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boards

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. boardsnoun

    the stage of a theater

    "most actors love to stride the boards"

  2. boardsnoun

    the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink

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  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'boards' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3507

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'boards' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4225

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of boards in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of boards in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of boards in a Sentence

  1. White House:

    President Biden ’ll use Georgia as an example, highlighting that after Georgians decisively voted for new leadership in 2020, Republicans in the legislature decided that they could not win on the merits of their ideas and instead passed a voter suppression law that targeted mail-in voting, limited precincts in areas that did n’t vote the way they wanted, and empowered partisans in the state legislature to manipulate local boards of election.

  2. James Cooper:

    On critical issues such as the sale of products that may threaten the safety or well-being of communities, corporate boards must exercise their oversight role to assure balance among customer, shareholder, and societal interests.

  3. Molly Schwarzhoff:

    They always did their homework, but now they have the opportunity to see board members to see where they stand on the political realm and how they interact with one another before even submitting an application, it's just important that those boards realize that they're being observed, and they're being interviewed. It's a two-way street now. That's kind of what COVID has done is they've opened up this two-way street for interviews.

  4. William Barr:

    I am not going to do anything that I think is wrong, and I will not be bullied into doing anything I think is wrong, by anybody. Whether it be editorial boards, or Congress or the President. I'm going to do what I think is right.

  5. Andrea Mitchell:

    Education, Glenn Youngkin is almost a textbook case of someone who has taken a cultural issue, and arguably distorted it, that is the accusation and according to all of our fact-checking, you know, critical race theory is not taught in Virginia schools, it’s not a big deal, but it’s become, you know, a cause of outrage in so many school boards.

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