BOARDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boarding mean? 

• BOARDING (noun)
  The noun BOARDING has 2 senses:

1. the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft

2. a structure of boards

  Familiarity information: BOARDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOARDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boarding; embarkation; embarkment

Hypernyms ("boarding" is a kind of...):

departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A structure of boards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("boarding" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boarding"):

boards ((used in the plural) the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink)

flashboard; flashboarding (boarding place along the top of a dam to increase its height)

 Context examples 

I've decided that boarding with my sister is too expensive, and I am going to board myself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"My dear, go out to service in that great boarding house!" and Mrs. March looked surprised, but not displeased.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In this connection I cannot forbear relating my first experience with a boarding sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“The ouse that I am stopping at—a sort of a private hotel and boarding ouse, Master Copperfield, near the New River ed—will have gone to bed these two hours.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Even at Friar’s Oak we had heard how, in the little Speedy, of fourteen small guns with fifty-four men, he had carried by boarding the Spanish frigate Gamo with her crew of three hundred.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It's there she learned 'Pieces of eight,' and little wonder; three hundred and fifty thousand of 'em, Hawkins! She was at the boarding of the viceroy of the Indies out of Goa, she was; and to look at her you would think she was a babby. But you smelt powder—didn't you, cap'n?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)