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enter on the boards

enter on the boards verb: to inscribe the name of (a student) on a board or tablet in a college.

Verb

enter on the boards (third-person singular simple present enters on the boards, present participle entering on the boards, simple past and past participle entered on the boards)

  1. (UK, archaic, idiomatic, transitive, Cambridge University) To inscribe the name of (a student) on a board or tablet in a college.
    • having been entered on the boards of Trinity college1834, author not stated, possibly Alfred, Lord Tennyson???, Preface to Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam

Forms of enter on the boards

third-person singular presententers on the boards
present participleentering on the boards
past participleentered on the boards
pastentered on the boards

Questions about enter on the boards

What does enter on the boards mean?
Enter on the boards means to inscribe the name of (a student) on a board or tablet in a college.
What part of speech is enter on the boards?
Enter on the boards is a verb.
What is the past tense of enter on the boards?
The past tense of enter on the boards is entered on the boards.

Words near enter on the boards in the dictionary

  1. enter
  2. enter into
  3. enter into the equation
  4. enter key
  5. enter keys
  6. enter on the boards
  7. enter the chat
  8. enter the equation
  9. enter the lists
  10. enter the picture
  11. enter the scene

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