groups engaged in narcotics smuggling across the border killed members of the border area populations. (references) |
Worker Rights | Poland | La Strada also provides training on prevention and victim support to professionals such as police, boarder guards, prosecutors, judges, social workers, teachers, and journalists. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Boarder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Boarder" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "boarder": bus boarder ♦ day boarder ♦ Half boarder ♦ transient boarder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "boarder": boarder-collie. | |
Ending with "boarder": centre-boarder, child-boarder, day-boarder, ex-boarder, home-boarder, table-boarder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "boarder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | banor (denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, inmate, liver, occupant, occupier, resident, roomer, tenant), konviktor. (various references) | |
Arabic | تلميذ داخلي, ساكن (asleep, calm, constant, dweller, featureless, placid, static, tranquil), المتناول طعامه, الثاوى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пансионерка, пансионер. (various references) | |
Chinese | 房客 (tenant), 寄宿生 . (various references) | |
Czech | strávník (diner), chovanec internátu. (various references) | |
Farsi | شاگردشبانه روزی . (various references) | |
Finnish | täysihoitolainen, sisäoppilas, ruokavieras (customer, diner), ruokailija, asukki (inmate, lodger). (various references) | |
French | pensionnaire. (various references) | |
German | kostgänger (boarders). (various references) | |
Greek | οικότροφοσ, οικότροφος μαθητής. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתאכסן (lodger), תלמיד פנימיה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bentlakó diák, bennlakó (inmate, innate, resident), penzióban lakó, penzióban étkező, kartonozó, internátusi növendék, intézeti növendék, csáklyázó hajó, összeütközést okozó hajó. (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang kos. (various references) | |
Italian | pensionante (lodger, roomer), convittore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 寮生 (boarding student). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボーダー (border), しゅくはくにん (lodger, paying guest), りょうせい (amphibian, amphibious, benign, boarding student, both sexes). (various references) | |
Korean | 하숙인 (roomer). (various references) | |
Manx | scoillar oastys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oarderbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pensionista (guest, inmate, lodger, pensionary, pensioner, retiree), aluno interno. (various references) | |
Romanian | persoanã care stã în pensiune, elev intern. (various references) | |
Russian | нахлебник (freeloader), пенсионер (pensioner, retiree), пансионер (roomer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podstanar (roomer, subtenant). (various references) | |
Spanish | pupilo (pupil, ward), interno (extension, in-house, inner, inside, interior, intern, internal, inward, resident), huésped (delegate, guest, host, resident, roomer). (various references) | |
Swedish | inackordering (board and lodging). (various references) | |
Turkish | yatılı öğrenci, pansiyoner (lodger, paying guest, pensioner, roomer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | школяр інтернату, квартирант-нахлібник, пасажир (passenger, sitter, voyager), пансіонер. (various references) | |
Welsh | byrddiwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "boarder": boarders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "boarder": keyboarder, skateboarder, snowboarder, surfboarder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "boarder": keyboarders, skateboarders, snowboarders, surfboarders. (additional references) | |
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"Boarder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baaader, Barder, Bardere, Bavarde, Bearder, bhadur, biradari, biradiri, Boarden, boardor, boared, boarer, bocardo, Bogaerde, Boiardo, Bonardi, Boorde, bordari, bordier, obrador. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boarder" (pronounced bô"rder) |
| 5 | b ô" r d er | border. |
| 4 | -ô" r d er | Corder, disorder, order, recorder, reorder, warder. |
| 3 | -r d er | Ardor, camcorder, carder, harder, Herder, larder, snowboarder, weirder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arbored, broader, reboard. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: adorer, barred, border, roared. | |
-2 letters: abode, adobe, adore, arbor, ardeb, ardor, barde, bared, barer, barre, beard, board, bored, borer, bread, broad, darer, debar, dobra, drear, oared, orbed, order, oread, rared, rebar, robed. | |
-3 letters: abed, aero, bade, bard, bare, bead, bear, boar, bode, bora, bore, brad, brae, bred, darb, dare, dear, doer, dore, dorr. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: abhorred, adsorber, arboured, boarders, drawbore, harbored, reboards, wardrobe. | |
+2 letters: adsorbers, arborized, bordereau, broodmare, burladero, cornbread, drawbores, freeboard, garderobe, harboured, orderable, overboard, overbroad, reboarded, wardrobes. | |
+3 letters: aerobraked, bardolater, bargeboard, bombardier, bordereaux, borderland, breadboard, broodmares, burladeros, cornbreads, crowbarred, fiberboard, fibreboard, freeboards, garderobes, harborside, keyboarder, linerboard, paperboard, pressboard, reabsorbed, reboarding, recordable, rekeyboard, reprobated, rhabdomere, scoreboard, shortbread, superboard. | |
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