Boards

Definition: Boards

Boards

Noun

1. The boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "boards" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Fine Arts

Literature

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

Arena

Noun: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards; (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus.

The Drama

Verb: act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate; mimic; (imitate); enact; play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; "strut and fret one's hour upon a stage"; tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it.

Stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies; floats, footlights; offstage; orchestra.

Adverb: on the stage, on the boards; on film; before the floats, before an audience; behind the scenes.

Crosswords: Boards

How do you know boards will do anything (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

I swear, if Buffy rooms or boards one more of the potential girls, I'm gonna call a health inspector (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I see you helped your husband with his psych boards too. (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois)

Boards don't hit back (Enter the Dragon; writing credit: Michael Allin)

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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

References

• Seshasayee Paper and Boards Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Wood Pulp and Vegetable Fiber Building Boards in N. America & Caribbean (reference)

• Printed Circuit Boards in Singapore: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Wood Pulp and Vegetable Fiber Building Boards in Africa (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Wood Pulp and Vegetable Fiber Building Boards Export Supplies (reference)

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Books

• Corporate Boards that Create Value (reference)

• High Impact Philanthropy: How Donors, Boards and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management seri (reference)

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Periodicals

• Alabama School Boards (reference)

• Directors And Boards (reference)

• Strategic Governance For Nonprofit Executives And Boards (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Dominating the Boards & rebounding (reference)

• Hot Boards (reference)

• Over the Edge: Extreme Sports - Extreme Boards (reference)

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Music

• On the Boards (reference)

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High Tech

• OEM WINTV BULK PACK W/10 BOARDS (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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2 square black marble cutting boards (1 large, 1 small) on a grey marble table top. The small board has a peapod split open; the large board is decorated with swipes of light blue paint and has tomatoes, carrots, squash, beans and spinach. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A tower with a bad day Anchor boards pulled out. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

To bridge the larger crevasses, boards were brought to use as bridges. McMurdo Station to South Pole traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Otter boards used to spread wide the net when in the water. Credit: Fisheries.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Monks cells now isolation boards. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Preparations: bulges open, boards in floor removed, New York, N.Y.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Seaman 1st Class Leonard A. Cassidy spots model aircraft on the ship's "ouija board" hangar and flight deck planning boards, in response to the telephoned orders of air officers. The nearer board represents the flight deck, with the hangar deck board behind it. Aircraft types represented include F6F, TBM and SB2C. The original color transparency was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 15 June 1945. Credit: NAVY.

King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, boards the ship for a visit, probably near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, circa 1947. He is preceded by some of his bodyguards and followed by Mohamed Effendi (interpreter), Waldo Bailey (U.S. Consul at Dhahran), Colonel William McNown (Military Attache to the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt), Captain John C. Woelfel (U.S. Naval Technical Officer at the Cairo Embassy), and Captain Dewitt C.E. Hamberger (Naval Attache to the Cairo Embassy). Some of Cimarron's officers are saluting in the foreground. Credit: NAVY.

Dome of boards and plank / W. Kneass, sc. Credit: Library of Congress.

Japanese enlistment. Official announcement recently of formation of a combat regiment to be made up of 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry was the signal for hundreds of loyal citizens in Hawaii to go to their draft boards and sign up. Here, a group of 1. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In order to ensure the due execution of this undertaking the Allied and Associated Governments will hand over such property to boards of trustees appointed by or approved by the Governments and composed of persons holding the faith of the Mission whose property is involved. (reference)

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The four boards of the coffin exhaled a kind of terrible peace

The men could see the current of the stream, slipping swiftly down, bearing black branches of trees, boxes, boards.

That he discovered two staples upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for light

I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, an Irishman who worked on the Fitchburg Railroad, for boards.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Wash hands, knives, and cutting boards after handling uncooked foods. (references)

Use separate cutting boards for foods of animal origin and other foods. (references)

The site provides links to the licensing boards in the participating states. (references)

Business

There currently are no non-tariff barriers against wood flooring boards in Korea. (references)

These warehouses store jet-skis, water bikes, windsurf boards, sails and accessories. (references)

The County Administrative Boards represent the environmental interests of central government in each respective region. (references)

Children

Ireland

The Minister of State (junior minister) for Health has special responsibility for children's policy, including monitoring the implementation of the Child Care Act by the eight regional health boards. (references)

Ireland

The Child Care Act places a statutory duty on government health boards to identify and help children who are not receiving adequate care, and it gives the police increased powers to remove children from the family when there is an immediate and serious risk to their health or welfare. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

Content on some bulletin boards has been removed. (references)

Economic History

Tanzania

The procurement under this arrangement is by central tender boards. (references)

Mauritius

Media include television, radio, newspapers, magazines and bill boards. (references)

New Zealand

The territorial authorities may delegate powers to local community boards. (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

Other boards were still being formed at year's end and were not yet active. (references)

South Africa

The parole boards still are staffed by lower ranking DCS employees; NGO's have attributed the low number of parole decisions and an exacerbation of the overcrowding conditions in prisons to this. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Boards of Investigation and Public Prosecution, organized on a regional basis, were established by King Fahd in 1993. The members of these boards have the right to inspect prisons, review prisoners' files, and hear their complaints. (references)

Indigenous People

Colombia

These boards administer their territories as municipal entities, with officials elected or otherwise chosen according to tradition. (references)

Colombia

Traditional Indian authority boards operate some 545 reserves; the boards handle national or local funds and are subject to fiscal oversight by the national Comptroller General. (references)

Minorities

Bangladesh

Selection boards in the government services often lack minority group representation. (references)

Political Economy

AUSTRALIA

Commodity Boards: The export of almost all wheat, rice, and sugar remains under the exclusive control of commodity boards. (references)

HONDURAS

In July 2000, the IMF and the World Bank Boards approved Honduras' decision point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. (references)

INDONESIA

With the implementation of political and fiscal decentralization, provincial investment boards now play a much great role in approving foreign investments in their regions. (references)

Political Rights

Malta

Of senior government officials, 8 to 10 percent are female, and an additional 11 women were serving as chairpersons on appointed government boards at year's end. (references)

Trade

Japan

Specific JAS marks exist for various types of plywood, paneling, flooring boards, lumber, and timber. (references)

Netherlands

Customs authorities accept certificates of origin issued by authorized local U.S. chambers of commerce or boards of trade. (references)

Women

Guatemala

It formed a coordinating committee and other advisory boards and representative assemblies from each of 24 linguistic groups. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Legislation in 1993, reinforced by a 1994 ruling of the High Court of Justice, led to an increase in the percentage of women on the boards of government-owned companies. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

Tripartite regional wage boards set minimum wages. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Made of boards

Expressions using "boards": be on the boards ♦ boards or boarding ♦ bottom boards ♦ bound in boards ♦ Ceiling boards ♦ cover with boards ♦ deckle boards ♦ go by the boards ♦ head boards ♦ in boards ♦ Limber boards ♦ Louver boards ♦ pit boards ♦ roof boards ♦ shifting boards ♦ Specialty Boards ♦ the boards ♦ To enter on the boards ♦ To lap boards ♦ To make short boards ♦ Trail boards ♦ tread the boards. Additional references.

Ending with "boards": floor-boards, notice-boards, story-boards.

Arabic 

‏أصبح ممثلا (tread the boards). (various references)

Bulgarian 

театър (house, scene, shop, stage, theater, theatre), театрална сцена, актьорска професия (stage). (various references)

Chinese 

�"员会 (board, Commission, Committee, Council). (various references)

Danish

bundbrædder (bottom boards), beklaedning af bjaelker (poling boards, sheathing), spunsvaeg (pit boards, well curbing), sidelineal (deckle boards), pladebeklædning (matting boards), lastebrædder (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), løst skot (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), kartonnere (bind, binding, case in paper boards, casing in paper boards), kartonnage (binding, box-making, casing in paper boards), haengslede staalvognkaeppe,som kan udskiftes,stoetter og holdere til hoestvognens sideklapper (removable hinged steel stakes, support posts and sockets for the side boards of trailers for roughage), de to bundstave op ad den midterste (head boards, head staves), anordning til fastholdelse af trawlskovlene (device to immobilize the otter boards). (various references)

Dutch

buikdenning (bottom boards, ceiling), binden in kartonnen band (binding, casing in paper boards), Bestuur van provincies,gemeenten en waterschappen (Administration of Provinces, Municipalities and Water Boards), beplanking (boarding, planking, poling boards, sheathing), voorziening voor het blokkeren van de visborden (device to immobilize the otter boards), verplaatsbaar schot (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), scharnierende afneembare stalen rongen,zijwandstijlen en beugels voor de zijschotten van oogstwagens (removable hinged steel stakes, support posts and sockets for the side boards of trailers for roughage), keeschot (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), Islamitische Scholen Besturen Organisatie (Muslim School Boards Organisation), inbinden in karton (bind, case in paper boards), houten vloerdelen (bottom boards), houten vloer (matting boards), formaatstrippen (deckle boards), duigen naast de centrale duig (head boards, head staves). (various references)

Finnish

kovat kannet. (various references)

French

planches (boarding), panneaux. (various references)

German

bretter (floor, planks, shelves, stage). (various references)

Greek 

μετακινούμενοι χαλύβδινοι πάσσαλοι με την βάση τους,και στηρίγματα πλευρικών ενισχύσεων,για τις πλευρές των οχημάτων συγκομιδής (support posts and sockets for the side boards of trailers for roughage), επηγκενίδες εσωτερικού πυθμένα (bottom boards), επένδυση με σανίδες (matting boards), ενδοστύλωσις φρέατος (pit boards, well curbing), παράφραγμα (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), δουλεύω ως ηθοποιός (tread the boards), περιτοίχιση με μαδέρια (poling boards, sheathing), κινητό διάφραγμα (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), ξύλινο χώρισμα (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), βγαίνω στην σκηνή (tread the boards), σανίδωμα (boarding, flooring, hoarding, lathing, planking, scaffold), κεφαλοσάνιδα (head boards, head staves), κεφαλόδουγες (head boards, head staves), κινητή φρακτή (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), πλευρικό τοίχωμα τελάρου (deckle boards). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"יות שחקן (tread the boards). (various references)

Hungarian

világot jelentő deszkák, színpad (proscenia, proscenium, scene, stage), borítólap (book cover, book jacket, dust jacket, jacket, wrapper). (various references)

Indonesian

memapan (install boards). (various references)

Italian

tavolato (boarding, chess, planking), palcoscenico (board, stage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

裏板 (ceiling, roof boards), 揚�'板 (movable floor boards, trap door), 溝板 (boards covering a ditch), 板� (method of making patterns via pressing cloth between carved boards), 板目 (seam of joined boards, woodgrain), 天井板 (ceiling boards), 上�'�"� (removable floor boards, trap door), 上�'板 (movable floor boards, trap door), 制札 (roadside prohibition-edict boards). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うらいた (ceiling, roof boards), どぶいた (boards covering a ditch), せいさつ (consideration, reflection, roadside prohibition-edict boards), いため (seam of joined boards, woodgrain), いたじめ (method of making patterns via pressing cloth between carved boards), あ�'ぶた (removable floor boards, trap door), あ�'いた (movable floor boards, trap door), て�"じょういた (ceiling boards). (various references)

Korean 

널 (board). (various references)

Manx

claareyn-shooyl (duck boards). (various references)

Pig Latin

oardsbay.(various references)

Portuguese

segundos (head boards, head staves), réguas de quadro de formação (deckle boards), réguas de formato (deckle boards), réguas de formação (deckle boards), paneiro (bottom boards), escoras móveis em aço montadas com recurso a charneiras e suportes de taipal nas paredes laterais dos veículos de colheita (removable hinged steel stakes, support posts and sockets for the side boards of trailers for roughage), dispositivo para bloquear os moitões das portas de arrasto (device to immobilize the otter boards), chegantes (head boards, head staves), cartonar (bind, case in paper boards), cartonagem (binding, box-making, casing in paper boards, chip core board, chipboard), antepara volante (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), antepara móvel (portable bulkhead, shifting boards). (various references)

Romanian

scenã (arena, board, footlights, locale, row, scene, spectacle, stage, the boards). (various references)

Russian 

плата (board, card, chargecard, fee, pay, payment, premium, toll). (various references)

Scottish

eislinn (boards on which the corpse is laid, the board on which a corpse is laid). (various references)

Spanish

laminadores (deckle boards), cuadro de entibación de pozo (pit boards, well curbing), en cartoné (in boards), encartonado (boarding), encartonar (board), encofrado (boarded, casing, poling boards, sheathing), azuelas (head boards, head staves), entablar (begin, board, board in, board up, bring, cover with boards, draw, enter into, establish, file, floor, initiate, institute, plank, prosecute, set up, splint, start, strike up), ser actor (tread the boards), mamparo portátil (portable bulkhead, shifting boards), mecanismo de bloqueo de la puerta de la red de arrastre (device to immobilize the otter boards), pavimento de tablones (matting boards), planchas retenedoras (deckle boards), reglas (inscription, red tape, rules), regletas (deckle boards, furniture), enjaretado (bottom boards). (various references)

Swedish

sarg (border, coaming, frame). (various references)

Turkish

sahne (arena, scene, scenic, set, setting, site, stage). (various references)

Ukrainian

бути актором (be on the stage, tread the boards). (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "boards": boardsailing, boardsailings, boardsailor, boardsailors. (additional references)

Words ending with "boards": backboards, bargeboards, baseboards, beaverboards, billboards, blackboards, boxboards, breadboards, buckboards, cardboards, centerboards, chalkboards, checkerboards, chessboards, chipboards, clapboards, clipboards, containerboards, corkboards, cupboards, dartboards, dashboards, duckboards, fiberboards, fibreboards, fingerboards, flashboards, floorboards, flutterboards, footboards, freeboards, garboards, hardboards, headboards, inboards, keyboards, kickboards, lapboards, larboards, leaderboards, leeboards, linerboards, matchboards, moldboards, mopboards, mortarboards, motherboards, outboards, packboards, paddleboards, paperboards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Boards" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bacardis, bardes, batardes, Boada, boardy, bocardo, Bogaerde, Boiardo, Bonardi, bor, borda, Bordas, Bordj, bordl, bords, Bourdj, Burada, Byards, dorads. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: adsorb, broads, dobras.

-1 letter: bards, board, boars, boras, brads, broad, darbs, dobra, dorsa, drabs, roads, sarod.

-2 letters: abos, ados, arbs, bads, bard, bars, boar, boas, bods, bora, brad, bras, bros, dabs, darb, dors, drab, oars, orad, orbs, osar, rads, road, robs, rods, sard, soar, soda, sora, sorb, sord.

-3 letters: abo, abs, ado, ads, arb, ars, bad, bar.

+1 letter: adsorbs, boyards, byroads, robands.

+2 letters: absorbed, adsorbed, adsorber, ambroids, bandoras, bandores, baudrons, boarders, bodhrans, bollards, bombards, bradoons, bravados, broadens, broadest, broadish, brocades, cordobas, inboards, labroids, probands, reboards, rhabdoms, roadbeds, seaboard, sowbread.

+3 letters: abductors, absconder, adsorbate, adsorbent, adsorbers, adsorbing, amberoids, backdrops, backsword, banderols, baseboard, beadrolls, beadworks, bearwoods, becowards, blowhards, boardings, boatyards, boneyards, boxboards, braconids, bravadoes, broadaxes, broadcast, broadness, broadside, browbands, cupboards, dashboard, doorjambs, drawbores, forbidals, garboards, hardboots, keyboards, labradors, lapboards, larboards, leeboards, mopboards, oribatids, outboards, pegboards, rhabdomes, sailboard, seaboards, shipboard, showbread, sideboard, signboard, snowboard, sowbreads, starboard, surfboard, tagboards, teaboards, wardrobes, washboard.