BY THE BOARD

Definition: BY THE BOARD

BY THE BOARD

1. Over the board, or side. ``The mast went by the board.'' --Totten. Hence (Fig.), To go by the board , to suffer complete destruction or overthrow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Destruction

Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.

Impotence

Collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke; (fail).

Crosswords: BY THE BOARD

Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Devotion had gone by the board.

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Business

If Korea’s corporate track record is any indication, then transparency will be a hard sell. Reports by the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) released in early November revealed that $22.2 million dollars had been diverted for illegal purposes. (references)

Civil Liberties

Indonesia

In September 2000, the Film Censor Board (LSF) issued a circular to television stations stating that recorded talk shows that discuss social and political topics must be reviewed by the Board before they are broadcast. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

By mid-June 2001, at least 40 applications by foreign investors under this scheme were being processed by the Board of Investment. (references)

Sri Lanka

Out of 17 hospital projects approved by the Board of Investment (BOI) for the private sector health services, 3 projects are at different stages of implementation. (references)

Political Economy

THAILAND

Non-Thai businesses and citizens generally are not permitted to own land unless given permission by the Board of Investment or unless land is on government-approved industrial estates. (references)

NETHERLANDS

Pharmaceuticals: U.S. pharmaceutical companies have complained that the criteria used by the Dutch Health Insurance Board too often result in their new-to-market products being incorrectly classified with compounds determined by the board as "therapeutically equivalent" (and therefore reimbursable at a lower rate) than as "unique, innovative compounds," reimbursed at a higher international reference price. (references)

Trade

Taiwan

All require an import permit issued by the Board of Foreign Trade. (references)

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Expressions using "BY THE BOARD": go by the board ♦ To go by the board. Additional references.

Albanian

bie në det (go by the board). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سقط (bring down, cave, come off, dip, dive, down, drop, drop out, failed, fall, go by the board, settle, skip, spill, sprawl, squirt, topple, trip, tumble), ‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), ‏أهمل (be negligent, default, desert, discount, disregard, forsake, go by the board, lapse, lay aside, lay by, leave out, neglect, omit, overlook, pass, pass over smth., scorn, set apart, skive, slight, throwaway). (various references)

Bulgarian 

провалям се напълно (flop, go by the board), падам в морето (go by the board). (various references)

Czech

ztroskotat (be wrecked, bite, cast away, cave in, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, founder, go by the board, ground, miscarry, shipwreck, wreck), rozplynout (go by the board). (various references)

Danish

medugodkendt (medically approved by the Board of Health). (various references)

Dutch

opgedragen voogdij (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians), door het nationaal farmaceutisch comité goedgekeurd (medically approved by the Board of Health), datieve voogdij (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians). (various references)

Finnish

tuomioistuimen perustama holhous (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians), holhouslautakunnan perustama holhous (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians). (various references)

French

tutelle dative (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians), prendre note (go by the board), de type agréé (medically approved by the Board of Health), être abandonné (go by the board), échouer (go by the board). (various references)

German

durch den Familienrat errichtete Vormundschaft (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians). (various references)

Greek 

πάω με το άνεμο (go by the board), πάω από την επιτροπή (go by the board). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"� טש (go by the board). (various references)

Hungarian

tengerbe esik (to fall overboard, to go by the board), sorsára bíz vmit (to let sg go by the board), félredob vmit (to cast to the wind, to fling to the wind, to let sg go by the board), félre lesz dobva (to go by the board), elvész (disappear, he who hesitates is lost, miscarry, to go by the board, to go to waste, to run to waste), elavulni hagy vmit (to let sg go by the board). (various references)

Italian

tutela dativa (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians). (various references)

Manx

Hie ny mucyn ny hrooid (It went by the board). (various references)

Pig Latin

ybay ethay oardbay.(various references)

Portuguese

tutela dativa (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians). (various references)

Romanian

rupt (out at, ragged, ruptured, seedy, shabby, torn), naufragiat (castaway, shipwrecked, stranded, wrecked). (various references)

Russian 

упасть за борт (go by the board). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

biti odbačen (be thrown away, go by the board), pasti u vodu (go by the board). (various references)

Spanish

ser abandonado (go by the board). (various references)

Swedish

av rätten beslutat förmynderskap (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians). (various references)

Turkish

boşa çıkmak (be blighted, come to naught, come to nothing, come to nought, fail, fizzle, fizzle out, founder, go by the board, puncture), suya düşmek (collapse, come to grief, come to naught, come to nought, come unstuck, fail, fall through, fizzle, fizzle out, flop, go by the board, go phut, go to pot, miscarry, peter out), denize düşmek (go by the board). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bathrobe, throbbed.

-3 letters: aborted, borated, breadth, breathy, drabbet, hydrate, tabored, thready.

-4 letters: barbed, barbet, baryte, batboy, bathed, bather, bertha, betray, boated, boater, borate, bother, boyard, brayed, bready, breath, brothy, byroad, dabber, dearth, deathy, debtor, dehort, dobber, earthy, hatred, hearty, hobbed, hotbed, hydrae, orated, rabbet, rebato, rebody, redbay, robbed, tabbed, theory, thread, yabber.

-5 letters: abbey.