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Definitions: Aboveboard |
AboveboardAdjective1. Without concealment or deception; honest; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs". Adverb1. In an honest manner; "in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it"; "was known for dealing aboveboard in everything". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aboveboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: AboveboardSynonyms: straightforward (adj), honestly (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: dishonestly (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Artlessness | Adjective: artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest; innocent; Arcadian; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted. |
Probity | Adjective: upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious; virtuous; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aboveboard |
| English words defined with "aboveboard": Abovedeck ♦ honestly ♦ Underboard. (references) |
Expression using "aboveboard": open and aboveboard. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aboveboard manufacturing | 5 |
aboveboard | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aboveboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | علانية (overtly, overtness, publicity, publicly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 高尚 (HONORABLE, honourable, Noble). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوست کنده (Picked), علنی , اشکارا (Outright). (various references) | |
French | avec franchise, sans ambiguïté, régulier, honnête (above-board), correct, claire. (various references) | |
German | ehrlich (above-board, candid, candidly, downright, fairly, faithfully, frankly, honest, honestly, really, sincere, squarely, straightforward, transparent, truly, upright). (various references) | |
Greek | καθαρός (authentic, clean, clear, genuine, limpid, sheer, utter), νόμιμος (lawful, legal, legitimate, licit), ανοικτός (exposed, open), ανοιχτός (open, unzipped). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tisztességesen (above board, bona fide, decorously, fair and square, square), tisztességes (bona fide, decent, decorous, fair and square, fair dealing, plaited, presentable, reputable, respectable, righteous, snug, there are no flies on him, trustworthy), korrektül (above board, fair, fair and square, fairly, to play fair, to play sy fair, to play the game), korrekt (above board, clean, correct, fair, fair and square, plain dealing, square, there are no flies on him, to feel cheap, white). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tulus hati (disinterested, sincere, wholehearted), ikhlas (prepared, ready, sincere, sincerity, with full surrender). (various references) | |
Italian | aperto (exposed, forthcoming, Frank, obvious, open, out of doors, outright, overblown, overt, raw, semi-intensive, semi-intensive eggs, splay), leale (devout, fair, faithful, honest, loyal, single, staunch, straightforward, true). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 公明正大 (fairness, just and upright), ガラス張り (glass-sided, open to scrutiny). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "うめいせい い (fairness, just and upright), ガラスばり (glass-sided, open to scrutiny). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aboveboarday.(various references) | |
Russian | честно (above board, above-board, fairly, honestly, in good faith, on the level, Square, uprightly). (various references) | |
Spanish | leal (devoted, faithful, fast, frank, honest, loyal, single minded, single-hearted, stalwart, staunch, true, trusty), abiertamente (openly, outright, overtly). (various references) | |
Swedish | öppet (be open, frankly, freely, open, opened, openly, roundly), ärligt (fair, fairly, honestly, on the level, sincerely). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aboveboard" (pronounced ubu"vbô'rd) |
| 4 | -b ô' r d | baseboard, billboard, blackboard, cardboard, checkerboard, chessboard, chipboard, clapboard, clipboard, containerboard, dartboard, dashboard, fiberboard, fibreboard, fingerboard, floorboard, hardboard, headboard, inboard, keyboard, linerboard, mopboard, onboard, outboard, overboard, paperboard, pegboard, plasterboard, pressboard, scoreboard, seaboard, shipboard, skateboard, smorgasbord, snowboard, springboard, storyboard, surfboard, switchboard, wallboard, washboard. |
| 3 | -ô' r d | broadsword, clavichord, concord, harpsichord, landlord, notochord, overlord, underinsured, warlord. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-d-e-o-o-r-v" | |
-3 letters: bravado, bravoed. | |
-4 letters: aboard, abrade, abroad, adverb, barbed, boobed, braved, dabber, dobber, overdo, roadeo, robbed. | |
-5 letters: abode, above, adobe, adobo, adore, ardeb, baaed, baboo, barbe, barde, bared, beard, bevor, board, booed, bored, brava, brave, bravo, bread, broad, brood, debar, dobra, dobro, drave, drove, oared, orbed, oread, raved, robed, rodeo, roved. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 6F 76 65 62 6F 61 72 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... --- ...- . -... --- .- .-. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01101111 01110110 01100101 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b o v e b o a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 006F 0076 0065 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35688188716881678470 |
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