boarding
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈbɔrdɪŋ/
:
tablón
- They installed a new boarding around the pool for safety.
People, you know, they're boarding up Beverly Hills.
- People, you know, they're boarding up Beverly Hills.
Examples
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After the storm, we found the boarding on the fence had been damaged.
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And he went to an English boarding school?
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You guys went to boarding school.
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Please have your boarding pass ready.
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So he sent me off to boarding school.
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Many secondary schools in China also provide boarding options, which allow students to live in schools.
Academic text (2008) -
My aunt, my father's youngest sister, runs a private boarding school for girls.
Fiction book (1990) -
Willie Weathers got a full scholarship to play football for a top boarding school.
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The school was formerly a full-time compulsory boarding school operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Academic text (2008) -
In 1832, Prudence Crandall ran a boarding school for girls from eminent white families in Canterbury, Connecticut.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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7.0
A long thin wooden board that overlaps the one below to cover the outside of a building
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3.9
A large flat board that covers inside walls to make a smooth surface
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4.1
A surface or structure made of wooden boards
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8.4
A board along a boat's side that stops water splashing onto the deck
A long thin wooden board that sits on house walls with each board overlapping the one below
A board with a tongue and groove that fits tightly for floors or walls
Compounds
How Protective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Boarding comes from the simple word board, which means 'a flat piece of wood'. So boarding originally meant covering or protecting something by putting wooden boards over it, which is why we still call those protective panels 'boarding'.