Sideboard - Wiktionary

See also: Sideboard

English

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Etymology

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From side +‎ board.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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English Wikipedia has articles on:sideboard and sideboard (cards)Wikipedia Wikipedia

sideboard (plural sideboards)

  1. (furniture) A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food. Synonyms: buffet, (obsolete) cupboard
  2. A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something.
    • 2000, William Gay, Provinces of Night, page 196:Fleming watched the sideboarded truck diminish down the rolling hillside, the stackers atop the hay clutching the sideboards and swaying and bouncing toward the barn.
  3. (collectible, card games) A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
    • 1995, Larry W. Smith, Learn Magic Cards, →ISBN, page 80:Cards can only be exchanged between the playing deck and the sideboard on a one-to-one basis between duels or matches, and any number of cards, up to fifteen, can be exchanged at once.
    • 1995, George Baxter, Larry W. Smith, Mastering magic cards, →ISBN:Many of your best chances to overcome opposing decks lie in the development of a strong sideboard.
    • 2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, →ISBN, page 61:If you plan on playing in tournaments, you'll want to construct a sideboard for your deck.
    • 2010, Kelly Nicole Czarnecki, Gaming in Libraries, →ISBN, page 54:They can have a 15-card sideboard or no sideboard. The sideboard can be used to replace cards in the deck after each game.
  4. (fishing) A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.
    • 2012, Federal Register - Volume 77, Issue 50, page 15226:Conversely, in fisheries with increasing sideboards, economic benefit could be denied to the sideboarded sectors.

Translations

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  • Bulgarian: бюфет m (bjufet)
  • Catalan: bufet (ca) m
  • Czech: příborník (cs) m, kredenc (cs) f
  • Finnish: senkki (fi)
  • French: buffet (fr) m
  • German: Anrichte (de) f, Sideboard (de) n, Büfett (de) n
  • Greek: σκευοθήκη (el) f (skevothíki)
  • Irish: cornchlár m
  • Italian: credenza (it) f
  • Kazakh: асадал (asadal)
  • Latin: abacus (la) m
  • Middle English: dressour
  • Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)
  • Persian: بوفه (fa) (bufe)
  • Polish: kredens (pl) m
  • Russian: серва́нт (ru) m (servánt), буфе́т (ru) m (bufét)
  • Spanish: aparador (es)
  • Swedish: sideboard (sv) n, skänk (sv) c, byffé (sv) c
a board that forms part of the side of something
  • Polish: boczna deska f
  • Spanish: please add this translation if you can
sideburns see sideburns

Verb

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sideboard (third-person singular simple present sideboards, present participle sideboarding, simple past and past participle sideboarded)

  1. (collectible, card games) To include (a card) in one's sideboard.
    • 1995, Charles Wolfe, Deep Magic:Hopefully you now have a strong grasp on how to sideboard effectively.
    • 1996, George Baxter, Tables of Magic, page 43:This will cause an opponent to suffer from a number of his newly sideboarded cards, now useless to him.
    • 2002, Steve Frohnhoefer, Michael Searle, Magic: The Gathering Online : Prima's Official Strategy Guide:Frantic Purification can be sideboarded to destroy an enchantment, but it shouldn't be drafted unless you have no choice.
  2. To add sideboards to.
    • 1917, The Lumber Manufacturer and Dealer - Volume 60, page 50:Wood used at the Natioual Guard camps will include flooring for tents. Tents will also be sideboarded for a distance of about three feet up from the ground.
    • 1970, Jagman Singh, On and with the earth, page 273:The additional load capacity made available by sideboarding is gained by making the scraper bowl taller without increasing the bowl width.
    • 2004, The North Dakota Quarterly - Volume 71, Issues 1-2, page 67:The Missouri, that grand, sprawling, unpredictable serpent has been sideboarded and tamed, its occasional venom squeezed for the foreseeable future from its muddy fangs.

See also

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  • buffet
  • china cabinet
  • credenza
  • pie safe

Anagrams

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  • broadside

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:sideboardWikipedia sv
ett sideboard

Etymology

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Borrowed from English sideboard. First attested in 1915.

Noun

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sideboard n

  1. (furniture) a sideboard

Usage notes

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Especially of low, long sideboards. Compare skänk.

Declension

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nominative genitive
singular indefinite sideboard sideboards
definite sideboardet sideboardets
plural indefinite sideboard sideboards
definite sideboarden sideboardens

See also

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  • byffé (buffet (sideboard))
  • kredensbord (credence table; credenza)
  • skänk

References

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  • sideboard in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • sideboard in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • sideboard in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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