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Board game mechanics
Board game mechanics are the recurring structural devices that shape what players do and how they win, including worker placement, area control, engine building, and card drafting.
Board of Control
The Board of Control, formally the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, was the British body created in 1784 to oversee the East India Company's rule in India.
Board of Control for Cricket in India
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), founded December 1928, India's private national cricket governing body; runs the Indian teams, Ranji Trophy, and IPL; HQ Mumbai; led by President Mithun Manhas.
Board of directors
Board of directors: the elected governing body that directs and oversees a corporation while delegating daily management to the CEO. Covers fiduciary duties of care and loyalty, the business judgment rule, board independence and committee structures, and the institution's medieval merchant-guild origins.
Board of Engineers Malaysia
The Board of Engineers Malaysia (Malay: Lembaga Jurutera Malaysia) is a statutory agency under the Ministry of Works, established under the Registration of Engineers Act 1967 to register engineers.
Board of Peace
Board of Peace (BoP): international organization created under Trump's 20-point Gaza plan, chartered at Davos January 2026, chaired by Trump, endorsed by UNSC Resolution 2803, with 27 members, $17 billion pledged, and an International Stabilization Force in Gaza.
Board of Rites (Silla)
The Board of Rites (예부, 禮部) was a central government office of Silla in charge of education, diplomacy, and ritual, established in 586 under King Jinpyeong.
Boarded Hall Oil Field
Boarded Hall Oil Field is a small conventional onshore oil field in southern Barbados, discovered in 1990 and wholly owned and operated by the state company BNOCL.
Boarders
Boarders is a BBC Three British teen comedy-drama (2024–2026) created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor about five Black inner-city London teens on scholarships to elite boarding school St Gilbert's; three seasons, streamed in the US on Tubi.
Boarding house
A boarding house, also known as a lodging house, is a private house where the proprietor provides meals and lodging for paying guests, common in 19th-century cities.
Boarding pass
A boarding pass, also called a boarding card, is the printed or electronic document an airline issues at check-in, authorizing access to security and the aircraft for a specific flight.
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school whose students live on campus during the term, with meals, study time, rules, and supervision provided by residential staff.
Boarding School Juliet (寄宿学校のジュリエット)
Boarding School Juliet (寄宿学校のジュリエット) is Yōsuke Kaneda's school romcom manga, 2015–2019, 16 volumes, about Romio Inuzuka and rival Juliet Persia's secret romance at Dahlia Academy; adapted into a 12-episode 2018 anime by Liden Films.
Boarding schools in Africa
Boarding schools in Africa are a mainstream and often the most prestigious strand of secondary education in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Zimbabwe, with roots in colonial mission schools.
Boarding schools in the Caribbean and Pacific
Boarding schools in the Caribbean and Pacific are residential secondary schools rooted in colonial traditions, serving elite heritage in the Caribbean and geographic access in the Pacific.
Boardmasters
Boardmasters is a combined surfing competition and music festival held each August in Newquay, Cornwall, England, with music at Watergate Bay and surfing at Fistral Beach.
Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada, Scottish electronic duo of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin on Warp Records, known for Music Has the Right to Children, Geogaddi, and the 2026 comeback album Inferno.
Boardwalk
A boardwalk is a walkway made of wooden boards, usually built along a beach or shore, ranging from simple paths over sand to commercial promenades like Atlantic City's.
Boardwalk (yacht)
Boardwalk is a 117-meter motor superyacht built by German shipyard Lürssen, delivered in May 2026 to American businessman Tilman Fertitta, owner of Landry's and the Houston Rockets.
Boardwalk Empire
Boardwalk Empire: HBO crime drama (2010–2014, five seasons, 56 episodes) created by Terence Winter, starring Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson, based on Nelson Johnson's Atlantic City book, with a Martin Scorsese-directed pilot and 20 Emmys.
Boardwalk Pipeline Partners
Boardwalk Pipeline Partners is a Delaware limited partnership, formed in 2005 by Loews Corporation, that owns and operates natural gas and NGL pipelines and storage.
Boat
A boat is a watercraft smaller than a ship that carries people or goods across water, classically an open craft propelled by oars or sails, and among humanity's oldest technologies.
Boat (2024 film)
Boat is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language survival drama directed by Chimbu Deven, starring Yogi Babu as a fisherman among ten strangers adrift at sea.
Boat building
Boat building, also known as boat construction, is the craft and industry of constructing hulls and fittings of small watercraft, in wood historically and in fiberglass and metal today.
Boat conformation
The boat conformation of cyclohexane is a puckered shape with two opposite carbons lifted above the plane of the other four, strained by eclipsed bonds and close flagpole hydrogens.
boAt Lifestyle
boAt Lifestyle, legally Imagine Marketing Ltd, is an Indian consumer-electronics company founded in 2016 by Aman Gupta and Sameer Mehta, one of India's largest sellers of earbuds and headphones.
Boat lift
A boat lift raises or lowers a boat between two bodies of water at different levels in a water-filled caisson, replacing flights of locks and conserving water.
Boat lift engineering and operation
A boat lift is a canal structure that carries a boat between water levels in a water-filled caisson, using almost no water and beating locks above 40 meters.
Boat Mooring at Guazhou
Boat Mooring at Guazhou (泊船瓜洲) is a quatrain by Song statesman and poet Wang Anshi, written while his boat lay moored at Guazhou on the Yangtze.
Boat People (望郷 ボートピープル)
Boat People is a 1982 Hong Kong political drama directed by Ann Hui, starring George Lam as a photojournalist who uncovers hardship in postwar Vietnam.