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Gameboard

Definition: Gameboard

Gameboard

Noun

1. A flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games; "he got out the board and set up the pieces".

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

Synonym: Gameboard

Synonym: board (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Gameboard

English words defined with "gameboard": gaming table. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Gameboard

DomainTitle

Books

  • Social Studies Trivial Pursuit: Intermediate with Book and Cards and Gameboard (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gameboard

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gameboard

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gameboard

Language Translations for "gameboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ameboardgay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Gameboard

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

alvei, alveo, alveos, alveum, alveus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Gameboard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-g-m-o-r"

-2 letters: damager, embargo, gambade, gambado, megabar.

-3 letters: aboard, abrade, abroad, agorae, ambage, amoeba, badger, barged, bodega, borage, bregma, dagoba, damage, dogear, garbed, radome, roamed.

-4 letters: abeam, abode, aboma, adage, adobe, adore, agora, amber, ameba, ardeb, armed, aroma, baaed, badge, barde, bared, barge, beard, board, bored, bread, bream, broad, brome, damar, debar, demob, derma, dobra, dogma, drama, dream, embar, gamba, gambe, gamed, gamer, gored, grade, grama, madre, marge, morae, oared, omber, ombre, omega, orbed, oread, raged, regma, robed.

-5 letters: abed, aero, agar, aged, ager, agma, ambo, area, bade, bard, bare, barm, bead, beam, bear, bema, berg, berm, boar, bode, bora, bore, brad, brae, brag, bred, dago, dame, darb, dare, dear, demo, derm, doer, doge, dome, dore, dorm, drab, drag, dram, dreg, egad, ergo, gaed, gama, gamb, game, garb, gear, germ, goad, goer, gore, grab, grad, gram, maar, mabe, made, mage, mare, mead, mode, mora, more, odea, ogam, ogre, omer, orad, raga, rage, read, ream, redo, road, roam, robe, rode.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Gameboard


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 6D 65 62 6F 61 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    --    .    -...    ---    .-    .-.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01101101 01100101 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#109 &#101 &#98 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 006D 0065 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

416779716881678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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