Amenity
(n.) The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition |
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 |
Bond service
() The condition of a bond servant |
Bord service
() Service due from a bordar |
Knight service
() A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4. |
Service
() Alt. of Service |
Service
() A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. |
Service
(n.) The act of serving |
Service
(n.) The deed of one who serves |
Service
(n.) Office of devotion |
Service
(n.) Hence, a musical composition for use in churches. |
Service
(n.) Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge |
Service
(n.) Useful office |
Service
(n.) Profession of respect |
Service
(n.) The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it |
Service
(n.) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law |
Service
(n.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc. |
Service
(n.) The act of serving the ball. |
Service
(n.) Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13. |
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. |
Weather-board
(v. t.) To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. |
| service | the performance of duties by a waiter or servant, that restaurant has excellent service |
| curb service | service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles |
| self-service | the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria) |
overhaul
inspection and repair
service | periodic maintenance on a car or machine, it was time for an overhaul on the tractor |
service serving
service of process | the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone, he accepted service of the subpoena |
| service cutback | the act of reducing service |
| board game | a game played on a specially designed board |
shovel board
shove-halfpenny
shove-ha'penny | a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark |
serve
service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play, his powerful serves won the game |
| service | work done by one person or group that benefits another, budget separately for goods and services |
| consulting service | service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) |
| advisory service | a consulting service in which a CPA develops findings and conclusions and recommendations that are presented to the client for consideration and decision making |
attestation service
attestation report | a consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else |
| national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
| service | (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him |
| military service | land tenure by service in the lord's army |
| knight's service | land tenure by service to the lord as a knight |
welfare work
social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
| service | employment in or work for another, he retired afteryears of service |
| public service | employment within a government system (especially in the civil service) |
sea-duty
service abroad
shipboard duty | naval service aboard a ship at sea |
servicing
service | the act of mating by male animals, the bull was worth good money in servicing fees |
extension
extension service
university extension | an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students |
service religious service
divine service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules, the Sunday service |
church service
church | a service conducted in a house of worship, don't be late for church |
prayer meeting
prayer service | a service at which people sing hymns and pray together |
chapel service
chapel | a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar, he was late for chapel |
| committal service | service committing a body to the grave, the committal service will be held next Monday |
conscription
muster
draft selective service | compulsory military service |
| service | an act of help or assistance, he did them a service |
disservice
ill service
ill turn | an act intended to help that turns out badly, he did them a disservice |
| community service | an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence |
| community service public service | a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions |
| inter-service support | action by one military service to provide logistic (or administrative) support to another military service |
| service call | a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service |
| backgammon board | the board on which backgammon is played |
baffle
baffle board | a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy |
baseboard
mopboard
skirting board | a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor |
| beaver board | a light wallboard made of compressed wood pulp |
| big board | the large display board at the New York Stock Exchange that reports on stocks traded on the exchange |
| board | a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose, he nailed boards across the windows |
| board gameboard | a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games, he got out the board and set up the pieces |
| board rule | a measure used in computing board feet |
breadboard
bread board | a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced |
bulletin board
notice board | a board that hangs on a wall, displays announcements |
bulletin board system
bulletin board electronic bulletin board
bbs | a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest |
butcher board
butcher block | a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood |
cable cable television
cable system
cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
| call-board | a bulletin board backstage in a theater |
checkerboard
checker board | a board having squares of two alternating colors |