board vs bored
Definitions
verb
- provide food and lodging (for)
- lodge and take meals (at)
- live and take one's meals at or in
- get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
noun
- a table at which meals are served
- a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
- food or meals in general
- a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view
Examples
Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk.
Mr Boardman said: ‘I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.’
It was a beautiful wooden skiff, with a little outboard motor, perfect for his part-time second occupation of working a few pots to catch crustacea to sell to local pubs and restaurants.
Definitions
adjective
- uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence
- tired of the world
Examples
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them.
