Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "board foot" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF BOARD FOOT

board foot play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOARD FOOT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Board foot is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BOARD FOOT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Board foot

The board-foot is a specialized unit of measure for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada. It is the volume of a one-foot length of a board one foot wide and one inch thick. Board-foot can be abbreviated FBM, BDFT, or BF. Thousand board-feet can be abbreviated as MFBM, MBFT, or MBF. Similarly, million board-feet can be abbreviated as MMFBM, MMBFT, or MMBF. In Australia and New Zealand the term super foot or superficial foot was used to mean the same. One board-foot equals: ▪ 1 ft × 1 ft × 1 in ▪ 12 in × 12 in × 1 in ▪ 30.48 cm × 30.48 cm × 2.54 cm ▪ 144 in3 ▪ 1⁄12 ft3 ▪ 2360 cm3 ▪ 2.360 liters ▪ 0.002360 cubic meters or steres ▪ 1/1980 Petrograd Standard of board Board foot is the unit of measure for rough lumber or planed/surfaced lumber. An example of planed lumber is softwood 2 × 4 lumber one would buy at a large lumber retailer. The 2 × 4 is actually only 1 1⁄2 in × 3 1⁄2 in but the dimensions for the lumber when purchased wholesale could still be represented as full 2 × 4 lumber, although the "standard" can vary between vendors.

Definition of board foot in the English dictionary

The definition of board foot in the dictionary is a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOARD FOOT

board bridge
board chairman
board game
board measure
board meeting
board member
board of directors
board of education
board of examiners
board of governors
board of health
board of inquiry
board of managers
board of pardons
board of parole
board of regents
board of trade
Board of Trade Unit
board of trustees
board rule

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOARD FOOT

athlete´s foot
back foot
bird´s foot
club foot
elephant foot
foot
hand and foot
kick with the wrong foot
of foot
on foot
on the back foot
on the front foot
on the right foot
on the wrong foot
set on foot
shoot oneself in the foot
the boot is on the other foot
tread under foot
trench foot
tube foot
under foot

Synonyms and antonyms of board foot in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «board foot» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF BOARD FOOT

Find out the translation of board foot to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of board foot from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «board foot» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

板尺
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pie tablar
570 millions of speakers

English

board foot
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बोर्ड पैर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مجلس القدم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

доска для ног
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

placa de pé
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বোর্ড পাদদেশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pied-planche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kaki papan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

board foot
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ボードフィート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보드 발
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Papan kaki
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hội đồng quản trị chân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குழு கால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बोर्ड फूट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tahta ayak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

piede di bordo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyżywienie kolana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дошка для ніг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bord picior
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πόδι του πλοίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

raad voet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ombord fot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

styret foten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of board foot

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOARD FOOT»

The term «board foot» is regularly used and occupies the 94.056 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
56
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «board foot» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of board foot
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «board foot».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOARD FOOT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «board foot» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «board foot» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about board foot

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOARD FOOT»

Discover the use of board foot in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to board foot and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Comparing lumber yields from board-foot and cubically scaled ...
Historically, sawtimber has been bought and sold by the board foot, but now cubic scaling of logs and timber has begun and is scheduled to entirely replace board-foot scaling by 1985 in sales from National Forests.
Hiram Hallock, Philip H. Steele, Richard Selin, 1979
2
Board-foot and cubic-foot volume tables for Western redcedar ...
Four tables give cubic-foot and board-foot volume estimates for western redcedar given breast height diameter outside bark (DBHOB) and either total tree height or number of logs to a 6-inch top. The values for DBHOB and total tree height (or ...
Donald J. DeMars, 1996
3
International board-foot volume tables for trees in the ...
Predicted board-foot volumes for white and black spruce (table 1) were generally lower than predicted volumes in other published tables (Dippold and Farr 1971, Farr 1967, Haack 1963) for total tree height in the range of tree data for all tables  ...
Frederic Roger Larson, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Portland, Or.), 1990
4
Board-foot volumes to a 6-inch top for lodgepole pines in ...
Clifford A. Myers, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.) Table 1. --Volumes in board feet Scribner Rule, lodgepole pines in Colorado and Wyoming Board feet inside bark Merchantab le stem exc luding ...
Clifford A. Myers, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.), 1969
5
Federalism in the Forest: National Versus State Natural ...
Washington state forests totaled $19,048,783 to provide 607,300,000 board-feet, or $0.03 per board-foot. Timber costs were higher on Gif- ford Pinchot National Forest: $6,276,000 to provide 45,800,000 board-feet, or $0.14 per board-foot.
Tomas M. Koontz, 2002
6
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Woodworking
Buying by the Board/Foot Remember how hard it was to learn cups, pints, quarts, gallons, and fluid ounces when you were in grade school? Most people find the board/foot system of measuring solid wood equally problematic. Because wood ...
Reed Karen, 2002
7
School Education
The pupils look at it, handle it, and learn to know it as a board foot having this idea clearly in mind: that a piece of board one foot long, one foot wide, and one inch or less in thickness is a board foot; or, a surface 1 foot square (144 sq. in.) and 1 ...
8
Structural Design in Wood
However, the lumber industry in the United States has preferred to use the board foot. A board foot, abbreviated "fbm" for foot-board-measure, is the amount of wood present in a piece one foot long and having an end area of 12 square inches.
Judith Stalnaker, Ernest Harris, 1997
9
Selecting and Drying Wood
I use two pricing methods: a board- foot rate and an hourly rate. When all the factors affecting production are known and there are several days of work (so things have a chance to average out), I feel comfortable quoting a board-foot price ...
Fine Woodworking, 2006
10
U.S. Forest Service research note SE.
INTERNATIONAL i-INCH BOARD- FOOT VOLUMES AND BOARD- FOOT / CUBIC -FOOT RATIOS FOR SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN YELLOW- POPLAR Growth and yield data for general management purposes can best be expressed on a ...
Southeastern Forest Experiment Station (Asheville, N.C.), 1964

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOARD FOOT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term board foot is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Collins Hardwoods Looks at Kiln Innovations
BOLDesigns modified the kilns to turn 60,000 board foot kilns into 80,000 board foot kilns by raising the height of them.” BOLDesigns did all the ... «TimberLine Magazine, Jul 15»
2
All Flavours of Rickshaw Rides
He'll squeeze his vehicle through gaps meant for bikes, board foot paths without a second glance at pedestrians, go over potholes and sink his ... «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
3
How Do You Finish 50000 Year Old Kauri Wood?
Prices start at $40 a board foot for flat sawn grain, $60 for quarter sawn and up to $100 for Whitebait, a rare grain pattern that turns iridescent ... «woodworkingnetwork.com, Jun 15»
4
Dead trees dot California forests
Elliott said the local forest has a 5-7 million board foot timber sale program designed to improve forest health. “We will continue to plan and ... «Porterville Recorder, Jun 15»
5
Beyond stumpage
A board foot is the equivalent of a piece of wood 1 inch thick and 12 by 12 inches. Board foot volume is an estimate of the lumber inside a log or ... «Michigan State University Extension, Jun 15»
6
Roti: Husband makes harvest table out of barn boards
Although it was twice the price of new wood, the character and history — ingrained in each board foot — makes it well worth the cost. «Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Jun 15»
7
Payrolls Due for an Uptick in Wood Industry
And just as demand for lumber raises its price per board foot, demand for labor drives up the hourly rates - since supply is finite. But the move to ... «woodworkingnetwork.com, Jun 15»
8
Optimization in Action: State- of-the-Art Sawmill and Plantation …
Lumber that goes into the kilns weighing 5 lbs. per board foot comes out at just 1.9. The Collins project team decided to go with SII kilns after ... «TimberLine Magazine, Jun 15»
9
State Sen. Hargrove: New Carbon Pollution Accountability Act will …
$193 million to create a Working Forests and Local Mills program to pay forest owners 4.5 cents per board foot for Washington timber sent to ... «Peninsula Daily, May 15»
10
With aid, couple builds life from tragedy
The Canonigos first bought 400 fallen trees from a friend at P6 each, which they sold at P10 per board foot. They were able to earn P34,000. «Inquirer.net, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Board foot [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/board-foot>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z