onboard
UK/ɒnˈbɔːd/
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Australia/ɔnˈboːd/
onboard adjective: carried or used on or in a vehicle or vessel.
Adjective
onboard (not comparable)
- Carried or used on or in a vehicle or vessel.
- “We are aware that there has been an unauthorized release of video footage from flight deck cameras onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) of the F-35C Lightning II crash that occurred Jan. 24, in the South China Sea. There is an ongoing investigation into both the crash and the unauthorized release of...2022 February 7, Brad Lendon, Ivan Watson, “Newly leaked video shows F-35 crashing in flames on aircraft carrier”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2022
- Swinging onto the Treherbert branch under the new OLE, the train's onboard Passenger Information Screens announce we have entered a 'no alcohol' zone. That doesn't seem to help, as some of the passengers who joined us earlier seem 'well oiled' already.2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48
- Being a part of, being included in, participating in.
- When it comes to security, everybody seems to be as onboard as I am.
- James is onboard as a production manager.
Adverb
onboard (not comparable)
Verb
onboard (third-person singular simple present onboards, present participle onboarding, simple past and past participle onboarded)
- To become a part of a group; (transitive) to incorporate (someone) into a group.
- It's easiest to onboard and offboard employees if you have a checklist to follow.2022, Audrey O'Shea, Jeff T. Parker, CompTIA A+ Complete Practice Tests […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
- To begin to use a product or service; to take (someone) on as a new customer of a product or service.
Noun
onboard (plural onboards)
- A feed, video, image, etc., taken of a vehicle's situation, from a position that is on the vehicle.
onboard meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
onboard in Urdu
- سوار
onboard in Telugu
- ఆన్బోర్డ్
onboard in Malayalam
- ഓൺബോർഡ്
onboard in Kannada
- ಆನ್ಬೋರ್ಡ್
More languagesFewer languages
- onboard in Gujarati
- ઓનબોર્ડ
- onboard in Odia
- ଅନ୍ବୋର୍ଡ଼
Examples of onboard in a sentence
- Onboard Doppler radar can warn pilots about wet microbursts by detecting the associated column of rapidly-descending rain.
- Nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers are powered by onboard nuclear reactors.
- Pretty soon just about everyone onboard was leaning over the rail chundering like sick dogs.
Antonyms of onboard
Forms of onboard
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | on-board |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | onboards |
| present participle | onboarding |
| past participle | onboarded |
| past | onboarded |
| Noun | |
| plural | onboards |
Origin of onboard
on + board, from on board (“phrase”), equivalent to on- + board.
Words that rhyme with onboard
40 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- umbilical cord
- afford
- ord
- reward
- sward
- toward
- hoard
- untoward
- -lord
- abhorred
- bored
- destination board
- disaccord
- greatsword
- horde
- smorgasbord
- unoared
- adored
- bell chord
- beward
- chored
- concord
- deboard
- discord
- fjord
- gord
- gored
- guide board
- hoared
- ignored
- m'lord
- milord
- moored
- oared
- of one's own accord
- outward
- restored
- secured
- sord
- whored
Questions about onboard
- What does onboard mean?
- Onboard means carried or used on or in a vehicle or vessel.
- What is onboard in Urdu?
- Onboard in Urdu is سوار. See Onboard meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is onboard?
- Onboard can be an adjective, an adverb, a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce onboard?
- Onboard is pronounced /ɒnˈbɔːd/ (UK).
Words near onboard in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: onboard (page history and authors); onboard (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); onboard (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); onboard (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); onboard (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); onboard (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); onboard (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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