blackboard
- noun
- /ˈblækˌbɔrd/
- Small group of children around a blackboard with a teacher, Margareta, doing numbers.
- write on the blackboard
- chalk on a blackboard
- read the blackboard
That's just a thing which I have drawn on the blackboard, on the flat blackboard.
- That's just a thing which I have drawn on the blackboard, on the flat blackboard.
- Kind of really huge and and all those funny little blackboards, whatever they were for.
- There was Einstein on a bicycle, Einstein against the blackboard, you know, Einstein pulling a face.
- My memory serves like a garbage heap, A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right angle, a rhombus.
- I cannot pronounce his last name towards the end of this trace out on a blackboard.
- So those, those words are easy for me to say and I can't really draw them on a blackboard, but I try with my thick chalk.
- And therefore that book is for every parent, not just to go into a school with a blackboard or a whiteboard and in a row bunch of desks.
- OK, we now go to blackboard for the next slide.
- OK, what about black, gold, black top, blackboard, writing on the blackboard.
Examples
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I could see the chalked words on the blackboard: Early Cities: Athens, Rome.
Fiction book (1993) -
Use easels, pads, sticky notes, blackboards, or whatever is available to get those ideas captured.
Academic text (2008) -
The physics teacher went to the blackboard and said, your honor, my car was moving toward yellow light.
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Who put that sign up on the blackboard?
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A list of events from each class was placed on the blackboard from the class discussions.
Academic text (1995) -
I want you to copy these equations off the blackboard.
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Sometimes a sketch was drawn on the blackboard, explained by the teacher, and then erased.
Academic text (1997) -
I stayed after school on a Friday to help her wash the blackboards and pound erasers.
Fiction book (1991) -
The teacher wrote the math problem on the blackboard for the students to copy.
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During the art lesson, she used the blackboard to demonstrate the new technique.
Synonyms
A flat surface where people put notices and information
A large dark board used for writing with chalk in classrooms
A smooth white board for writing or drawing with markers you can erase
A clear surface lit from the edges for writing while facing an audience or camera
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Etymology
The word blackboard is just the two words black and board put together; it first meant a flat, dark board, often made of slate, that teachers wrote on with chalk. So today a blackboard is a large, flat, dark surface in a classroom that you write on and erase.