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boarding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Board \Board\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boarding.]
To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. ``The boarded hovel.''
--Cowper.-
[Cf. Board to accost, and see Board, n.] To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
--Totten. To enter, as a railway car. [Colloq. U. S.]
To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
Boarding \Board"ing\, n.
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(Naut.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate.
--Sir F. Drake. The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
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The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept.
Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it.
Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it.
--Totten.Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "supplying of meals, food and lodging," from board (n.1) in its extended sense of "food" (via notion of "table"). Boarding-school is from 1670s; boarding-house attested from 1728.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of people getting aboard a ship or aircraft; embarkation 2 the act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship 3 a structure made of boards 4 riding a skateboard 5 (context ice hockey English) a penalty called for pushing into the boards vb. (present participle of board English)
WordNet
n. the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft [syn: embarkation, embarkment] [ant: debarkation]
a structure of boards
Wikipedia
Boarding may refer to:
- Temporarily residing somewhere, as in a boarding school or boarding house
- Boarding (ice hockey), a penalty called when an offending player violently pushes or checks an opposing player into the boards of the hockey rink
- Boarding (horses)
- Boarding (transport), transferring people onto a vehicle
- Naval boarding, the forcible insertion of personnel onto a naval vessel
- Waterboarding, a form of torture
Boarding is the entry of passengers onto a vehicle, usually in public transportation. Boarding starts with entering the vehicle and ends with the seating of each passenger and closure of the doors. The term is used in road, water and air transport (for example, passengers board a coach).
Boarding in ice hockey is a penalty called when an offending player pushes, trips or checks an opposing player violently into the boards of the hockey rink. The boarding call is quite often a major penalty due to the likelihood of injury sustained by the player who was boarded, and officials have the discretion to call a game misconduct or a match penalty (if they feel the offense was a deliberate attempt to injure) on the offending player. However, in the NHL, if the boarded player sustains a head or facial injury, the offending player receives an automatic game misconduct. If no injury is sustained, then a minor penalty will be called. In college ice hockey, the player does not need to be injured for it to be a major penalty. Boarding is usually assessed against a player when the opposing player is hit 4–5 feet away from the boards and hits one's head against the boards on the way down.
Usage examples of "boarding".
The Rar sisters put the whole starliner at risk by boarding it - as we did by rendezvousing with it.
Pocked and lumpy, the smaller craft looked more like a mined-out asteroid than a boarding skiff, but the sensor displays showed the heat signatures of at least a hundred warriors inside.
Having spent the last year leading a fierce resistance movement on the occupied world of New Plympto, the sisters were certainly the object of the boarding party's search.
He glanced toward his boarding skiff and, in his own language, ordered, "Duwin tur voxyn.
As the invaders took their prisoners away, a pair of YVH war droids would slip out of the disposal lock with an equipment pod and attach to the bottom of the enemy boarding shuttle.
Like the subaltern of the boarding party, he wore two small villips on his shoulders instead of the usual one.
The strike team had not been warned about the boarding, in part because Lando wanted their reactions to appear genuine, in part because the Yuuzhan Vong had come so quickly.
The Lady Luck had been drifting along beside an outbound comet, waiting for the nav computer to plot the final leg of their journey, when the boarding shuttle came swinging out of the tail.
The transfer deck's inner hatch would seal automatically, then the detonite charges concealed in the exterior hatch of the air lock would explode into the boarding shuttle.
Duman Yaght and the boarding party would be sucked out into space, and the Lady Luck would shoot around the comet and be in hyperspace before the Exquisite Death realized what was happening.
Ulaha closed the pressure hatch at her end of the transfer deck, sealing the rest of the enemy boarding party out in the access corridor.
From the other side of the sealed hatch came muffled shouts and metallic thuds as the rest of the boarding party tried to break into the transfer deck, then Tesar half turned, whipping his thick reptilian tail into the ankles of Duman Yaght and his defender and sweeping both Yuuzhan Vong off their feet.
The floor began to reverberate with heavy footfalls, the rest of the boarding party rushing onto the transfer deck.
Even were she to survive the boarding party's initial assault, she could not endure another breaking.
He came striding down the Jade Shadow's boarding ramp to meet them, shaking his head and wagging his ringer.