'On board' definitions:
Definition of 'on board'
From: WordNet
adverb
On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle [syn: aboard, on board]
Definition of 'On board'
From: GCIDE
- Board \Board\ (b[=o]rd), n. [OE. bord, AS. bord board, shipboard; akin to bred plank, Icel. bor[eth] board, side of a ship, Goth. f[=o]tu-baurd footstool, D. bord board, G. brett, bort. See def. 8. [root]92.]
- 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Note: When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A table to put food upon. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often movable, and placed on trestles. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- Fruit of all kinds . . . She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- We may judge from their letters to the board. --Porteus. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards. [1913 Webster]
- 7. pl. The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession. [1913 Webster]
- 8. [In this use originally perh. a different word meaning border, margin; cf. D. boord, G. bord, shipboard, and G. borte trimming; also F. bord (fr. G.) the side of a ship. Cf. Border.] The border or side of anything. (Naut.) (a) The side of a ship. "Now board to board the rival vessels row." --Dryden. See On board, below. (b) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Board is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as, fir board, clapboard, floor board, shipboard, sideboard, ironing board, chessboard, cardboard, pasteboard, seaboard; board measure. [1913 Webster]
- The American Board, a shortened form of "The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" (the foreign missionary society of the American Congregational churches).
- Bed and board. See under Bed.
- Board and board (Naut.), side by side.
- Board of control, six privy councilors formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the British East Indies. --Stormonth.
- Board rule, a figured scale for finding without calculation the number of square feet in a board. --Haldeman.
- Board of trade, in England, a committee of the privy council appointed to superintend matters relating to trade. In the United States, a body of men appointed for the advancement and protection of their business interests; a chamber of commerce.
- Board wages. (a) Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as, to work hard, and get only board wages. (b) Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging. (c) A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging. --Dryden.
- By the board, over the board, or side. "The mast went by the board." --Totten. Hence (Fig.),
- To go by the board, to suffer complete destruction or overthrow.
- To enter on the boards, to have one's name inscribed on a board or tablet in a college as a student. [Cambridge, England.] "Having been entered on the boards of Trinity college." --Hallam.
- To make a good board (Naut.), to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward.
- To make short boards, to tack frequently.
- On board. (a) On shipboard; in a ship or a boat; on board of; as, I came on board early; to be on board ship. (b) In or into a railway car or train. [Colloq. U. S.]
- Returning board, a board empowered to canvass and make an official statement of the votes cast at an election. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'on board'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboard,
- accessible,
- afloat,
- all aboard,
- aloft,
- among us,
- at hand,
- athwart the hawse,
- athwarthawse,
- attendant,
- available,
- before the mast,
- here,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hereat,
- hereinto,
- hereto,
- hereunto,
- hither,
- hitherward,
- hitherwards,
- immanent,
- immediate,
- in sail,
- in this place,
- in this vicinity,
- in view,
- indwelling,
- inherent,
- just here,
- on board ship,
- on deck,
- on hand,
- on shipboard,
- on the spot,
- present,
- somewhere about,
- to this place,
- topside,
- with us,
- within call,
- within reach,
- within sight
Words containing 'On board'
- Board,
- Board and board,
- Boarded,
- Boarding,
- By the board,
- board up,
- boards,
- Bed and board,
- Big Board,
- Board of control,
- Board of trade,
- Board of treasury,
- Board rule,
- Board wages,
- Boarding house,
- Boarding nettings,
- Boarding pike,
- Boarding school,
- Bristol board,
- Ceiling boards,
- Chimney board,
- Council board,
- Crayon board,
- Cribbage board,
- Eaves board,
- Emery board,
- Finger board,
- Float board,
- Fly board,
- Follow board,
- Free board,
- From bed and board,
- Gang board,
- Gathering board,
- Heck board,
- Hole board,
- Ironing board,
- Leather board,
- Limber boards,
- Log board,
- Louver boarding,
- Louver boards,
- Match boarding,
- Molding board,
- Moulding board,
- Paddle board,
- Paling board,
- Plug board,
- Retiring board,
- Returning board,
- Running board,
- School board,
- Serving board,
- Shooting board,
- Skirting board,
- Smoke board,
- Sound boarding,
- Stern board,
- Switch board,
- Tackle board,
- Tar board,
- Tea board,
- The American Board,
- Tivoli board,
- To enter on the boards,
- To go by the board,
- To lap boards,
- Trail boards,
- Traverse board,
- Trestle board,
- Valley board,
- Vestry board,
- above-board,
- across the board,
- advisory board,
- appeal board,
- appeals board,
- backgammon board,
- baffle board,
- batule board,
- beaver board,
- binder board,
- binder's board,
- board foot,
- board game,
- board measure,
- board meeting,
- board member,
- board of appeals,
- board of directors,
- board of education,
- board of regents,
- board of selectmen,
- board of trustees,
- board pennant,
- boarding card,
- boarding pass,
- bread board,
- bulletin board,
- butcher board,
- chairman of the board,
- checker board,
- chess board,
- chopping board,
- circuit board,
- compass board,
- composition board,
- control board,
- corrugated board,
- cpu board,
- cutting board,
- dandle board,
- dart board,
- display board,
- diving board,
- draft board,
- drafting board,
- draining board,
- drawing board,
- floor board,
- go board,
- governing board,
- gypsum board,
- ladle board,
- ledger board,
- memory board,
- monopoly board,
- mortar board,
- mother board,
- notice board,
- ouija board,
- parole board,
- particle board,
- pc board,
- peg board,
- planning board,
- poster board,
- sandwich board,
- shoulder board,
- shovel board,
- sliding board,
- sounding board,
- throwing board,
- tilting board,
- valance board,
- wake board,
- writing board,
- zoning board,
- Sound-board,
- Sounding-board,
- To make a good board,
- To make short boards,
- Weather-board,
- across-the-board,
- board of trade unit,
- bulletin board system,
- call-board,
- electronic bulletin board,
- fall-board,
- federal reserve board,
- staggered board of directors,
- work-board,
- national labor relations board