1. n. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
2. n. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
3. n. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
4. n. (Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.)
5. n. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
We have to wait to hear back from the board.
6. n. Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
Room and board
7. n. (nautical) The side of a ship.
8. n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
9. n. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
10. n. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
11. n. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
to bind a book in boards
12. n. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
13. n. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
14. v. To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
It is time to board the aircraft.
15. v. To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
to board one's horse at a livery stable
16. v. To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
17. v. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
18. v. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
19. v. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
20. v. To cover with boards or boarding.
to board a house
21. v. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
22. v. To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
1. n. A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
2. n. A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
Germanization was a central plank of German conservative thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries.
3. n. Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
4. n. (UK, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
5. n. That which supports or upholds.
6. v. To cover something with planking.
to plank a floor or a ship
7. v. To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
8. v. (transitive, colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
to plank money in a wager
9. v. To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
10. v. To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
11. v. (intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
plate
1. n. Plaque.
2. n. (Cuisine) Assiette.
3. n. (Héraldique) Besant (d'argent).
4. v. Plaquer (couvrir en matériau d'une fine couche d'un autre matériau).
plate
1. n. A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
2. n. Such dishes collectively.
3. n. The contents of such a dish.
I ate a plate of beans.
4. n. A course at a meal.
The meat plate was particularly tasty.
5. n. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
6. n. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
A clutch usually has two plates.
7. n. A vehicle license plate.
He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
8. n. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
9. n. A material covered with such a layer.
If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
10. n. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
The tea was served in the plate.
11. n. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
12. n. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
We finished making the plates this morning.
13. n. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
14. n. (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
15. n. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
16. n. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
17. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
Sit down and give your plates a rest.
18. n. (baseball) Home plate.
There was a close play at the plate.
19. n. (geology) A tectonic plate.
20. n. (historical) Plate armour.
He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
21. n. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
22. n. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
23. n. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
24. n. (obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
25. n. (heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
26. n. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
27. n. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
28. n. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
29. n. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
30. n. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
31. n. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
32. n. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
33. n. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
34. n. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
35. n. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
36. v. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
37. v. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
38. v. (baseball) To score a run.
The single plated the runner from second base.
39. v. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
40. n. Precious metal, especially silver.
floorboard
floorboard
1. n. Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.
2. n. The floor of a car.
3. v. To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.
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