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An example use of board in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… can write that our board and dice a pair …”
A board is a flat piece of wood, plastic, or metal used to support a structure or cover a space.
the word board occurs in english on average 138.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that board can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) transport and travel;