Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A molding that conceals the joint between an interior wall and the floor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A line of boarding around the interior walls of a room, next to the floor.
- noun In photography, the foundation of the camera, which carries the lens, front, bellows, and back.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called
washboard (in England),mopboard , andscrubboard .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A panel or molding between the floor and the interior wall of a structure
- noun US A similar panel at the base of a piece of furniture or equipment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fortunately, the baseboard is cut into suitable lengths, so we do not need to use the handsaw again and once more risk attracting attention.
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There, at the bottom of the baseboard, is the little slit through which the mouse, flattening its body in that impossible way that is the special talent of mice, disappeared.
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Fortunately, the baseboard is cut into suitable lengths, so we do not need to use the handsaw again and once more risk attracting attention.
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There, at the bottom of the baseboard, is the little slit through which the mouse, flattening its body in that impossible way that is the special talent of mice, disappeared.
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Toot pulls the bed away from the wall and there in a three-foot high band above the baseboard is the fully painted Garden of Eden.
Sufficient Grace Darnell Arnoult 2006
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Drawn along the bottom of the wall behind the bed just above the baseboard is the Garden of Eden.
Sufficient Grace Darnell Arnoult 2006
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Toot pulls the bed away from the wall and there in a three-foot high band above the baseboard is the fully painted Garden of Eden.
Sufficient Grace Darnell Arnoult 2006
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Drawn along the bottom of the wall behind the bed just above the baseboard is the Garden of Eden.
Sufficient Grace Darnell Arnoult 2006
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IPMI consists of a main controller called the baseboard management controller and other management controllers distributed among different system modules that are referred to as satellite controllers.
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You can do this by covering them with matching cable covers or by hiding them under the baseboard.
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