Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
  • noun the stage.
  • noun board examinations (in a profession, as in medicine); -- an informal contraction.

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  • noun Examinations given for entry to college or to qualify for a profession.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of board.
  • noun Plural form of board.
  • noun informal, plurale tantum, with "the" A stage (as in a theater).
  • noun Structure around a rink for ice hockey.
  • noun publishing, informal A hardcover binding on a book.

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  • noun the stage of a theater
  • noun the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink

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Examples

  • _Cutting in boards_, cutting the edges of a book after the boards are laced on.

    Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894

  • _Cutting boards_, wedge-shaped boards somewhat like backing boards, but with the top edge square; used in cutting the edge of a book and in edge-gilding.

    Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894

  • He taught us all kinds of funny sayings, like “When in doubt, get out!” that we wrote in huge black letters on his tag boards of wisdom.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

  • He taught us all kinds of funny sayings, like “When in doubt, get out!” that we wrote in huge black letters on his tag boards of wisdom.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

  • He taught us all kinds of funny sayings, like “When in doubt, get out!” that we wrote in huge black letters on his tag boards of wisdom.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

  • He taught us all kinds of funny sayings, like “When in doubt, get out!” that we wrote in huge black letters on his tag boards of wisdom.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

  • CAUTION: Time spent surfing writing bulletin boards, is not time spent writing!

    Writing Resources zornhau 2004

  • You will think me very discouraging, but I cannot help it, and I am also afraid that putting plays experimentally on the boards is a very costly entertainment.

    Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography 1913

  • Some form of this statement appears seemingly everywhere from cheesy church bulletin boards to a great Elvis Costello song.

    The senator from Blue Cross (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • I spend a lot of time reading bulletin boards and utility poles.

    Miss Behavior. 2009

  • Then you screw in the tapered dowel legs and add four fabric-covered sheets of wood (bunkie boards), which provide support for the mattress.

    The Best Modern Bed Frames to Dress Up Your Bedroom 2022

  • Much of the copy was inspired by preexisting Goop posts, which focused on things like the healing properties of lentils or the dangers of nightshades or something called “love boards” which was a nice way of calling sliced apples arranged on a cutting board.

    Gwyneth Paltrow Got Me Fired* Lauren Mechling 2025

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  • In bookbinding, the stiff card stock used for the front and back of a book.

    February 22, 2007