board1 nounboard2 verb
boardboard1 /bɔːd $ bɔːrd/ ●●● S1 W1 noun 
WORD ORIGINboard1
Origin:
Old English bordEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a cutting board
- I'll put an announcement up on the board.
- If you don't agree with the result etc you can appeal to the board of examiners.
- In October, the school board recommended that uniforms become compulsory.
- Room and board is $3,000 per semester.
- The licensing board has refused us permission to sell alcohol on the premises.
- We got the cedar boards from an old fence.
- Where's the chess board?
- Your homework assignment is written on the board.
- An apparent ring, which had its own people inside, was responsible for earlier Sparc 2 board thieves.
- And a more frantic presence was trapped behind the skirting board.
- For six years, Lowman worked with the Los Angeles school board to get more teaching programs and transportation for handicapped children.
- It was a notice board devoted exclusively to funeral announcements, and the lawyer's death was well represented.
- Mr Balmuth joined Caldor in 1987 as president and was elected to the board in 1989.
- The board argued that the dispute was not protected by the First Amendment since it was an internal personnel matter.
- The floor boards are one quarter-inch thick and come in 34 designs.
- The track led only to Scudder's Cottage, the name crudely painted on a board nailed to the gate.
Longman Language Activatorto accept that something is right
to agree that a suggestion or idea is right, especially when you did not previously think so: · People are beginning to accept the idea that higher taxes may be necessary.accept that: · The judge accepted that Carter did not mean to harm anyone.
to accept that a plan or suggestion is good, especially when you have the power to decide whether it will be allowed to happen: · I spoke to my boss yesterday about postponing the meeting and she agreed.agree to: · We want to have a big party, but I don't think my parents will agree to it.agree that: · The music teacher agreed that Dave should play at the school concert.
to think that a plan, suggestion, or decision is very good, and eagerly accept it: · Some companies have welcomed the idea of employees working from home.· The university's cafeteria welcomes any suggestions for improvement of its menu or service.be warmly welcomed: · The proposal was warmly welcomed by the German Chancellor.
especially spoken use this to say that you are willing to accept and support a plan or suggestion that someone has made: · "What do you think of Jo's idea?" "I think we should go with it - I can't think of anything better."
British to realize that a new idea or suggestion is important and that it needs to be thought about seriously: take something on board: · The local government says it has taken much of the public's criticism on board and it promises to make changes.take on board something: · The management says that it will take on board suggestions from employees about child-care facilities.
formal to eagerly accept ideas, opinions etc: · By the end of the last century, Americans had embraced the idea of the right to free public education for all children.embrace something wholeheartedly/wholeheartedly embrace something (=embrace it completely): · The President said he wholeheartedly embraced the need for further talks on the refugee crisis.
for everyone or affecting everyone · Don't worry. There's plenty of food for everyone.· Inflation is falling, and that's good news for everyone.be better for everyone · Sometimes I think it would be better for everybody if I wasn't here.
British all around American if people get something all round or all around , someone gives something to everyone: · Bernie ordered drinks all round.· After presents all around, we all tucked into our Christmas dinner.
if something, especially a change, happens across the board , it affects or involves everyone, especially in a company or organization: · They decided on a pay increase of 10% across the board.· Jobs will be lost across the board, in manufacturing, marketing, and administration.right/all across the board: · The changes will cause problems right across the board.
an expression meaning for everyone - use this especially when talking about something that everyone deserves to have, such as a job, or freedom: · In an ideal society there would be jobs for all.· In his acceptance speech the President promised civil rights for all.
to get on a bus, plane etc to go onto a bus, train etc at the beginning of a journey: · The train stopped in the middle of the night in Nogales. No one got on or off.· We got on the train at Lime Street Station.· Get on a number 73 bus at the corner. That will take you to Islington High Street.· She's old and needs help getting on and off the bus.
to go into a small vehicle, for example a car or boat: · "Can you give me a lift into town?" "Sure. Get in."· Be careful getting into the boat.· I got in a taxi and went to the hospital immediately.
to get on a particular bus, train, or plane in order to go somewhere: · Stephen caught the 6.15 to Birmingham.· If we're quick, we should still be able to catch our train.· Jonathan looked at his watch. "I've got a plane to catch," he said.
informal to get on a bus, train, plane etc, or get into a car, taxi etc, especially after suddenly deciding to: · Karl hopped on the first plane back to Germany.· "Hop in," shouted Lucy, throwing open the door of her van.· She hopped into a cab and told the driver to go to King's Cross.· "Why not hop in the car and come with us?" Myrtle asked with a sly smile.
formal to get on a ship, plane, or train: · A week later he boarded a ship bound for New York.· Before boarding the plane, Jenny tried once more to call home.
formal to get on a ship - use this especially when a large number of people do this: · A large group had assembled at the pier, waiting to embark.embark for: · Their training completed, the regiment embarked for the war zone.
to climb onto a horse: · Can you help Shelly mount?· He mounted the pony and rode off.
if you get on board or aboard a ship or plane, you get onto it: · It was time to get on board the ship.· A group of men, some in military uniform, climbed aboard the plane.· The ship's crew saluted the President as he came aboard.
a group of people who work together a group of people who work together to do a job: · There will be a meeting for all members of the team next Wednesday.· Dr Gaultier and his medical team worked in the refugee camps for over a year.team of: · The coins were discovered by a team of archaeologists.· The Prime Minister works closely with a team of unelected advisers.
the people who work together on a ship or plane: · The captain and crew would like to welcome you on board Flight 381 to Geneva.· Everyone aboard the Montreal Queen, including the crew, died.
a small group of people in an organization who have been chosen to make official decisions: · Bill Dean has been elected chairman of the committee.finance/health/housing etc committee: · The finance committee has decided to raise membership fees for next season.be on a committee (=be a member of a committee): · She's been on the Church committee for 20 years.
a group of people in an organization or company who make rules and decisions about how the organization works, give permission for particular plans to be carried out etc: · The licensing board has refused us permission to sell alcohol on the premises.· In October, the school board recommended that uniforms become compulsory.board of examiners/governors/directors etc: · If you don't agree with the result etc ,you can appeal to the board of examiners.
a group of people who have been chosen to give advice or their opinion or to make an official decision about something, usually because they know a lot about it: · I've been invited to join the panel on a radio arts programme.panel of: · All applicants are questioned by a panel of experienced interviewers.· He was on a panel of judges for a famous literary prize.
/working party British a group of people chosen to consider a particular problem in detail and to suggest how to deal with it: · A Police Force working party concluded that many people found the police intimidating.· A working party was set up to investigate and act on the report's findings.
an official group that has been formed to work together to do a particular job or be responsible for a particular problem: · Hospital officials plan to use the donations to set up a new cardiac unit.· One of the policemen from the drug unit will be visiting local schools.
a group of managers the people who are in charge of an organization, not the ordinary workers: · Talks between the workers and the management broke down today.senior management: · Senior management seem to be completely out of touch with their staff's needs.
the group of people who have been chosen to manage a company, and who meet regularly to make important decisions: · There are only two women on the company's board of directors.· Last year the board approved use of funds to improve staff training.be appointed to the board (of directors): · Carmichael was appointed to the board in July.board meeting: · An emergency board meeting was hastily arranged.
British /the head office American the group of top managers of a company who work in it's central office and control the rest of the company's offices from there: · Head office must approve any order for new equipment.· In the past, strategy was dictated by the head office.
an expression meaning the management of an organization, used especially when the organization is so large that you do not know who the management is: · The powers that be have decided that our lunch breaks should be reduced to 45 minutes.
WORD SETSadobe, nounasphalt, nounbatten, nounbeam, nounblueprint, nounboard, nounboom, nounbreeze-block, nounbrick, nounbricklayer, nounbrickwork, nounbucket, nounbuilder, nounbuilding contractor, nounbuilding site, nounbulldoze, verbbulldozer, nounbuttress, nouncaisson, nouncantilever, nouncastellated, adjectivecavity wall, nouncement, nouncement, verbconcrete, adjectiveconcrete, nounconcrete, verbconduit, nounconstruct, verbcrane, nouncrosspiece, noundaub, noundigger, noundowel, noundrain, noundrainage, noundraughtsman, noundry-stone wall, noundry wall, nounduckboards, noundustsheet, nounembankment, nounerect, verberection, nounfence, verbfencing, nounfiberboard, nounfibreboard, nounfloor plan, nounfoundation, noungantry, noungatepost, noungirder, noungreenfield site, nounhalf-timbered, adjectivehard hat, nounhod, nounhousing association, nounhousing project, nounjackhammer, nounjib, nounjoist, nounkeystone, nounlath, nounleading, nounmansard, nounmortar, nounpanelling, nounpanel pin, nounpave, verbpavement, nounpebbledash, nounpier, nounpile driver, nounplank, nounplanking, nounplaster, nounplaster, verbplasterboard, nounplasterer, nounplate glass, nounpoint, verbPortakabin, nounprime, verbprimer, nounproperty developer, nounputty, nounquantity surveyor, nounrebuild, verbreconstruct, verbreconstruction, nounrefurbish, verbreinforced concrete, nounrendering, nounrenovate, verbrevetment, nounroof, nounroof, verbroofing, nounrooftop, nounrubble, nounsand, verbsandstone, nounsaw, verbscaffold, nounscaffolding, nounshovel, nounsite, nounskip, nounslab, nounslate, nounspan, verbstarter home, nounsteam shovel, nounstilt, nounstucco, nounsurface, verbsuspension bridge, nounthatch, nounthatched, adjectivetile, nountile, verbtiling, nountimber, nountopcoat, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 3phrases
Williams has been chairman of the board for five years. the hospital’s board of governors The puppy, which may have rabies, is at a quarantine kennel. It’s £90 a week for board and lodging (=meals and a room). The next morning I was as stiff as a board (=very stiff).
· The board of directors met yesterday.
(=in a school)· She sits on the board of governors.
American English· The school board voted on the appointment.
· James Clark has been named chairman of the board.
board + NOUN· Two board members resigned earlier this year.
· An emergency board meeting will have to be held.
(=at a senior level in a company, involving people on the board)· The policy was approved at board level.
verbs· He's on the board of trustees.
· They agreed that an independent chairman should be appointed to the board.
· She had served on the board of governors of the BBC.
· He gave up his seat on the board after 40 years' service.
(=ask the board to consider something)· Their proposals were put to the board.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Williams has been chairman of the board for five years. (=with black and white squares on it)· There was a chess board set up on the table.
formal (=get on one)· When everyone was there, we boarded the coach for the journey home.
(=a board showing the times of planes or trains)· I scanned the departures board for details of my flight.
· Some schools have a display board with photographs of all the staff.
American English (=in order to become a nurse or doctor)· He failed his board exams in psychiatry.
(=get on a flight)· We arrived at the departure lounge to board the flight to Madrid.
· board games such as Monopoly and Scrabble
the hospital’s board of governors The puppy, which may have rabies, is at a quarantine kennel. It’s £90 a week for board and lodging (=meals and a room).· A staff meeting will be held at 3 p.m.
formal (=get on it)· The first three cars were reserved for passengers boarding in Queens.
· We will set up a pay review body for all staff.
(=a school where children also live and sleep)
American English (=the group of people who are elected to govern a school or group of schools)· The courts have upheld the school board's right to dismiss striking teachers.
The next morning I was as stiff as a board (=very stiff).· At Stoke, another passenger boarded the train.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The Club controlled a section of Tribune, Gollancz eventually replacing Mellor on its editorial board.· The Journal of Medical Screening aims to be international and multidisciplinary, and the editorial board reflects these aims.· Now according to Jung, the Animus operates as a not-nice, all-male editorial board somewhere inside your fluffy head!· She was on the editorial board of the radical magazine Black Dwarf.· If an elected official did anything remotely similar, the editorial boards of both daily newspapers would howl for their heads.· Clearly a serious publication, it enjoys the support of a number of leading academics on its editorial board.
· Supplements per person per night: No single room supp; Full board £6.25.· The full board will take up the matter Monday, and passage is expected.· Front sea view and balcony £3.25; Full board £3.50.· At present, the full board meets every other month.· First, however, the full board must give the go-ahead.
· The purpose of the subsection is to ensure that there is local representation on the licensing board for a division.· Where an applicant is convicted, the licensing board may refuse to consider the application with which the conviction was concerned.· Voting at meetings of licensing boards.· For the meetings of licensing boards, see 55.4 and 5.· The issue of whether a church represents a significant body of opinion is a matter for the decision of the licensing board.· The most disappointing aspect of this matter is that he should have seen fit to introduce politics into licensing board affairs.· The licensing board require to give reasonably full reasons for their decision.· This Part of the Act imposes certain duties upon licensing boards in respect of seamen's canteens.
· In further education, it devolves power from local authorities to local self-governing boards.· Ohio uses local boards to manage its outpatient mental health and mental retardation services.· A few just leave it up to the local school board.· One of the three local boards was in an impoverished, mainly black section of Brooklyn called Ocean Hill-Brownsville.· The Contract also aims to dismantle the Department of Education and transfer its funds to families and local school boards.· State law, however, gives control of instruction to local school boards.· In any given year there may be 120,000 or 130,000 elections held, most of them for local school boards.· State laws, local board policies, and collective bargaining agreements set forth the specific reasons why teachers can be dismissed.
· After repeated pleas he secured a medical board to consider his case.· Soldo and his co-developer, librarian Richard Schiff, visited many state medical boards to introduce the concept.· A Maryland medical board ordered him to perform 100 hours of service in an Aids clinic.· The activity of state medical boards is directly related to their independence and financial backing, Winn said.· Three times during that year, Cottle was called before medical boards to assess his fitness for active service.· An elected health commissioner would run the system with an appointed medical advisory board and regional directors.· He promised to take duplicitous physicians before a medical ethics board and strip them of their credentials.
NOUN· At least, that's the case when downloading from a bulletin board.· To call a local computer bulletin board, you would use: A.. The Terminal program in Windows.· The case will be quickly followed by a second action taken against a large electronic bulletin board company.· The parents had been alerted to the amendment through postings on their electronic bulletin boards.· If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it.· The ideal bulletin board is a local call away, with a crowd you like and lots of cool shareware for downloading.· The use of bulletin boards and list servers will be evaluated in the section focusing on the scientific arena. 5.2.3.· No longer was it enough to write a program that connected reliably with local computer bulletin boards or even national on-line services.
· The five man selection team is completed by county board chairman Jack Wall and secretary Seamus Aldrdige.· After ordering investigations of many others, Texas state prison board chairman Allan Polunsky has a new target: himself.· While Eckstrom and Bronson both supported Grijalva for board chairman, there was considerable debate over that position among the three Demos.· Last week, board chairman Allan Polunsky ordered an audit of all the contracts.
· The disadvantages are that the batteries are inconvenient to change and severe battery leakage can be disastrous to the circuit board.· The brain is not a printed circuit board.· Complete circuit diagram for the Quick Prom interface Fig. 4. printed circuit board component layout and full size copper foil master pattern.· They regarded its motherboard, the main circuit board, as a beautiful work of art.· The purpose of the circuit board fault diagnostic aid is to assist the diagnosis performed using automatic test equipment.· You do this by plugging in special circuit boards.· Generally, however, printed circuit boards will be protected, through their preparatory drawings, by copyright.· Morrison said Apple had recently discovered flawed chips on the computers' main circuit boards could make them freeze up.
· The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board.· But evolution never starts from a clean drawing board.· You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.· These are then traced on a touch-sensitive drawing board to make digital data signals which are dumped in the computer memory.· The new ship, which has been on the drawing boards since the late 1970s, will be a research vessel.· They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.· They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.· There are also different kinds of drawing boards which will hold the paper firmly down and provide moving X and Y axes.
· Their ingenious green creations included a submarine, car, baby's rattle, hand puppets and board games.· Lots of computer-generated technical dazzle in this fantasy about jungle animals escaping a supernatural board game and terrorizing a New Hampshire town.· Certainly one to add to the collection of board games available on shareware such as monopoly and chess.· He saw her playing with the video games, checking out the board games, giving the stuffed animals trial hugs.· Certainly on warm windless days board games, comics and recorder corners can be encouraged in playgrounds.· Cyril said, throwing the board games, one by one, downward.· In the 1880s halma was rejuvenated as a board game Waddington's-style for two to four players.· My nephew and godson Peter loves board games and sports, so these are more prevalent in his home than in mine.
· As part of its general consultation process, Greater Glasgow health board consulted in respect of its acute services strategy for Glasgow.· How much money has his Department spent in conjunction with the health board on those applications?· From the general practice side this matter is being urgently discussed with both the health board and management executive.· To some extent there is a mismatch between teachers and health board staff in the perceived role of the health board.· Today's announcement could mean some of those health boards won't be running any of the hospitals in their area.· It was the only health board with a well organised congenital malformation register.· These include returning: Via a back to nursing or re-entry programme organised by your local health board or district health authority.
· This will cause both feet to rest on the windward rail, making it difficult to keep the board level.· Representation at board level of the workers is declared, in effect, to be a natural right.· As you start, therefore, concentrate on keeping the board level and getting it to move as quickly as possible.· Place your front foot in the training strap, using the back foot to keep the board level. 3.· The decision was discussed and agreed at board level, including the amount of space taken.· Not keeping the board level with the back foot. 6.
· An emergency board meeting is called for November 28.· The idea first came up in Thoroughbred Owners of California board meetings in June.· After the board meeting, they drove fifty miles south of Auckland to meet Forster for lunch.· In board meetings all across the nation, many are discussed, but few are ever chosen for implementation.· What would be the point of my disagreeing with my husband at a board meeting?· They attend monthly board meetings and pepper them with pointed questions and barbs.· It was to have been discussed at the next Shanks & McEwan board meeting in early October.· Doyle voiced his criticisms at a board meeting in Stoke 10 days ago.
· Public Employees Retirement System board members receive $ 100 a day when in session plus business expenses.· Outside board members also would be required to own at least 1, 000 Nynex shares during their board tenure.· They have been most successful when they have been able to win the trust and acceptance of the other management board members.· Four current board members, Markkula included, were up for re-election.· He was subsequently appointed director, Reprocessing Engineering Division, and became technical director and also a main board member in 1984.· Turner, also a Time Warner board member, suggested more such deals may be in the works.· Councillors rejected completely the proposal for a management board with its implied differentiation of councillors into board members and the rest.
· They are not merely abstract theory or pious statements of intent that look good posted on the staff notice board.· It's amazing how many schools that front busy roads have name boards but no notice boards.· A I think that the design considerations of your notice board should be given some careful thought.· It was a notice board devoted exclusively to funeral announcements, and the lawyer's death was well represented.· Memos of this type are often displayed on notice boards for general information.· A notice board placed in a suitable part of the ward is useful for presenting learning material.· Students are responsible for keeping themselves acquainted with notices posted on official notice boards. 4.
· The study was approved by the institutional review board of the Mayo Clinic and all patients gave written consent.· Among the 18 members on the review board will be the Rev.· Late last year the Northern Ireland sentence review board recommended that Adair be freed from Maghaberry.· Plant officials were awaiting approval of the plans by a review board of senior managers.· The price review board was set up as a result of the new patent legislation.· The report of the review board concludes unequivocally that the accident was caused by a high-altitude aerial explosion of an asteroidal body.· So Mr Burgreen, doing all that he could, said he would add a civilian to his internal review board.· The three-person review board met anyway.
· He did not look like a businessman about to discuss optical lenses in the board room at the Zeiss works.· I remember walking into the board room tingling with fear and energy.· Approval was given only after De Virgilio was called into the board room and given the chance to clarify Capetti's doubts.· George and Donald decided against looking into the board room and made their way together and silently from the ground.· On the top floor Franklin D. Hauser was addressing executives inside the large board room.
· In Mobile, Alabama, when the school board proposed a teacher competency test, the union objected.· He serves on the school board, as well as doctoring the people of Atteridgeville.· The school board and Superintendent Iris Metts requested a $ 1.1 billion budget.· Even among all of the confusion over Ebonics, the Oakland school board has performed a service.· Before tenured teachers can be dismissed, school boards must show cause why they are not fit to teach.· The teachers then appeared before the school board, asking that they be treated as a group in any disciplinary proceedings.· Can a new school board refuse to reappoint a teacher because of his or her association with former board members?
VERB· Anyway, shortly after my joining the board of United Racecourses, it became necessary to find a manager.· In 1994, Alexander joined the board of directors of Martin Marietta Corp.· He joined the board of the Hearst Corporation in June 1995.· She also joins the Helicon board.· But since last January when Tom Davies joined the two conservative board members, the board is generating increasing public discussion.· He then persuaded the late Robert Maxwell to join the board.
· Since the autumn of 1990 she had served on the board where she co-ordinated the work of Treuhand's 15 regional offices.· Many of the delegates work for him or have been appointed to serve on prestigious boards.· He serves on the school board, as well as doctoring the people of Atteridgeville.· He served on the school board for ten years and donated firewood.· Rusty's success is due to the fact that he serves the board.· We are grateful to him and to all the other people who serve on the advisory board of the know-how fund.· Deglazing is simple: Remove the roast from the oven, and transfer the meat to a serving platter or cutting board.
· He became a nationally prominent horse breeder, fostered charities, sat on corporate boards, served in the Connecticut legislature.· Three family members sit on the board as non-executive directors.· I sit on the boards of twenty organizations, and most are customers of this bank.· Although D'Arcy sat on the board of the new company he was not disposed to play any further significant role.· Supervisor Michael Yaki sits on the retirement board.· Ellison also sits on the board of Next.
· Now comes a fine Teldec Digital Experience disc which sonically sweeps the board.· Last season, they swept the board with all four leading places.· If the reformists emerge as the largest group, they will sweep the board.· Still, when the outcome was finally confirmed, reformers had swept the board.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► boards► BoardPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1- And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse, the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board.
- Health, education, transport and other welfare spending goes by the board.
- Meanwhile, there are other niceties that have simply gone by the board in certain aspects of management life.
- Moral standards go by the board in an atmosphere that seems generated purely for the above purposes.
- Scientific batsmanship goes by the board.
- Their principles have gone by the board.
- We had 100 people in the retail home delivery, but that was going by the boards by then.
- We used to play golf, but went by the board when he moved.
- Jobs will be lost across the board, in manufacturing, marketing, and administration.
- The changes will cause problems right across the board.
- They're cutting 10% of their staff across the board.
- They decided on a pay increase of 10% across the board.
- In the end, the only system that works well, across the board, is the one that involves perfect imitation.
- State education spending began to drop under the Dukakis administration in 1988, when huge budget deficits caused cutbacks across the board.
- Sunlight came into the room, slanting across the boards in languid diamonds.
- Tariffs will be lowered across the board, but some industries will be protected for another 15 years.
- The changes, if reported correctly, will cause problems right across the board.
- The cumulative results impressively followed suit, and that improvement could be found across the board.
- The departures screen Grand Central Station was no help, reading cancelled across the board because schedules were too tentative to post.
- The two main aims were achieved across the board.
- Our manager seemed to take our comments on board.
- And growers are only going to take precision farming on board if it can reduce the unit cost of production.
- At Hollybush we took information on board in a democratic, communal fashion, grouped with notebooks and pencils around visual aids.
- It is available from your Book, but so often the planet does not take it on board.
- The Chancellor has taken this on board, despite his predominantly male core of advisers.
- Then taking her on board they went where she directed and reached the sacred grove where the Fleece hung.
- Above him rivulets of mud slid through the boards of the roof.
- All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards.
- However, as materials supplies improved in the mid-1950s, the Boards increased their expenditure on standardisation.
- Sometimes the boards at the front seem to extend huge leads over the rest of the fleet.
- Spray on woodworm fluid following the manufacturer's advice, and replace the boards and then spray the top surface.
- Though the Raiders gave up some height on the boards, they outrebounded Pace 38-30.
- I have reflected on the position of elected councillors being allowed to become chairmen of college boards.
- Soldo and his co-developer, librarian Richard Schiff, visited many state medical boards to introduce the concept.
- That will provide the college boards with new perspectives and new experience.
- The activity of state medical boards is directly related to their independence and financial backing, Winn said.
- Three times during that year, Cottle was called before medical boards to assess his fitness for active service.
- A light plane with four people on board crashed last night.
- Voters rejected the bridge expansion plan, so it's back to the drawing board for city engineers.
- For San Jose, it was back to the drawing board.
- So Superman, once the most recognized and revered hero in comic books, was sent back to the drawing board.
- Sometimes, you also have to go back to the drawing board.
- The Cta episode has therefore sent the whole idea of direct dating of petroglyphs back to the drawing board.
- They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.
- They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.
- You also could go back to the drawing board with that budget, trying to reduce costs.
- You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.
- Additional programs in international studies and telecommunications were on the drawing board.
- Parisians remain unconvinced that the project will be approved, especially since it is not the only idea on the drawing board.
- Plans also are on the drawing board to develop chips for the cable industry.
- The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board.
- Until that changes, the Tobin tax will remain on the drawing board.
- If the reformists emerge as the largest group, they will sweep the board.
- Last season, they swept the board with all four leading places.
- Now comes a fine Teldec Digital Experience disc which sonically sweeps the board.
- Still, when the outcome was finally confirmed, reformers had swept the board.
- And rather than treading the boards ... they were teetering two feet above them.
- I was 22 or 23 before I decided to tread the boards.
- If they start today they have something under three weeks before treading the boards.
- Morris had no idea she had trodden the boards.
- So it is with a good few of the faithful with whom I trod the boards in my schooldays.
information [countable] a flat wide piece of wood, plastic etc that you can use to show informationon a board The plan of the new building is displayed on a board at the back of the room. I’ve put a list of names up on the board. I’ll check the departure board for train times. → billboard, blackboard, noticeboard, scoreboard2for putting things on [countable] a flat piece of wood, plastic, card etc that you use for a particular purpose such as cutting things on, or for playing indoor games: Martha was chopping vegetables on a wooden board. a chess board → breadboard, cheeseboard, chopping board3group of people (also Board) [countable] a group of people in a company or other organization who make the rules and important decisionsboard of The Board of Directors met yesterday. There was disagreement among the agency's board of governors.sit on a board/have a seat on a board (=be a member of a board) He gave up his seat on the board after 40 years. a board meeting a board memberGRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?• Board is usually followed by a singular verb in this meaning: · The board meets once a month.• In British English, you can also use a plural verb: · The board meet once a month.Grammar guide ‒ NOUNS4in names Board used in the name of some organizations: the New York State Board of Elections the British Boxing Board of Control5in building [countable] a long thin flat piece of wood used for making floors, walls, fences etc: We’ll have to take the boards up to check the wiring. → floorboard6on board a)on a ship, plane, or spacecraft SYN aboard: There are 12 children on board the ship. b)involved with something or working for an organization: Supporters of the treaty say that it will be necessary to have the United States on board. He came on board in the late sixties and spent two decades with the agency.7meals [uncountable] the meals that are provided for you when you pay to stay somewhere: In the nursing home she will have to pay for room and board. The landlord provides board and lodging (=meals and a place to stay). → full board, half board8go by the board if an idea, way of behaving, or plan goes by the board, it fails to happen, ends, or is no longer possible: Loyalty has gone by the board.9in water sports [countable] a surfboard or sailboard10across the board if something happens or is done across the board, it affects everyone in a particular group, place etc: The changes will affect local authorities across the board. We find jobs for people right across the board, from chief executives to cleaners.11take something on board to listen to and accept a suggestion, idea etc: The school refused to take any of the parents’ criticisms on board.12electricity [countable] a circuit board13theatre the boards [plural] the stage in a theatre → tread the boards at tread1(7)14sports area boards [plural] American English the low wooden wall around the area in which you play ice hockey15college/medical boards American English examinations that you take in the US when you formally ask to be accepted as a student at a college or medical school → above board, diving board, drawing board, ironing board, sounding board, → sweep the board at sweep1(11)COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 3phrasesa board of directors/trustees· The board of directors met yesterday.a board of governors (=in a school)· She sits on the board of governors.the school board American English· The school board voted on the appointment.the chairman of the board· James Clark has been named chairman of the board.board + NOUNa board member· Two board members resigned earlier this year.a board meeting· An emergency board meeting will have to be held.at board level (=at a senior level in a company, involving people on the board)· The policy was approved at board level.verbsbe on the board· He's on the board of trustees.be appointed to the board· They agreed that an independent chairman should be appointed to the board.sit/serve on the board· She had served on the board of governors of the BBC.have a seat on the board· He gave up his seat on the board after 40 years' service.put something to the board (=ask the board to consider something)· Their proposals were put to the board.board1 nounboard2 verb
boardboard2 ●●○ verb VERB TABLE
board
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | board |
| he, she, it | boards | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | boarded |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have boarded |
| he, she, it | has boarded | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had boarded |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will board |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have boarded |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am boarding |
| he, she, it | is boarding | |
| you, we, they | are boarding | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was boarding |
| you, we, they | were boarding | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been boarding |
| he, she, it | has been boarding | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been boarding |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be boarding |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been boarding |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A week later he boarded a ship bound for New York.
- Before boarding the plane, Jenny tried once more to call home.
- Flight 503 for Toronto is now boarding.
- I board with the Nicholsons during the week.
- I boarded with the Jansens until I found a place of my own.
- Phoebe boards here during the week and goes home at weekends.
- They boarded a flight for Israel.
- Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children.
- My only knowledge is the pubs that still remain but are boarded up.
- Police boarded the Aberdeen to Newcastle plane after the pilot radioed for help.
- The sooner Morgan boarded the chopper and pushed off the better.
Longman Language Activatorto get on a bus, plane etc
to go onto a bus, train etc at the beginning of a journey: · The train stopped in the middle of the night in Nogales. No one got on or off.· We got on the train at Lime Street Station.· Get on a number 73 bus at the corner. That will take you to Islington High Street.· She's old and needs help getting on and off the bus.
to go into a small vehicle, for example a car or boat: · "Can you give me a lift into town?" "Sure. Get in."· Be careful getting into the boat.· I got in a taxi and went to the hospital immediately.
to get on a particular bus, train, or plane in order to go somewhere: · Stephen caught the 6.15 to Birmingham.· If we're quick, we should still be able to catch our train.· Jonathan looked at his watch. "I've got a plane to catch," he said.
informal to get on a bus, train, plane etc, or get into a car, taxi etc, especially after suddenly deciding to: · Karl hopped on the first plane back to Germany.· "Hop in," shouted Lucy, throwing open the door of her van.· She hopped into a cab and told the driver to go to King's Cross.· "Why not hop in the car and come with us?" Myrtle asked with a sly smile.
formal to get on a ship, plane, or train: · A week later he boarded a ship bound for New York.· Before boarding the plane, Jenny tried once more to call home.
formal to get on a ship - use this especially when a large number of people do this: · A large group had assembled at the pier, waiting to embark.embark for: · Their training completed, the regiment embarked for the war zone.
to climb onto a horse: · Can you help Shelly mount?· He mounted the pony and rode off.
if you get on board or aboard a ship or plane, you get onto it: · It was time to get on board the ship.· A group of men, some in military uniform, climbed aboard the plane.· The ship's crew saluted the President as he came aboard.
to stay in someone's house or at a hotel to spend a few days, weeks etc at someone else's house or at a hotel, but not live there permanently: · Where in New Hampshire were you staying?· How long are you staying?stay (for) a few months/two weeks etc: · I was having such a good time in Paris that I phoned my mother to say I was staying another week.stay at/in: · I stayed at my brother's house for a couple of weeks.· Which hotel are you staying at?stay with (=stay at someone's house): · You could stay with John and Anne while you're in London.stay the night/stay over/stay overnight British (=sleep at someone else's house): · Is it all right if I stay the night?· You can stay over, Gail, if it would help.come to stay: · One of Sarah's friends is coming to stay with us this summer.
also visit with American to go to the house of a friend or relative and stay there for some time, because you want to see them: · I went to visit her last winter and I really had a great time.· How much do you visit with your Mom and Dad while you're here?· So are you just visiting friends out here or something?· She sent me some photographs of when she visited in December.
to stay in a room in a family house or in a house where other people have rooms, and where some or all of your meals are provided: · Phoebe boards here during the week and goes home at weekends.board with: · I boarded with the Jansens until I found a place of my own.
British if you lodge in someone's house or in a hotel, you pay money to stay there: lodge in/at/with: · Mrs Gould and her niece are lodging in the Rising Sun.· His wife and kids were forced to lodge with friends until they found a place of their own.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Williams has been chairman of the board for five years. the hospital’s board of governors The puppy, which may have rabies, is at a quarantine kennel. It’s £90 a week for board and lodging (=meals and a room). The next morning I was as stiff as a board (=very stiff).
Williams has been chairman of the board for five years. (=with black and white squares on it)· There was a chess board set up on the table.
formal (=get on one)· When everyone was there, we boarded the coach for the journey home.
(=a board showing the times of planes or trains)· I scanned the departures board for details of my flight.
· Some schools have a display board with photographs of all the staff.
American English (=in order to become a nurse or doctor)· He failed his board exams in psychiatry.
(=get on a flight)· We arrived at the departure lounge to board the flight to Madrid.
· board games such as Monopoly and Scrabble
the hospital’s board of governors The puppy, which may have rabies, is at a quarantine kennel. It’s £90 a week for board and lodging (=meals and a room).· A staff meeting will be held at 3 p.m.
formal (=get on it)· The first three cars were reserved for passengers boarding in Queens.
· We will set up a pay review body for all staff.
(=a school where children also live and sleep)
American English (=the group of people who are elected to govern a school or group of schools)· The courts have upheld the school board's right to dismiss striking teachers.
The next morning I was as stiff as a board (=very stiff).· At Stoke, another passenger boarded the train.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[intransitive, transitive] formal to get on a bus, plane, train etc in order to travel somewhere: - People were boarding and I elbowed my way into line.
- The other option to consider will be boarding kennels.
- There was more to this, when Sammler was boarding in the tomb.
- They want a meeting, they intimate, and are boarding for that purpose now.
- Voters rejected the bridge expansion plan, so it's back to the drawing board for city engineers.
- For San Jose, it was back to the drawing board.
- So Superman, once the most recognized and revered hero in comic books, was sent back to the drawing board.
- Sometimes, you also have to go back to the drawing board.
- The Cta episode has therefore sent the whole idea of direct dating of petroglyphs back to the drawing board.
- They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.
- They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.
- You also could go back to the drawing board with that budget, trying to reduce costs.
- You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.
- Additional programs in international studies and telecommunications were on the drawing board.
- Parisians remain unconvinced that the project will be approved, especially since it is not the only idea on the drawing board.
- Plans also are on the drawing board to develop chips for the cable industry.
- The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board.
- Until that changes, the Tobin tax will remain on the drawing board.
- If the reformists emerge as the largest group, they will sweep the board.
- Last season, they swept the board with all four leading places.
- Now comes a fine Teldec Digital Experience disc which sonically sweeps the board.
- Still, when the outcome was finally confirmed, reformers had swept the board.
- And rather than treading the boards ... they were teetering two feet above them.
- I was 22 or 23 before I decided to tread the boards.
- If they start today they have something under three weeks before treading the boards.
- Morris had no idea she had trodden the boards.
- So it is with a good few of the faithful with whom I trod the boards in my schooldays.
The couple boarded the train for New York. Passengers were standing on the dock, waiting to board.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say get on a bus, plane etc rather than board:· When she heard the news, she got on the next plane for Chicago.2be boarding if a plane or ship is boarding, passengers are getting onto it: Olympic Airways Flight 172 to Istanbul is now boarding at Gate No. 37.3[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to stay in a room in someone’s house that you pay for: Several students boarded with Mrs. Smith.4[intransitive] to stay at a school at night as well as during the day: Dickie was sent away to school as soon as he was old enough to board.board something ↔ out phrasal verb to pay money and arrange for an animal to stay somewhereboard something ↔ up phrasal verb to cover a window or door, or all the windows and doors of a building, with wooden boards: The shop was boarded up.