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# board

«board» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flat surface in class where the teacher writes: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (board, boards); verb (board, boards, boarded, boarding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A board is a flat surface in class where the teacher writes: a whiteboard or blackboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#m1)

2) A board is a long flat piece of wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#m2)

3) A board is a flat piece for a game: a chess board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#m3)

4) To board is to get on a bus, train, plane or ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#m4)

5) To take something on board means to accept it or understand it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

where the teacher writes how many of each thing are on the table or a sum; in class «write on the board», «come up to the board»; in games board games; in travel «board the plane», «on board»; in everyday life a notice board, a skateboard, a surfboard

### examples

- On the board: apples = 2, pencils = 3, spoons = 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#x1)
- The teacher writes 7 + 5 on the board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#x2)
- There are 4 pictures on the board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#x3)
- Let's play a board game after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#x4)
- Dad nailed two boards together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#x5)
- Please board the bus quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#x6)
- All the passengers are on board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#x7)
- Pin your drawing on the notice board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/#x8)

### note

No operation clue; it shows the counts or a sum. Do not mix «board» with «bored» (feeling dull); they sound the same.

### In the corpora

- [Example: in a house in Brisbane, a "For Sale" board goes up out the front.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/4/)
- [A "For Sale" board means the family has decided to sell the house, and selling usually takes months, not days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/8/)
- [Board-game tips are well written about online, so bots can give real ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/13/)
- [It was reported that an AI beat a world champion at the board game Go, after learning by playing enormous numbers of games.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/6/)
- [A notice-board says «Private.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/28/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «board» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/board/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.