Board vs. Solitaire

Boardnoun

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

Boardnoun

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

Boardnoun

A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

Boardnoun

Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.

Boardnoun

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

Boardnoun

(uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.

Boardnoun

(nautical) The side of a ship.

Boardnoun

(nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.

Boardnoun

(ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.

Boardnoun

(archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.

Boardnoun

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

Boardnoun

(video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.

Boardnoun

A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards. Board (duplicate bridge)

Boardnoun

A rebound.

Boardverb

(transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.

Boardverb

(transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.

Boardverb

(transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.

Boardverb

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

Boardverb

(intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation

Boardverb

To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.

Boardverb

To cover with boards or boarding.

Boardverb

To hit (someone) with a wooden board.

Boardverb

(transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.

Boardnoun

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, - used for building, etc.

Boardnoun

A table to put food upon.

Boardnoun

Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; - usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.

Boardnoun

A table at which a council or court is held.

Boardnoun

A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.

Boardnoun

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

Boardnoun

The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.

Boardnoun

The border or side of anything.

Boardverb

To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.

Boardverb

To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.

Boardverb

To enter, as a railway car.

Boardverb

To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

Boardverb

To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.

Boardverb

To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.

Boardverb

To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

Boardnoun

a committee having supervisory powers;

Boardnoun

a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose;

Boardnoun

a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes

Boardnoun

a board on which information can be displayed to public view

Boardnoun

a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games;

Boardnoun

food or meals in general;

Boardnoun

electrical device consisting of an insulated panel containing switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices;

Boardnoun

a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities

Boardnoun

a table at which meals are served;

Boardverb

get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)

Boardverb

live and take one's meals at or in;

Boardverb

lodge and take meals (at)

Boardverb

provide food and lodging (for);

Solitairenoun

A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.

Solitairenoun

A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.

Solitairenoun

Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called patience in the rest of the world.

Solitairenoun

An extinct bird related to the dodo, Pezophaps solitaria, Rodrigues solitaire, that lived on the island of Rodrigues.

Solitairenoun

An extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo, more precisely Réunion solitaire, Raphus solitarius, now preferably Réunion ibis, Threskiornis solitarius.

Solitairenoun

One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.

Solitairenoun

A single gem, usually a diamond, mounted in a piece of jewellery by itself.

Solitairenoun

(obsolete) A black neck ribbon worn with a bag wig in the 18th century.

Solitaireadjective

living or being alone; solitary

Solitairenoun

A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.

Solitairenoun

A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.

Solitairenoun

A game which one person can play alone; - applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.

Solitairenoun

A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.

Solitairenoun

a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself

Solitairenoun

extinct flightless bird related to the dodo

Solitairenoun

dull gray North American thrushes noted for its beautiful song

Solitairenoun

a card game played by one person

Solitaire

Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards, but also with dominoes. The term is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones.