boarding

The act of people getting aboard a ship, aircraft, train, bus, etc.; embarkation.

Noun

  1. The act of people getting aboard a ship, aircraft, train, bus, etc.; embarkation.
    • Load profiles are a standard analysis tool showing passenger activity (boardings, alightings) and passenger load at each stop along a route in a single direction. - 2000, Peter Gregory Furth, Data Analysis for Bus...
  2. The act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship by boarding it.
  3. A structure made of boards.
  4. The riding of a skateboard.
  5. A penalty called for pushing into the boards.

Origin

By surface analysis, board + -ing.

Forms

boardings

Derived

antiboarding boarding card boarding craft boarding-house boarding pass boarding school boarding stable droneboarding e-boarding flexi-boarding heliboarding nonboarding open boarding riverboarding volcano boarding

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of board