#boarding
- Ship boarding — An archaic, early, or regional form used in 19th-century legal-maritime language to denote the act of boarding or collision (the intentional or accidental crashing of two vessels); an obsolete term also used to describe the tax, process, or legal dispute resulting from a naval collision in territorial waters.
- Boarding — An attack executed at sea by forcing a vessel alongside an enemy ship and securing it to allow the crew to board and capture it through hand-to-hand combat; a mechanical collision, whether intentional or accidental, between two moving vessels on a navigable waterway; (figurative, modern sense) a sudden, direct, or bold approach toward a person in order to secure a favor, information, or an immediate interaction.
- Approacher — A person who approaches someone, easily initiating a dialogue, questioning, or verbal confrontation; (historical maritime sense) a military vessel or privateer executing a boarding maneuver on an enemy craft; (adjectival) showing a strong tendency or specific ability to approach subjects, problems, or people.
- All-inclusive — A tourism term borrowed from English, describing a hospitality boarding plan where the prepaid price covers all essential services of the stay: the accommodation itself, the three main meals, intermediate snacks, local drinks (alcoholic and soft), as well as access to certain relaxation or entertainment facilities of the hotel, without extra costs on site.
- Boarding school — An institution, boarding school, or educational house (historically associated mostly with theological seminaries or confessional schools) where students (alumni) lived and were maintained for free or via scholarships; by extension, the quality or status of being an alumnus.
- Embarkation — The act of embarking, boarding, or shipping and its result; a logistical, administrative, or military operation through which passengers, troops, or cargo are taken onto a ship, boat, or aircraft. In international shipping, it is a critical procedural stage marked by customs checks.
- Roof sheathing — A layer of wooden boards placed tightly and fixed onto the rafters of a roof, serving to form a continuous, rigid, and supportive surface for the subsequent mounting of the protective roof covering (tiles, metal sheets, shingles) and insulation layers.
- To sheathe a roof — To install roof sheathing onto a roof framework; to cover or plank the structural rafters with a continuous layer of tightly joined wooden boards or engineered panels, establishing the rigid support needed for the final roofing material and insulation layers.
- Roof sheathing process — The act of installing roof sheathing and its result; the technical operation of mounting boards or panels onto roof rafters to create a continuous flat surface; the actual execution of the roof boarding within carpentry works.
- Sheathed — Having undergone the process of roof sheathing; a roof, framework, or rafter system onto which a continuous layer of wooden boards or panels (sarking) has been mounted to serve as a rigid support for the protective covering; in a technical sense, it describes a structure ready for waterproofing application.
- Roof sheathing — A layer of wooden boards placed tightly and fixed onto the rafters of a roof, serving to form a continuous, rigid, and supportive surface for the subsequent mounting of the protective roof covering (tiles, metal sheets, shingles) and insulation layers.