The difference between Board and Stage
When used as nouns, board means a relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making, whereas stage means a phase.
When used as verbs, board means to step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance, whereas stage means to produce on a stage, to perform a play.
check bellow for the other definitions of Board and Stage
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Board as a noun:
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
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Board as a noun:
A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
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Board as a noun:
A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
Examples:
"Each player starts the game with four counters on the board."
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Board as a noun:
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Board as a noun:
A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
Examples:
"We have to wait to hear back from the board."
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Board as a noun (uncountable):
Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
Examples:
"Room and board'"
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Board as a noun (nautical):
The side of a ship.
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Board as a noun (nautical):
The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
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Board as a noun (ice hockey):
The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
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Board as a noun (archaic):
A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
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Board as a noun:
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
Examples:
"to bind a book in boards"
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Board as a noun (video games):
A level or stage having a particular layout.
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Board as a noun:
A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards. Board (duplicate bridge)
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Board as a verb (transitive):
To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
Examples:
"It is time to board the aircraft."
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Board as a verb (transitive):
To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
Examples:
"to board one's horse at a livery stable"
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Board as a verb (transitive):
To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
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Board as a verb (transitive, nautical):
To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
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Board as a verb (intransitive):
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
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Board as a verb (transitive, now, rare):
To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
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Board as a verb:
To cover with boards or boarding.
Examples:
"to board a house"
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Board as a verb:
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
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Board as a verb (transitive):
To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
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Board as a noun (basketball, informal):
A rebound.
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Stage as a noun:
A phase.
Examples:
"He is in the recovery stage of his illness."
"Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage."
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Stage as a noun (theater):
A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
Examples:
"The band returned to the stage to play an [[encore]]."
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Stage as a noun:
A floor or storey of a house.
Examples:
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Stage as a noun:
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
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Stage as a noun:
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
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Stage as a noun:
A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
Examples:
"The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies."
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Stage as a noun (dated):
A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
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Stage as a noun (dated):
A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
Examples:
"a stage of ten miles"
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Stage as a noun (electronics):
The number of an electronic circuit's block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
Examples:
"a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter"
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Stage as a noun:
The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
Examples:
"He [[placed]] the [[slide]] on the [[stage]]."
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Stage as a noun (video games):
A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
Examples:
"How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?"
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Stage as a noun:
A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
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Stage as a noun (geology):
The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
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Stage as a verb:
To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
Examples:
"The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice"."
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Stage as a verb:
To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
Examples:
"The salesman’s demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective."
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Stage as a verb:
(Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
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Stage as a verb:
To place in position to prepare for use.
Examples:
"We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag."
"to stage data to be written at a later time"