board vs group

board

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

  • A rebound. 

  • The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • The side of a ship. 

  • A level or stage having a particular layout. 

  • A flat surface with markings for playing a board game. 

verb
  • To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance. 

  • To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party 

  • To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money. 

  • To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation 

  • To cover with boards or boarding. 

  • To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money. 

  • Antonyms: alight, disembark 

  • To hit (someone) with a wooden board. 

  • To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard. 

group

noun
  • A commercial organization. 

  • A column in the periodic table of chemical elements. 

  • An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter. 

  • A (usually small) group of people who perform music together. 

  • An air force formation. 

  • A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals. 

  • A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. 

  • A subset of a culture or of a society. 

  • A functional group. 

  • A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other. 

  • A collection of formations or rock strata. 

  • A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes. 

  • A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. 

  • A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division. 

verb
  • To come together to form a group. 

  • To put together to form a group. 

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