Difference between Room and Board

What is the difference between Room and Board?

Room as a verb is to reside, especially as a boarder or tenant. while Board as a verb is to step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.

Room

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. Space for something or to carry out an activity. Opportunity or possibility to do something. The people in a room. A forum or chat room. The basic unit of virtual space in interactive fiction. A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. The amount of open water needed for a boat to complete a maneuver in proper fashion.

Example sentence: There's always room for improvement no matter what.

Board

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A relatively long, wide and thin piece of sawn wood or similar material, usually intended for use in construction.A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, etc.A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.The side of a ship.The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windwardA rebound.The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding partyTo obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensationTo approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.

Example sentence: How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

We hope you now know whether to use Room or Board in your sentence.

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