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ABOARD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

On first or second or third base

Example:

Their second homer with Bob Allison aboard

Classified under:

Adverbs

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle

Synonyms:

aboard; on board

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 3

Meaning:

Part of a group

Example:

Bill's been aboard for three years now

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 4

Meaning:

Side by side

Example:

anchored close aboard another ship

Synonyms:

aboard; alongside

Classified under:

Adverbs

Credits

 Context examples: 

In the early morning hours of July 8, mission scientists received this new view of Pluto—the most detailed yet returned by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard New Horizons.

(A “Heart” from Pluto as Flyby Begins, NASA)

The two knights had come aboard the cog, and the grapplings having been thrown off, the three vessels now moved abreast.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Which were the ships that laid her aboard?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Was your baggage aboard the ship?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After a nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)

The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system’s largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

“He’s your boat-puller when you’ve got him in the boat; but he’s my sailor when I have him aboard, and I’ll do what I damn well please with him.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If Mas'r Davy and my sister comes aboard at Gravesen', arternoon o' next day, they'll see the last on us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This cargo was consigned to a Whitby solicitor, Mr. S. F. Billington, of 7, The Crescent, who this morning went aboard and formally took possession of the goods consigned to him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

White Fang saw his mother taken aboard Three Eagles' canoe, and tried to follow her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)