Synonyms of the word

board

• n. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction…
• n. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control…
• n. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
• n. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
• n. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
• n. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
• n. (nautical) The side of a ship.
• n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
• n. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
• n. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
• n. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
• n. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
• n. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players…
• v. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
• v. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
• v. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her…
• v. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
• v. To cover with boards or boarding.
• v. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
• v. (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
• n. (basketball, informal) A rebound.

add-in

• n. (computing) A plug-in.

card

• n. A playing card.
• n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
• n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
• n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
• n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
• n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
• n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how…
• n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide…
• n. A greeting card.
• n. A business card.
• n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed…
• n. test card.
• n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
• n. (dated) A printed programme.
• n. (dated, figuratively, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
• n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
• n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus…
• n. An indicator card.
• v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
• v. (dated) To play cards.
• n. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
• n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
• n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material…
• n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
• n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
• v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
• v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
• v. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
• n. Abbreviation of cardinal. (songbird).

cater

• v. (transitive) To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
• v. (transitive, often with to) To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
• n. (obsolete) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
• v. (obsolete) To cut diagonally.
• n. (card games, dice games) The four of cards or dice.

commission

• n. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
• n. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
• n. The thing to be done as agent for another.
• n. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
• n. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
• n. The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
• v. (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
• v. (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art).
• v. (transitive) To put into active service.

committee

• n. a body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with…
• n. (archaic) a guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or…

display

• n. A show or spectacle.
• n. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
• n. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
• v. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
• v. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
• v. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
• v. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
• v. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
• v. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.

dwell

• n. (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
• n. (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
• n. (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
• n. (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow…
• v. (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
• v. (intransitive) To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on).
• v. (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
• v. (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.

enter

• v. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
• v. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
• v. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
• v. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
• v. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
• v. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
• v. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
• v. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in…
• v. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods),…
• v. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars…
• v. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”).

fare

• n. (obsolete) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
• n. Money paid for a transport ticket.
• n. A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
• n. Food and drink.
• n. Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
• n. (Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.
• v. (intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience,…
• v. (intransitive) To eat, dine.
• v. (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.

gameboard

• n. (board games) A portable surface marked for playing a game, and on which the counters or other pieces…
• n. (video games) The playfield.

habituate

• v. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
• v. To settle as an inhabitant.

inhabit

• v. (transitive) To live or reside in.
• v. (transitive) To be present in; to occupy.

live

• v. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
• v. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
• v. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
• v. (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
• v. (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
• v. (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
• v. (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
• v. (intransitive) To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself;…
• v. (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full rich life.
• adj. (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
• adj. Being in existence; actual.
• adj. Having active properties; being energized.
• adj. Operational; being in actual use rather than in testing.
• adj. (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
• adj. (sports) Still in active play.
• adj. (broadcasting) Seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens.
• adj. Of a performance or speech, in person.
• adj. Of a recorded performance, made in front of an audience, or not having been edited after recording.
• adj. Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.
• adj. (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution…
• adj. (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
• adj. Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
• adj. Being in a state of ignition; burning.
• adj. (obsolete) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing.
• adj. (obsolete) Vivid; bright.
• adv. Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
• adv. Of making a performance or speech, in person.

lumber

• n. (Canada, US, uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
• n. (Britain) Useless things that are stored away.
• n. (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
• n. (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
• v. (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily.
• v. (transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
• v. To heap together in disorder.
• v. To fill or encumber with lumber.

panel

• n. A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.; (architecture)…
• n. A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for…
• n. An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
• n. (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally,…
• n. (law, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
• n. (obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
• n. A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
• n. (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
• n. (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
• n. (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
• n. (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
• n. (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system…
• n. (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt…
• n. A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
• v. to fit with panels.

plank

• n. A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
• n. A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position…
• n. Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
• n. (Britain, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
• n. That which supports or upholds.
• v. (transitive) To cover something with planking.
• v. (transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
• v. (transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
• v. To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
• v. (intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.

plug-in

• adj. Designed to be plugged into an electrical power outlet or circuit.
• n. Anything that plugs into something.
• n. (computing) A computer program module or device that interacts with another to add a specific function,…

ply

• n. A layer of material.
• n. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.
• n. (colloquial) Plywood.
• n. (artificial intelligence, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made…
• n. (now chiefly Scotland) State, condition.
• v. (transitive) To bend; to fold.
• v. (intransitive) To flex.
• v. (transitive) To work at diligently.
• v. (intransitive) To work diligently.
• v. (transitive) To use vigorously.
• v. (transitive) To travel over regularly.
• v. (transitive) To persist in offering something to.
• v. (transitive) To press upon; to urge importunately.
• v. (transitive) To employ diligently; to use steadily.
• v. (nautical) To work to windward; to beat.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

room

• adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.
• adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
• adv. (nautical) Off from the wind.
• n. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something).
• n. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
• n. (archaic) A particular portion of space.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
• n. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
• n. (obsolete) Place; stead.
• n. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
• n. (countable) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
• n. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
• n. (always in the singular) The people in a room.
• n. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
• n. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
• n. (Internet, countable) A forum or chat room.
• n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
• v. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
• v. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

sheet

• n. A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
• n. A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping,…
• n. A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
• n. A thin, flat layer of solid material.
• n. A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
• n. (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
• n. (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
• n. (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
• n. (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
• n. (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
• n. (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
• n. (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
• v. To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
• v. Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.
• v. (nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

surface

• n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
• n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
• n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
• n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
• v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
• v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
• v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
• v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
• v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

table

• n. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
• n. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
• n. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the…
• n. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
• v. To put on a table.
• v. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table).
• v. (US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
• v. To tabulate; to put into a table.
• v. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
• v. To supply with food; to feed.
• v. (carpentry) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the…
• v. To enter upon the docket.
• v. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the…

timber

• n. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
• n. (Britain, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
• n. (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy…
• n. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
• n. (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards;…
• n. (music) A misspelling of timbre, the quality of a musical note or sound or tone, independent of its pitch…
• interj. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
• v. (transitive) To fit with timbers.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
• v. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
• v. (obsolete) To make a nest.
• v. To surmount as a timber does.

use

• n. The act of using.
• n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
• n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
• n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
• n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
• n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
• n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
• n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
• n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
• v. To accustom; to habituate.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
• v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
• v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
• v. (transitive) To exploit.
• v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
• v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
• v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
• v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
• v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.