Board vs. Table

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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);

Tablenoun

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

Tablenoun

An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.

Tablenoun

A flat tray which can be used as a table.

Tablenoun

The lineup of players at a given table.

Tablenoun

A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.

Tablenoun

A service of Holy Communion.

Tablenoun

A two-dimensional presentation of data.

Tablenoun

A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.

Tablenoun

A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.

Tablenoun

A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.

Tablenoun

(sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.

Tablenoun

(musical instruments) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.

Tablenoun

(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.

Tablenoun

The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.

Tableverb

To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

Tableverb

To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.

Tableverb

(obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.

Tableverb

(non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.

Tableverb

To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something.

Tableverb

To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.

Tableverb

To put on a table.

Tableverb

(nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.

Tablenoun

A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.

Tablenoun

A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet

Tablenoun

Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.

Tablenoun

Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.

Tablenoun

A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.

Tablenoun

An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.

Tablenoun

A list of substances and their properties; especially, the a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.

Tablenoun

Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.

Tablenoun

Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.

Tablenoun

The company assembled round a table.

Tablenoun

The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.

Tablenoun

One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploë, in the walls of the cranium.

Tablenoun

A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.

Tablenoun

The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.

Tablenoun

A circular plate of crown glass.

Tablenoun

The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.

Tablenoun

A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; - called also perspective plane.

Tablenoun

The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.

Tableverb

To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.

Tableverb

To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.

Tableverb

To supply with food; to feed.

Tableverb

To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.

Tableverb

To lay or place on a table, as money.

Tableverb

In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.

Tableverb

To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.

Tableverb

To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

Tableverb

To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.

Tablenoun

a set of data arranged in rows and columns;

Tablenoun

a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs;

Tablenoun

a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it;

Tablenoun

flat tableland with steep edges;

Tablenoun

a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game;

Tablenoun

food or meals in general;

Tableverb

hold back to a later time;

Tablenoun

a piece of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, providing a level surface for eating, writing, or working at

Tablenoun

food provided in a restaurant or household

Tablenoun

a group seated at table for a meal

Tablenoun

a meeting place or forum for formal discussions held to settle an issue or dispute

Tablenoun

the dummy hand (which is exposed on the table).

Tablenoun

a set of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns

Tablenoun

a list of rivals or competitors showing their positions relative to one another; a league table

Tablenoun

multiplication tables

Tablenoun

a collection of data stored in memory as a series of records, each defined by a unique key stored with it.

Tablenoun

a flat, typically rectangular, vertical surface; a panel.

Tablenoun

a horizontal moulding, especially a cornice.

Tablenoun

a slab of wood or stone bearing an inscription.

Tablenoun

a flat surface of a gem.

Tablenoun

a cut gem with two flat faces.

Tablenoun

each half or quarter of a folding board for backgammon.

Tableverb

present formally for discussion or consideration at a meeting

Tableverb

postpone consideration of

Tableverb

strengthen (a sail) by making a hem at the edge.

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