Board (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc. |
Board (n.) A table to put food upon. |
Board (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food |
Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private |
Board (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board |
Board (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc. |
Board (n.) The stage in a theater |
Board (n.) The border or side of anything. |
Board (n.) The side of a ship. |
Board (n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. |
Board (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding |
Board (n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way. |
Board (n.) To enter, as a railway car. |
Board (n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation |
Board (n.) To place at board, for compensation |
Board (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation |
Board (v. t.) To approach |
Card (n.) A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses |
Card (n.) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like |
Card (n.) A paper on which the points of the compass are marked |
Card (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard. |
Card (n.) An indicator card. See under Indicator. |
Card (v. i.) To play at cards |
Card (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc. |
Card (n.) A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. |
Card (v. t.) To comb with a card |
Card (v. t.) To clean or clear, as if by using a card. |
Card (v. t.) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. |
Game (n.) Crooked |
Game (v. i.) Sport of any kind |
Game (v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake |
Game (v. i.) The use or practice of such a game |
Game (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game |
Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest. |
Game (v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose |
Game (v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen |
Game (a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock |
Game (a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting. |
Game (n.) To rejoice |
Game (n.) To play at any sport or diversion. |
Game (n.) To play for a stake or prize |
Game fowl () A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males. |
Make-game (n.) An object of ridicule |
Sea card () Mariner's card, or compass. |
Sound-board (n.) A sounding-board. |
Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. |
Sounding-board (n.) A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. |
Sounding-board (n.) See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise. |
), a game played with such pieces pushpin. |
Weather-board (v. t.) To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. |
mind game | deliberate actions of calculated psychological manipulation intended to intimidate or confuse (usually for competitive advantage), football players try to play mind games with the opposition, the jeweler's mind game is to convince lovers that the size of a gemstone reflects the depth of their feelings |
game | an amusement or pastime, they played word games, he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time, his life was all fun and games |
game | a contest with rules to determine a winner, you need four people to play this game |
game | a single play of a sport or other contest, the game lasted two hours |
day game | a game played in daylight |
night game | a game played under artificial illumination at night |
away game road game | a game played away from home |
home game | a game played at home |
exhibition game practice game | a game whose outcome is not recorded in the season's standing |
party game | a game to amuse guests at a party |
computer game video game | a game played against a computer |
pinball pinball game | a game played on a sloping board, the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets |
guessing game | a game in which participants compete to identify some obscurely indicated thing |
mind game | any game designed to exercise the intellect |
playoff game | one game in the series of games constituting a playoff |
war game | a simulation of a military operation intended to train military commanders or to demonstrate a situation or to test a proposed strategy |
athletic game | a game involving athletic activity |
ice hockey hockey hockey game | a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks |
outdoor game | an athletic game that is played outdoors |
golf golf game | a game played on a large open course with or holes, the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes |
field game | an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions |
football football game | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal |
American football American football game | a game played by two teams of players on a rectangular field yards long, teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays |
ball game ballgame | a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) |
baseball baseball game r | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players, teams take turns at bat trying to score runs, he played baseball in high school, there was a baseball game on every empty lot, there was a desire for National League ball in the area, play ball! |
perfect game | a game in which a pitcher does not allow any opposing player to reach base |
no-hit game no-hitter | a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team no hits |
softball softball game | a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer |
stickball stickball game | a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle |
court game | an athletic game played on a court |
volleyball volleyball game | a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands |
basketball basketball game hoops | a game played on a court by two opposing teams of players, points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop |
child's game | a game enjoyed by children |
card game cards | a game played with playing cards |
poker poker game | any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highestanking hand |
table game | a game that is played on a table |
parlor game parlour game | a game suitable for playing in a parlor |
word game | any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words |
board game | a game played on a specially designed board |
chess chess game | a board game for two players who move their pieces according to specific rules, the object is to checkmate the opponent's king |
go go game | a board game for two players who place counters on a grid, the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters |
shovel board shove-halfpenny shove-ha'penny | a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark |
game of chance gambling game | a game that involves gambling |
numbers pool numbers game numbers racket numbers | an illegal daily lottery |
crap shooting crapshoot crap game | playing craps |
banking game | any gambling game in which bets are laid against the gambling house or the dealer |
zero-sum game | a game in which the total of all the gains and losses is zero |
game | frivolous or trifling behavior, for actors, memorizing lines is no game, for him, life is all fun and games |
card trick | a trick performed with playing cards |
run running running play running game | (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team, the defensive line braced to stop the run, the coach put great emphasis on running |