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| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of wood |
| Synonyms: | panel, plank, strip, timber, lath, slat |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | embark on vehicle |
| Synonyms: | catch, enter, get on, mount, climb on, embus, emplane, entrain, hop on |
| Antonyms: | disembark, get off, leave |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meal |
| Synonyms: | eats*, fare, food, keep*, mess, provisions, victuals, daily bread |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | provide food and sleeping quarters |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, bed, canton, feed, harbor, house, lodge, put up, quarter, room, care for, let crash |
| Antonyms: | turn out |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group of advisers |
| Synonyms: | brass, cabinet, committee, conclave, council, front office*, jury, panel, upstairs, advisers, advisory group, directorate, directors, execs, executive suite, executives, trustees |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accommodations |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of residence, usually temporary |
| Synonyms: | apartment, board, crash pad*, crib*, hotel, house, housing, lodging, motel, pad*, quarters, roof, room and board, rooming house, shelter, boardinghouse, digs, rooms |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bboard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | electronic messaging system |
| Synonyms: | board, bulletin board, BBS, bulletin board system |
| Main Entry: | bulletin board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | electronic messaging system |
| Synonyms: | bboard, board, BBS, bulletin board system |
| Main Entry: | committee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group working on project |
| Synonyms: | board, bureau, cabinet, chamber, commission, convocation, council, jury, panel, task force, consultants, investigators, representatives, trustees |
| Main Entry: | constituent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | element |
| Synonyms: | board, component, division, essential, factor, fraction, ingredient, part, part and parcel, portion, principle, unit, fixins, makings, plug-in |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | council |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people assembled for purpose |
| Synonyms: | assembly, board, body, brain trust*, cabinet, chamber, clan, committee, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, diet, gang, gathering, huddle*, kitchen cabinet*, meet, ministry, mob, outfit, panel, parliament, powwow*, ring, synod, confab, directorate, governing body, groupthink, official family, senate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | embark |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get on transportation object |
| Synonyms: | board, commence, enter, launch, set sail, emplane, entrain, go aboard ship, leave port, plunge into, put on board, set about, set out, take on board, take ship |
| Antonyms: | disembark, stay |
| Main Entry: | factor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determinant |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, aid, antecedent, aspect, board, cause, circumstance, component, consideration, constituent, element, fixin's, influence, ingredient, instrument, instrumentality, item, makin's, means, part, part and parcel, point, portion, thing |
| Main Entry: | food |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible material |
| Synonyms: | bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow*, comestible, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats*, entrée, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, grit*, groceries*, grub*, handout*, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provision, ration, refreshment, slop*, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, tuck, vittles*, aliment, cookery, foodstuff, goodies, home cooking, moveable feast, take out, viand, victual |
| Antonyms: | beverage, drink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | panel that hears legal matter |
| Synonyms: | board, tribunal, judges, peers |
| Main Entry: | meal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food, often taken by several individuals |
| Synonyms: | board, breakfast, chow*, collation, cookout, dessert, dinner, eats*, fare, feast, feed, grub*, lunch, mess, picnic, refreshment, repast, snack, special*, spread, square meal*, table, tea, blue plate, brunch, carryout, chow time, din-din, luncheon, munchies, potluck, refection, regalement, supper, together banquet |
| Antonyms: | snack |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | panel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | committee |
| Synonyms: | board, bureau, cabinet, commission, council, forum, group, jury, task force, tribunal, consultants, representatives |
| Main Entry: | rung |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | notch, step |
| Synonyms: | bar, board, degree, grade, level, rod, round, stage, tread, crossbar, crosspiece, rundle |
| Main Entry: | slab |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chunk of solid object |
| Synonyms: | bar, billet, bit, board, chip, cut, cutting, hunk, ingot, lump, muck, piece, plate, portion, rod, slice, stick, stone, strip, wedge, boulder, stave |
| Main Entry: | stick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pole, often wooden |
| Synonyms: | bar, bat, baton, billet, bludgeon, board, branch, cane, club, cudgel, ingot, mast, rod, rule, ruler, shoot, slab, staff, stake, stalk, stem, strip, switch, timber, twig, wand, wedge, birch, drumstick, ferrule, slat, stave |
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