board
n. countablen. a flat piece of wood or other hard material used for a specific purpose. It can also mean the group of people who make the important decisions for a company.
n. a flat, thin, rectangular piece of rigid material; alternatively, a formal committee of people who manage or direct an organisation.
The teacher writes the homework on the board.
The company's board met yesterday to discuss the new budget and approve the hiring of a new director.
After the storm, the shopkeeper used a thick wooden board to cover the broken window until a glazier could arrive to replace the glass.
A wooden board Board (duplicate bridge) From Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic bord, from Proto-Germanic burdą (“board, plank; edge; table”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰers- (“tip, top”) + -dʰh₁eti or bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”) + -dʰh₁eti. The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table." Cognates Cognate with Scots buird (“board; table”), Yola borde (“table”), West Frisian boerd (“board”), Dutch bord (“dish, plate; board, plank; sign”), boord (“border, boundary; bank, shore”), German Bord (“shelf”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish bord (“plank; table”), Elfdalian buord (“table”), Faroese and Icelandic borð (“board, plank; table”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (baurd, “board, plank”) (whence 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (fōtubaurd, “footstool”).
From backboard.
When referring to a committee, it can take either a singular or plural verb in British English, but usually takes a singular verb in American English.
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back to the drawing board
Indicates that one must try a different strategy in order to achieve some goal following the failure of a recent attempt.
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go back to the drawing board
To start again; to scrap a previous idea or plan and try again from the beginning.
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go by the board
To fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship.