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Received-Pronunciation:
wītbôd
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Received-Pronunciation:
/ˈwaɪtbɔːd/
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wītbôrd
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/ˈwaɪtbɔɹd/
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A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common space, and the walls were covered with white board, which quickly became a tangle of multicolored lines, words, circles, and squiggles.
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A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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To use a whiteboard, to write on a writeboard
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From white + board, modelled on blackboard.
Across languages
Translations
80 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic :
سَبُورَة بَيْضَاء
(sabūra bayḍāʔ)
— large vertical writing area
Basque :
arbel zuri
— large vertical writing area
Belarusian :
бе́лая до́шка
(bjélaja dóška)
— large vertical writing area
Belarusian :
до́шка
(dóška)
— large vertical writing area
Bengali :
হোয়াইট বোর্ড
(hōẇaiṭ bōrḍo)
— large vertical writing area
Bulgarian :
бя́ла дъска́
(bjála dǎská)
— large vertical writing area
Catalan :
pissarra blanca
— large vertical writing area
Chinese Cantonese :
白板
(baak6 baan2)
— large vertical writing area
Chinese Mandarin :
白板
(báibǎn)
— large vertical writing area
Cornish :
bord gwynn
— large vertical writing area
Czech :
tabule
— large vertical writing area
Czech :
bílá tabule
— large vertical writing area
Danish :
whiteboard
— large vertical writing area
Dutch :
whiteboard
— large vertical writing area
Esperanto :
skribtabulo
— large vertical writing area
Finnish :
valkotaulu
— large vertical writing area
French :
tableau
— large vertical writing area
French :
tableau blanc
— large vertical writing area
German :
Tafel
— large vertical writing area
German :
Weißwandtafel
— large vertical writing area
German :
Whiteboard
— large vertical writing area
Greek :
λευκοπίνακας
(lefkopínakas)
— large vertical writing area
Hindi :
व्हाइटबोर्ड
(vhāiṭborḍ)
— large vertical writing area
Hindi :
वाइटबोर्ड
(vāiṭborḍ)
— large vertical writing area
Ingrian :
doska
— large vertical writing area
Irish :
clár bán
— large vertical writing area
Italian :
lavagna
— large vertical writing area
Italian :
lavagna bianca
— large vertical writing area
Japanese :
ホワイトボード
(howaitobōdo)
— large vertical writing area
Japanese :
白板
(hakuban)
— large vertical writing area
Khmer :
ក្ដារខៀនស
(kdaa khiən sɑɑ)
— large vertical writing area
Korean :
화이트보드
(hwaiteubodeu)
— large vertical writing area
Korean :
백판
(baekpan)
— large vertical writing area
Lao :
ກະດານຂາວ
(ka dān khāo)
— large vertical writing area
Latvian :
tāfele
— large vertical writing area
Lithuanian :
balta lenta
— large vertical writing area
Lithuanian :
baltoji lenta
— large vertical writing area
Macedonian :
бела табла
(bela tabla)
— large vertical writing area
Malay :
papan putih
— large vertical writing area
Māori :
papamā
— large vertical writing area
Norman :
blianche plianche
— large vertical writing area
Norwegian Bokmål :
whiteboard
— large vertical writing area
Norwegian Bokmål :
tusjtavle
— large vertical writing area
Dari :
تَخْتِهٔ سَفید
(taxti-yi safēd)
— large vertical writing area
Iranian Persian :
تَخْتِهٔ سِفید
(taxte-ye sefid)
— large vertical writing area
Iranian Persian :
تَخْتِهسِفید
(taxte-sefid)
— large vertical writing area
Iranian Persian :
وایْتبُرْد
(vâyt-bord)
— large vertical writing area
Polish :
tablica suchościeralna
— large vertical writing area
Polish :
tablica
— large vertical writing area
Portuguese :
quadro branco
— large vertical writing area
Quechua :
pirqa qillqana
— large vertical writing area
Romanian :
tablă
— large vertical writing area
Russian :
доска́
(doská)
— large vertical writing area
Russian :
бе́лая доска́
(bélaja doská)
— large vertical writing area
Scottish Gaelic :
bòrd-geal
— large vertical writing area
Serbo-Croatian :
бела табла
— large vertical writing area
Serbo-Croatian :
бијела табла
— large vertical writing area
Serbo-Croatian :
bela tabla
— large vertical writing area
Serbo-Croatian :
bijela tabla
— large vertical writing area
Slovak :
biela tabuľa
— large vertical writing area
Slovene :
bela tabla
— large vertical writing area
Spanish :
pizarra
— large vertical writing area
Spanish :
pizarra blanca
— large vertical writing area
Spanish :
pizarrón albo
— large vertical writing area
Swahili :
ubao mweupe
— large vertical writing area
Swedish :
vit tavla
— large vertical writing area
Swedish :
skrivtavla
— large vertical writing area
Swedish :
whiteboard
— large vertical writing area
Tajik :
тахтаи сафед
— large vertical writing area
Thai :
ไวท์บอร์ด
— large vertical writing area
Thai :
กระดานขาว
(grà-daan-kǎao)
— large vertical writing area
Turkish :
beyaz tahta
— large vertical writing area
Ukrainian :
бі́ла до́шка
(bíla dóška)
— large vertical writing area
Ukrainian :
до́шка
(dóška)
— large vertical writing area
Urdu :
وائِٹ بورْڈ
(vāiṭ borḍ)
— large vertical writing area
Urdu :
تَخْتَۂ سَفید
— large vertical writing area
Vietnamese :
bảng trắng
— large vertical writing area
Lithuanian :
interaktyvi lenta
— collaborative tool
Lithuanian :
interaktyvioji lenta
— collaborative tool
Polish :
tablica multimedialna
— collaborative tool