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Definition: Boarding |
BoardingNoun1. The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft. 2. A structure of boards. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boarding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A wooden covering laid over the exterior of the framework of a structure, for attachment of roofing and external wall coverings, and also used as an undercovering for floors. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A wooden covering, particularly of boards, to a floor, wall or roof, or in a similar position. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | A process, involving heating under moist or dry conditions, carried out to confer a desired shape or size on a stocking or other knitted garment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | The act of entering a public transport vehicle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BoardingSynonyms: embarkation (n), embarkment (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: debarkation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attack | Storm, storming; boarding, escalade; siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade. |
School | Day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Darling, haven't you ever heard of a delightful little thing called boarding school (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II) I've got a husband, a grandson, and a boarding house full of people to be responsible for. (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Luís Filipe Rocha) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hot Boarding House (1970) Boarding House Blues (1948) The Boarding House (1917) Mrs. Prune's Boarding House (1915) The Actor's Boarding House (1915) | |
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 | Fig. 1. Blubber mincing knife. Fig. 2. Boarding knife. Fig. 3. Monkey-belt Fig. 4. Wooden toggle. Fig. 5. Chain-strap. Fig. 6. Throat-chain Fig. 7. Fin toggle. Fig. 8. Head-strap. Fig. 9. Blubber hook. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Caption: New Jersey & Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, Boarding House and Office Building; Ogdensburg, NJ; Unknown Date; {26.111/55} (jpg). |
 | [Army Nurses boarding transport ship headed overseas]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [PHS officer boarding boat]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Engraving published in Harper's "History of the Great Rebellion", page 421, depicting Confederates boarding the Harriet Lane from the C.S. gunboats Neptune and Bayou City. Credit: NAVY. |  | Engraving, published in "History of the Confederate States Navy", page 505, depicting Confederate troops boarding Harriet Lane from C.S. gunboats Neptune and Bayou City. Credit: NAVY. |
 | American troops boarding transport steamer, Spanish-American war. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The unfortunate "barb" who is left to the promiscuous friendships of the cheap boarding house. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Our boarding house] The start of a big flo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Summer pastimes. Making your home at the old boarding house, for a few weeks after ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Boarding to Prague" by Celia Martinez Bravo Commentary: "2000| Boarding to Prague. ." | "Swiss air lines, boarding" by Christoph Burgdorfer Commentary: "Boarding a swiss air lines aircraft in zürich kloten." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | There are no formal boarding houses, but for a large group of tourists, especially during vacations, school boards are venues used as boarding houses. (references) | |
Children | Tuvalu | In March 2000, a fire destroyed a girls' boarding school, with 19 fatalities. (references) |
Turkey | The Government has built regional boarding schools to help deal with this problem, but they remained insufficient in number. (references) | |
Mozambique | Outside the main cities where there are fewer secondary schools, and where boarding is required for attendance, the number of female students drops significantly. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | Local officials tricked one group of newly arrived refugee families into boarding a convoy of trucks that transported them to Afghanistan involuntarily by telling them that the trucks were going to take them to the New Shamshatoo refugee camp. (references) |
Economic History | Turkey | With 18 boarding bridges and another 12 gates, the terminal can handle 30 simultaneous gate arrivals and departures. (references) |
Bangladesh | The CAAB is expanding its airports in Dhaka and Chittagong and anticipates procuring radar, navigational aids, HF and VHF radios, runway lighting, ground support and emergency vehicles, and additional boarding bridges. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bulgaria | Decisions in these cases are not subject to judicial review, and children typically stay in the Educational Boarding Schools for 3 years or until they reach majority age, whichever occurs first. (references) |
Indonesia | One of these victims, Tengku Al-Kamal, a Muslim boarding school director in South Aceh, was a member of the team monitoring the "peace through dialog" agreement between the Government and the GAM. (references) | |
Minorities | Philippines | Muslims report that they have difficulty renting rooms in boarding houses or being hired for retail work if they use their real name or wear distinctive Muslim dress. (references) |
Travel | Czech Rep | Be careful in and around train stations and when boarding and exiting trams. (references) |
Bulgaria | Passengers are on the "honor system" and expected to validate their own tickets after boarding. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Registration is taken care of by the proprietor for those staying at a hotel, a private boarding house or an apartment rented through an accomodation company. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Senegal | On August 28, authorities stopped 100 young Senegalese women from boarding a charter flight to Libya. (references) |
Australia | In September Parliament also enacted the Border Protection Act, which authorizes the boarding and searching of vessels in international waters, if suspected of smuggling of persons. (references) | |
Poland | In cases of underage victims, La Strada tries to facilitate the victim's return to school and tries to arrange for boarding school for victims who are afraid or unable to return to their families. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Earl Charles Spencer | Well, from what I see, they're in a very good place at the moment in that they're at a school which is very supportive of them. It happens to be a boarding school. And they both seem extremely solid and together. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Boarding" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.02% of the time. "Boarding" is used about 367 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) | 76.02% | 279 | 17,495 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 23.16% | 85 | 35,870 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 367 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "boarding": boarding bridge ♦ boarding card ♦ boarding house ♦ boarding ladder ♦ Boarding nettings ♦ boarding out ♦ boarding pass ♦ Boarding pike ♦ boarding school ♦ boarding walk ♦ boards or boarding ♦ denied boarding ♦ girl's boarding school ♦ Louver boarding ♦ match boarding ♦ overlapped boarding ♦ roof boarding ♦ secondary spaced boarding ♦ sound boarding ♦ weather boarding. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "boarding": boarding-card, boarding-house, boarding-houses, boarding-out, boarding-pikes, boarding-school, boarding-schools, boarding-up. | |
Ending with "boarding": barge-boarding. | |
| 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 "boarding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | biletë avioni (boarding card), shkollë me konvikt (boarding school), pension (boarding house, pension). (various references) | |
Arabic | الثواء, ألواح خشبية (planking), شىء مصنوع من خشب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | храна (aliment, board, chow, chuck, diet, dietary, eating, edibles, fare, feed, fodder, food, fuel, meal, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, rations, scran, sustenance, tack, viands, victuals), обковаване с дъски, акостиране (moorage, mooring), абордаж, подвързия от картон (board), пансион (academy, boarding house, boarding school, house). (various references) | |
Catalan | pensió (boarding house, boarding school). (various references) | |
Chinese | 上 (Boarded). (various references) | |
Czech | penzión (boarding house, guesthouse), internátní škola (boarding school), hotýlek (boarding house). (various references) | |
Danish | bræddebeklædning (lagging, sheathing, split bar), beklaedning (coating, covering, liner, lining, sheathing of an electrode), strømpe-fixering, opbringning, kollision (collision), indstigning, forskalling (casing, centering, centres, centring, lagging, sheathing, split bar), formning af strømper. (various references) | |
Dutch | beschot (dash-board, panel, wainscot, wall), beplanking (planking, poling boards, sheathing), vormfixeren, plankbekleding, instappen (get in, get into a car), dakbeschot (sheathing, shingle, wooden roofing tile), aanvaring (collision), aanhouding (apprehension, arrest, detention). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pensiono (boarding house, boarding school). (various references) | |
Farsi | پانسیون (Pension), مهمانخانه شبانه روزی , تخته کوبی (Shingle). (various references) | |
Finnish | laudoitus (wainscot). (various references) | |
French | abordage, planchéiage, embarquement. (various references) | |
German | Verschalung (casing, framework, Mold, paneling, sheeting), Verkleidung (casing, covering, disguise, disguising, dressing up, facing, fancy dress, lining, panel, paneling, revetment, sheeting). (various references) | |
Greek | σύγκρουση (buffer, clash, collision, conflict, crash, crush, impact, percussion, pile-up), σιδέρωμα, σανίδωμα (flooring, hoarding, lathing, planking, scaffold), σανίδεσ (planking), βάζω σε τάξη, φορμάρω (block), επιβίβαση (embarkation), Σανίδωση σανίδωμα, οικοτροφία (board). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלון (boarding house, hotel, lodging), פנימיה (boarding school, dormitory), פנסיון (boarding house, pension), בית ספר פנימוני (boarding school). (various references) | |
Hungarian | penzió (board, boarding house, family hotel, guesthouse, pension, private hotel), parthoz állás, padló (bridging, floor, flooring, sealing), kartonkötés, hajóraszállás, fodorítás, deszkaburkolat (deck, planking, siding), deszkázat (deck, decking, planking), élelmezés lakással, élelmezés (catering, feeding, keeping, nutrition, sustenance), átvizsgálás (check, going-over, revision). (various references) | |
Irish | bordála (of boarding). (various references) | |
Italian | tavolato (boards, chess, planking), imbarco (embarkation, embarking, embarkment, shipment, shipping), abbordaggio (collision). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 賄い (board, catering, cook, meals), 搭乗 (embarkation), 板張り (wooden floor), 板囲い (board fence), 下宿 (boarding house, lodging). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まかない (board, catering, cook, meals), いたがこい (board fence), いたばり (wooden floor), げしゅく (boarding house, lodging), とうじょう (cylindrical, embarkation, entry, going east, going to Tokyo). (various references) | |
Korean | 난입 (intruding). (various references) | |
Malay | asrama (boarding house, boarding school). (various references) | |
Manx | oastys (board, board food, hostel, Public house licence), maidjey (bail, bail in stable, bar, bar on doorway, bat, club, cue, lever, pitprop, pointer, pole, rod, stick, straddle, wooden), kiart-chlaare, goll er boayrd (board, embark, embarkation), foiee (piece of timber, timber, timbered, wood), clareyn. (various references) | |
Norwegian | pensjon (boarding house, boarding school). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oardingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | embarque (departure, embarkation, shipment, shipping). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | embarque. (various references) | |
Romanian | urcare la bord, pardosire cu scânduri, abordare (approach). (various references) | |
Russian | посадка (alighting, embarkation, landfall, landing, touch down, touchdown). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pansion (boarding house), internat (boarding school). (various references) | |
Spanish | entablado (planking), embarque (embarkation, melodrama, shipment, shipping). (various references) | |
Swedish | plank (board, hoarding, paling, plank, planking). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม้กระดานยาว. (various references) | |
Turkish | yiyecek içecek (board, provisions), tahta kaplama (paneling, panelling, wainscot, wainscotting), rampa (ascent, gantry, gantry scaffold, gauntry, launching pad, launching platform, pad, platform, raise, ramp), parmaklık (balustrade, banisters, bar, fence, fencing, grating, grid, grill, grille, guardrail, hurdle, paling, palisade, rack, rail, railing, trellis). (various references) | |
Turkmen | internat (r) (boarding school). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | взяття на абордаж, обшивка дошками (planking), дошки. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lót ván, sự ăn cơm trọ sự lên tàu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "boarding": boardinghouse, boardinghouses, boardings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "boarding": billboarding, breadboarding, clapboarding, keyboarding, reboarding, rekeyboarding, sailboarding, skateboarding, snowboarding, starboarding, storyboarding, surfboarding, weatherboarding. (additional references) | |
Words containing "boarding": sailboardings, skateboardings, snowboardings, weatherboardings. (additional references) | |
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"Boarding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baoding, bareding, Berardenga, Bjoerling, boading, boardings, boardon, boaring, boer-ing, Bonardi, Bordin, bording, Sbordini. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boarding" (pronounced bô"rding) |
| 5 | -ô" r d i ng | according, affording, awarding, cording, hoarding, recording, rewarding, warding. |
| 4 | -r d i ng | bombarding, discarding, disregarding, guarding, regarding, retarding, safeguarding, skateboarding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, abiding, adding, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, Redding, Reding, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retreading, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: aboding, adoring, barding, brigand, inboard. | |
-2 letters: bagnio, bandog, baring, barong, boding, boring, brogan, daring, dragon, gabion, ganoid, gradin, inroad, oaring, onagri, orbing, ordain, origan, riband, roband, robing. | |
-3 letters: adorn, argon, aroid, bairn, baron, bingo, board, bogan, boing, braid, brain, brand, bring, broad, danio, dinar, dingo, dobra, doing, donga, drain, garni, giron, goban, gonad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-g-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: adsorbing, boardings, brocading, signboard. | |
+2 letters: bombarding, broadening, reboarding, signboards. | |
+3 letters: becowarding, broadsiding, fingerboard, keyboarding, springboard. | |
+4 letters: backdropping, barricadoing, billboarding, biodegrading, boardsailing, broadcasting, carbonadoing, clapboarding, crossbanding, fingerboards, outbargained, roadblocking, sailboarding, snowboarding, springboards, starboarding, surfboarding. | |
+5 letters: backgrounding, bildungsroman, boardinghouse, boardsailings, breadboarding, crossbandings, decarbonating, decarbonizing, radiolabeling, rekeyboarding, sailboardings, skateboarding, snowboardings, storyboarding, subordinating. | |
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