board
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 →
2) A board is a long flat piece of wood. tree →
3) A board is a flat piece for a game: a chess board. tree →
4) To board is to get on a bus, train, plane or ship. tree →
5) To take something on board means to accept it or understand it. tree →
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 →
- The teacher writes 7 + 5 on the board. tree →
- There are 4 pictures on the board. tree →
- Let's play a board game after dinner. tree →
- Dad nailed two boards together. tree →
- Please board the bus quietly. tree →
- All the passengers are on board. tree →
- Pin your drawing on the notice board. tree →
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.
- A "For Sale" board means the family has decided to sell the house, and selling usually takes months, not days.
- Board-game tips are well written about online, so bots can give real ones.
- It was reported that an AI beat a world champion at the board game Go, after learning by playing enormous numbers of games.
- A notice-board says «Private.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «board» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.