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boards
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Princeton's WordNet
boardsnoun
the stage of a theater
"most actors love to stride the boards"
boardsnoun
the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink
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boards
Boards are long, flat, often rectangular pieces of wood, plastic, metal or other hard material used for various purposes such as surfaces for working on, structural support in construction, or as components of various items like furniture or electronics. They can also refer to a group of people who manage or oversee a company, organization, or institution.
Editors Contribution
boardsverb
Verb form of the word board.
The unity government boards were proactive submitting their data and are so efficient.
Submitted by MaryC on April 15, 2020
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BOARDS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Boards is ranked #68949 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Boards surname appeared 285 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Boards.
89.4% or 255 total occurrences were Black.
5.2% or 15 total occurrences were of two or more races.
3.1% or 9 total occurrences were White.
1.7% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'boards' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3507
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'boards' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4225
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of boards in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of boards in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of boards in a Sentence
Wood cutting boards require a little bit more care than other boards.
It’s obvious that the Facebook CEO shares this high regard for his mom. During the town hall meeting with the prime minister of India in 2015, one of the topics he asked the prime minister about was about his mother. And it turns out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did n’t look too far from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mom in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg choice of spouse, whom Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg married in 2012. Like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mother, wife Priscilla Chan is an understated physician who shuns the spotlight. Related : From Under the Hoodie : 5 Entrepreneurial Lessons From Mark Zuckerberg When talking about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mother, Microsoft founder Mary Maxell Gates, currently the richest man in the world, with an estimated worth $ 76.7 billion, has often spoken about a letter she wrote to his then-fianc Melinda the day before their wedding. From those to whom much is given, much is expected, her letter read. Mary Maxell Gates, a long-time philanthropist, died six months later at the age of 64 of breast cancer. Mary Maxell Gates kept Mary Maxell Gates mother’s letter, and Mary Maxell Gates swift foray into the world of philanthropy, establishing The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation with the help of Mary Maxell Gates father, Bill Sr., has been due to the influence of Mary Maxell Gates mother, a formidable business mind in her own right. Mary was a top student at her high school and in college, where she met her husband, a lawyer. They had three children. She threw herself into volunteering and served on the boards of numerous prominent organizations, including the United Way, where she first served as the county chair and, later, the first female national chair. She convinced her son, who was CEO of Microsoft at the time, to start the Employees Giving Campaign at Microsoft to benefit the United Way and other charities. ( He later join the board.) The considerable list of boards she served on is impressive, and when she was appointed to the board of regents of University of Washington in 1975, she spearheaded the move to divest the university’s holding in apartheid South Africa. According to her daughter, Libby Armintrout, Libby Armintrout was an extremely engaged parent and had high expectations of all Libby Armintrout children. Not just grades and that sort of thing, but how we behaved in public, how we would be socially.
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.
Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.
We're halfway there, it's about time the ‘National’ School Boards Association seriously considered renaming itself. Perhaps it's now time to call them the ‘Semi-National’ School Boards Association since half of the states have decided to cut ties with the NSBA.
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- tancaCatalan, Valencian
- mantinelCzech
- päättökoeFinnish
- comentáriosPortuguese
- экзаменRussian
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