whiteboard
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A blank whiteboard
See also: Whiteboard
English
Etymology
white + board, modelled on blackboard.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: wītbôd, IPA(key): /ˈwaɪtbɔːd/
- (General American) enPR: wītbôrd, IPA(key): /ˈwaɪtbɔɹd/
Noun
whiteboard (plural whiteboards)
- A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.
- 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine
- Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common space, and the walls were covered with white board, which quickly became a tangle of multicolored lines, words, circles, and squiggles.
- 2020 December 30, Richard Clinnick, “Greater Anglia strikes again...”, in Rail, page 43:
- Discussion turns to the station whiteboard, which even has its own Twitter page. It's been in place for a number of years and is located right in the middle of the concourse. It's used to provide service information, upcoming alterations and event advice. There is also a 'Chuckle of the Day'.
- 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine
- (by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → German: Whiteboard
- → Swedish: whiteboard
Translations
large vertical writing area
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collaborative tool
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See also
Verb
whiteboard (third-person singular simple present whiteboards, present participle whiteboarding, simple past and past participle whiteboarded)
- To use a whiteboard, to write on a writeboard
References
- “whiteboard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
Etymology
From English whiteboard.
Pronunciation
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Noun
whiteboard n (plural whiteboards, diminutive whiteboardje n)
- whiteboard
- Synonym: witbord
Swedish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English whiteboard. According to SAOB attested since 1986.
Noun
whiteboard c
- whiteboard
- Synonym: whiteboardtavla (“whiteboard board”)
- Hypernym: skrivtavla (“writing board”)
Declension
| Declension of whiteboard | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | whiteboard | whiteboarden | whiteboardar | whiteboardarna |
| Genitive | whiteboards | whiteboardens | whiteboardars | whiteboardarnas |
Coordinate terms
- griffeltavla (“slate”)
- svart tavla (“blackboard”)
Derived terms
- whiteboardpenna (“whiteboard marker”)