whiteboard

See also: Whiteboard

English

Etymology

From white +‎ board, modelled on blackboard.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: wītbôd, IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪtbɔːd/
• (General American) enPR: wītbôrd, IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪtbɔɹd/

Noun

A blank whiteboard

whiteboard (plural whiteboards)

1. A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.
   • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine

     Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common space, and the walls were covered with white board, which quickly became a tangle of multicolored lines, words, circles, and squiggles.

   • 2020 December 30, Richard Clinnick, “Greater Anglia strikes again...”, in Rail, page 43:

     Discussion turns to the station whiteboard, which even has its own Twitter page. It's been in place for a number of years and is located right in the middle of the concourse. It's used to provide service information, upcoming alterations and event advice. There is also a 'Chuckle of the Day'.

2. (by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.

Derived terms

• interactive whiteboard
• whiteboard marker
• whiteboard pen

 

Descendants

• → German: Whiteboard
• → Swedish: whiteboard

Translations

large vertical writing area

• Basque: arbel zuri
• Belarusian: бе́лая до́шка f (bjélaja dóška), до́шка (dóška) (any colour)
• Bulgarian: бя́ла дъска́ f (bjála dǎská)
• Catalan: pissarra blanca f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白板 (zh) (báibǎn)

• Cornish: bord gwynn m
• Czech: (any colour) tabule (cs) f, bílá tabule f
• Danish: whiteboard
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: valkotaulu
• French: (any colour) tableau (fr) m, tableau blanc (fr) m
• German: Tafel (de) f, Weißwandtafel f, Whiteboard (de) n
• Greek: λευκοπίνακας (el) m (lefkopínakas)
• Ingrian: doska
• Irish: clár bán m
• Italian: lavagna (it) f, lavagna bianca f
• Japanese: 白板 (はくばん, hakuban), ホワイトボード (howaitobōdo)
• Khmer: ក្តារខៀន​ស (ktaakhiən-sɑɑ)
• Korean: 화이트보드 (hwaiteubodeu), 백판(白板) (baekpan)
• Latvian: tāfele (lv) f (any color)
• Lithuanian: balta lenta f, baltoji lenta f
• Macedonian: бела табла f (bela tabla)
• Malay: papan putih (ms)
• Maori: papamā
• Norman: blianche plianche f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: whiteboard n, tusjtavle m or f

• Persian: تخته وایت برد (taxte vâitbord)
• Polish: biała tablica f
• Portuguese: quadro branco m
• Quechua: pirqa qillqana
• Romanian: tablă (ro) f
• Russian: (any colour) доска́ (ru) f (doská), бе́лая доска́ f (bélaja doská)
• Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-geal m
• Slovak: biela tabuľa f
• Spanish: (any colour) pizarra (es) f, pizarra blanca f
• Swahili: ubao mweupe
• Swedish: vit tavla c, skrivtavla c, whiteboard (sv) c
• Tajik: тахтаи сафед (taxta-yi safed)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: beyaz tahta
• Ukrainian: бі́ла до́шка f (bíla dóška), до́шка (uk) f (dóška) (any colour)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

collaborative tool

• Lithuanian: interaktyvi lenta, interaktyvioji lenta

See also

• blackboard
• chalkboard
• imageboard

Verb

whiteboard (third-person singular simple present whiteboards, present participle whiteboarding, simple past and past participle whiteboarded)

1. To use a whiteboard, to write on a writeboard

References

• “whiteboard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Dutch

Etymology

From English whiteboard.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

whiteboard n (plural whiteboards, diminutive whiteboardje n)

1. whiteboard

   Synonym: witbord

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English whiteboard. According to SAOB attested since 1986.

Noun

whiteboard c

1. whiteboard

   Synonym: whiteboardtavla (“whiteboard board”)

   Hypernym: skrivtavla (“writing board”)

Declension

Declension of whiteboard

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	whiteboard	whiteboards
	definite	whiteboarden	whiteboardens
plural	indefinite	whiteboardar	whiteboardars
	definite	whiteboardarna	whiteboardarnas

Coordinate terms

• griffeltavla (“slate”)
• svart tavla (“blackboard”)

Derived terms

• whiteboardpenna (“whiteboard marker”)

References

• whiteboard in Svensk ordbok (SO)