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BOARDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used in the plural) the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("boards" is a kind of...):
boarding (a structure of boards)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Holonyms ("boards" is a part of...):
ice-hockey rink; ice hockey rink (an ice rink for playing ice hockey)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(used in the plural) the stage of a theater
Example:
most actors love to stride the boards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("boards" is a kind of...):
theater stage; theatre stage (a stage in a theater on which actors can perform)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb board
Context examples:
A dressmaker, always stabbed in the breast with a needle and thread, boards and lodges in the house; and seems to me, eating, drinking, or sleeping, never to take her thimble off.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was one of the kind artists use to hold the paper on their drawing boards, therefore quite appropriate and effective for the purpose it was now being put.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"To-morrow I will put up head-boards with their names," Hans said, when the graves were filled in.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
That he discovered two staples upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for light.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Their ribs is like wash-boards, an' their stomachs is right up against their backbones.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Behind the rails of the balcony I saw there were some loose boards, whose raw edges looked white.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I was able to obtain five very clear impressions of his footmarks: one in the roadway itself, at the point where he had climbed the low wall, two on the lawn, and two very faint ones upon the stained boards near the window where he had entered.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I knew what all this meant, for the servants' dinner-bell was ringing at the very moment over our heads; and as I hate such encroaching people (the Jacksons are very encroaching, I have always said so: just the sort of people to get all they can), I said to the boy directly (a great lubberly fellow of ten years old, you know, who ought to be ashamed of himself), 'I'll take the boards to your father, Dick, so get you home again as fast as you can.' The boy looked very silly, and turned away without offering a word, for I believe I might speak pretty sharp; and I dare say it will cure him of coming marauding about the house for one while. I hate such greediness—so good as your father is to the family, employing the man all the year round!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after another, into the pit and to dig with their fingers, throwing the boards aside as they did so.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
