Word Finder - boards

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A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.

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A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.

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A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

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Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.

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Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.

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A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

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We have to wait to hear back from the board.

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Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.

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Room and board

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The side of a ship.

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The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.

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The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.

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A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.

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Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.

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to bind a book in boards

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A level or stage having a particular layout.

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A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.

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A rebound.

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(with "the") A stage (as in a theater).

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Structure around a rink for ice hockey.

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A hardcover binding on a book.

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His new novel just came out in boards. The paperback will follow in about a year.

I put up boards on all the windows.

It was constructed of narrow boards and chewed by the cutting crampons of hundreds of climbers.

Martha tried the boards for the first time and was surprisingly agile.

The United Presbyterian Church has a board of foreign missions (reorganized in 1859) with missions in Egypt (1853), now a synod with four presbyteries (in 1909, 71 congregations, 70 ministers and 10,341 members), in the Punjab (1854), now a synod with four presbyteries (in 1 909, 35 congregations, 51 ministers and 17,321 members), and in the Sudan (1901); and boards of home missions (reorganized, 1859), church extension (1859), publication (1859), education (1859), ministerial relief (1862), and missions to the freedmen (1863).

Philadelphia is the home of the boards of publication and of Sunday schools of the Northern Church; and in Allegheny (Pittsburg) are the principal theological seminary of the United Presbyterian body and its publishing house.

In the national capital and territories it is supervised by a national council of education with the assistance of local school boards; in the 14 provinces it is under provincial control.

Before the end of 1906 fifty-two separate trades in Victoria had obtained special boards, by whose determinations their operations were controlled.

Unlike the latter, they reproduced the institution of district conciliation boards in addition to the arbitration court; but these boards were a failure here as they were in New Zealand, and after 1903 they fell into disuse.

The administrative officers of the state are a governor, a lieutenantgovernor, a secretary of state, a state treasurer, and an auditor of accounts, elected by popular vote, and an inspector of finance, a commissioner of taxes, a superintendent of education, a fish and game commissioner, three railroad commissioners, and various boards and commissions, of whom some are elected by the General Assembly and some are appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate.

The charitable and penal institutions of the state are controlled by separate boards of directors, but all are subject to the general supervision of a board of visitors composed of the governor, lieutenant-governor and speaker of the House of Representatives, and a woman appointed by the governor.

The most durable of fences are those formed of small oaks, split lengthwise by the wedge into thin boards.

The proceeds of the sale of the suppressed convents and monasteries were partly converted into pensions for monks and nuns, and partly allotted to the municipal charity boards which had undertaken the educational and charitable functions formerly exercised by the religious orders.

There is also a standing court of appeal, known as Unity's Elders' Conference, and consisting of the Mission Board and four provincial boards.

In the eastern and western portions of this city are situated the residences of the highest dignitaries of the empire; while beyond its confines on the south stand the offices of the six of f icial boards which direct the affairs of the eighteen provinces.

The charitable institutions of the state are supervised by separate boards of trustees appointed by the governor.

Subordinate to them are the township boards of trustees, composed of a clerk, and two justices of the peace.

Winnowing was done by women, who tossed the grain into the air with small wooden boards, the chaff being blown away by the winds.

This habit can be used as a means of killing them, by placing boards or sacks covered with tar below the trees, which are then gently shaken.

Light portable boats are sometimes made of very thin boards of fir, sewn together with cord thus manufactured from the roots of the tree.

The Mandaean places of worship, being designed only for the priests and their assistants (the worshippers remaining in the forecourt), are excessively small, and very simply furnished; two windows, a door that opens towards the south so that those who enter have their faces turned towards the pole star, a few boards in the corner, and a gabled roof complete the whole structure; there is neither altar nor decoration of any kind.

Since 18 9 4 women who possess the usual qualifications required of men may vote for and be voted for as members of boards of education.

The governor's control over appointments was strengthened by the constitution of 1851 and by the subsequent creation of statutory offices, boards and commissions, but the right of veto was not given to him until the adoption of the constitutional amendments of 1903.

Of the two chief cities, Cleveland (under a special act providing for the government of Columbus and Toledo, also) in1892-1902was governed under the federal plan, which centralized power in the hands of the mayor; in Cincinnati there was an almost hopeless diffusion of responsibility among the council and various executive boards.

In order to comply with the court's interpretation of the constitution, municipalities were divided into only two classes, cities and villages, the former having a population of five thousand or more; the chief officials in both cities and villages were the mayor, council, treasurer and numerous boards of commissions.

There are state, county and municipal boards of equalization.

Large sums were voted loosely, and expended by executive boards without any budgetary control.

Independence is further curtailed by other state boards semi-independent of the city - the police commission of three members from 1885 to 1906, and in 1906 a single police commissioner, appointed by the governor, a licensing board of three members, appointed by the governor; the transit commission, &c. There are, further, county offices (Suffolk county comprises only Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop), generally independent of the city, though the latter pays practically all the bills.

To avoid the creation of induced currents, the coil frames and the base boards are constructed of slate.

He controls the expenditure of public money for school purposes, the examination and the appointment of teachers, whose nominations by the municipal school boards are referred to the commissioner.

Sanitary institutes are held by the state board at various towns each year for the instruction of the public. Boards of appraisers and equalization oversee the administration of the tax system; the cost of collection, owing to the fee system for payment of collectors, was higher than in any other state of the Union until 1907, when the fees were greatly reduced.

From 1852 to 1891 the city was governed under general laws of the state which entrusted the more important powers to several administrative boards.

Women (since 1898) may vote for school officers and members of library boards, and are eligible for election to any office pertaining to the management of schools or libraries.

In 1586 sugar is mentioned as an import, and in 1646 deal boards were brought here from Hamburg.

Another highly useful palm is the carnauba or carnahuba (Copernicia cerifera) which supplies fruit, medullary meal, food for cattle, boards and timber, fibre, wax and medicine.

Limited judicial powers are exercised by chiefs of police, and by certain department commissions, or boards, of an executive character.

Public opinion as to the " hospital " system of board and education, however, underwent a revolutionary change after the Education Act of 1872 introduced school boards, and the Merchant Company - acting as governors for most of the institutions - determined to board out the children on the foundation with families in the town, and convert the buildings into adequately equipped primary and secondary day-schools.

The gas and electric lighting is in the hands of private firms. The administration of the park, the city improvements and the water and sewerage departments have been handed over to boards and trusts.

The chief towns - Durban; Maritzburg, Ladysmith, Newcastle and Dundee - are governed by municipal corporations and minor towns by local boards.

Among the industries of Belfast are trade with the surrounding country, the manufacture of shoes, leather boards, axes, and sashes, doors and blinds, and the building and repairing of boats.

The municipal boards possess very ' The number of electors at the first registration (1907) was 105,368.

School boards and district committees are formed, but their functions are almost entirely advisory.

City, the vestries and district boards, and the previously established local board of Woolwich (q.v.).

The Metropolitan Board of Works was also given certain powers of supervision over the vestries and district boards, and superseded the commissioners of sewers as authority for main drainage.

The vestries and district boards became the authorities for local drainage, paving, lighting, repairing and maintaining streets, and for the removal of nuisances, &c.

Further, every precept sent by an authority in London for the purpose of obtaining money (these authorities include the London County Council, the receiver of the Metropolitan Police, the Central Unemployed Body and the Boards of Guardians) which has ultimately to be raised out of a rate within a borough is sent direct to the council of the borough instead of filtering through other authorities before reaching the overseers.

Under the Local Government Act 1888, the London County Council makes grants to boards of guardians, sanitary authorities and overseers in London in respect of certain services.

Thenceforth everyone who built a house was strictly charged not to cover it with reeds, rushes, stubble or straw, but only with tiles, shingle boards or lead.

Formerly under the Turnpike Acts many of the more important highways were placed under the management of boards of commissioners or trustees.

Again a new constitution was decreed by which the gonfaloniere and half the priori were to be chosen from the anti maggiori and the other half from the minori; on several other boards the former were to be in the majority, and the three new gilds were abolished.

The power of pardon is also vested in the executive authority of the different states, with or without the concurrence of the legislative authority, although in some states there are boards of pardon of which the governor is a member ex officio.