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noun
The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, basketball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, tennis
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noun
A spine board.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, behind a signal, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The port or larboard side of a ship
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: nautical, transport
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Synonyms: port, larboard, leeboard, left
Antonyms: starboard
verb
To place (a patient) on a spine board.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
a board used to support the back of someone or something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: support
noun
a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: basketball backboard
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: game equipment
History
From back + board.
Likely a borrowing from Dutch bakboord (“portside”) or from Middle Low German backbort, bakbōrt (“portside”). Old English bæcbord (“larboard, portside”) did not survive (in that form) into Middle English; Scottish texts of the 1500s have forms like bawbord, baburd and babord, possibly borrowed from French bâbord; later texts with Scots backburd, backber may have borrowed it from Old Norse bakborði (“portside”). Cognate with West Frisian bakboard (“portside”), German Backbord (“portside”), Danish bagbord (“portside”).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
