Bored
In conventional usage, boredom is an emotional and occasionally psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is not interested in his or her surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious. It is also understood by scholars as a modern phenomenon which has a cultural dimension. “There is no universally accepted definition of boredom. But whatever it is, researchers argue, it is not simply another name for depression or apathy. It seems to be a specific mental state that people find unpleasant—a lack of stimulation that leaves them craving relief, with a host of behavioural, medical and social consequences.” According to BBC News, boredom “…can be a dangerous and disruptive state of mind that damages your health”; yet research “…suggest[s] that without boredom we couldn’t achieve our creative feats.”In Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity, Elizabeth Goodstein traces the modern discourse on boredom through literary, philosophical, and sociological texts to find that as “a discursively articulated phenomenon…boredom is at once objective and subjective, emotion and intellectualization — not just a response to the modern world but also a historically constituted strategy for coping with its discontents.” In both conceptions, boredom has to do fundamentally with an experience of time and problems of meaning.
Board (noun)
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
Board (noun)
A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
Board (noun)
A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
“Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.”
Board (noun)
Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
Board (noun)
A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
“We have to wait to hear back from the board.”
Board (noun)
Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
“Room and board”
Board (noun)
The side of a ship.
Board (noun)
The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
Board (noun)
The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
Board (noun)
A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
Board (noun)
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
“to bind a book in boards”
Board (noun)
A level or stage having a particular layout.
Board (noun)
A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards. thumb|Board (duplicate bridge)
Board (noun)
A rebound.
Board (verb)
To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
“It is time to board the aircraft.”
Board (verb)
To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
“to board one’s horse at a livery stable”
Board (verb)
To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
Board (verb)
To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
Board (verb)
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
Board (verb)
To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
Board (verb)
To cover with boards or boarding.
“to board a house”
Board (verb)
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
Board (verb)
To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
Bored (adjective)
suffering from boredom; to have nothing to do
Bored (adjective)
uninterested, without attention
“The piano teacher’s bored look indicated he wasn’t paying much attention to his pupil’s lackluster rendition of Mozart’s Requiem”
Bored (adjective)
perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)