workboard
- noun
- /ˈwɜrkˌbɔrd/
:
tablero de trabajo
- He placed the tools neatly on the workboard before starting the project.
Examples
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The artist spread her supplies across the workboard to begin her painting.
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After clearing the dust, she set her plans on the workboard for the renovation.
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"Great," Heikki said, and reached for the nearest workboard.
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She sighed then and set her workboard aside.
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He rose politely at their entrance, but his eyes were still on the workboard lying on the desk.
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She sighed, not entirely displeased, and reached again for the workboard, recalling the map.
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Heikki leaned back behind her workboard, a cup of the hostel's excellent coffee in her hands, and stared at the face projected on the media wall.
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She took the message block from Djuro, plugged it into the workboard's socket, but let the data reel by without really looking at it.
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Back in her cabin, Heikki settled herself on her bunk, propping her workboard in front of her, but she could not seem to concentrate on the preliminary search pattern she had mapped out before leaving EP7.
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She leaned over the workboard, typing in sequences that brought the mall menus onto the main screen, and spent an hour browsing through Lowlands' only bookstore.
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Synonyms
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2.7
A flat surface like a table or countertop where you do work
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2.9
A table used for tasks like sewing or writing
A flat board that you use as a surface for sewing, carving, or other crafts
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Morphology
Etymology
Workboard is a simple compound of work and board. 'Work' means doing a task and 'board' means a flat surface or piece of wood, so a workboard is a flat surface you use to do hands-on work.