starboard
noun
- right side of a vessel in direction of travel
verb
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L333123 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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L340744 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈstɑː.bəd/ / /ˈstɑɹ.bɚd/ / /ˈstaː.bəd/
noun
Etymology: From star + board. The earliest known use was in 2013 on Meta Stack Exchange.
- A list that shows messages starred in a community space.
“The unlimited starring power is an arguably useful feature because it enables management of the starboard with notifications and the like, but I see nothing in the informal job description of a room owner that says they have any more right to spam the room than I do.”
“TFHRC#1 indicates a backquote in a chat message using fixed-width formatting, which is (correctly) output literally. FHRC#2 shows that the same backquote is misinterpreted by the sidebar starboard as a formatting character, wrecking the intended look and feel even more.”
- A system that enables such a list.
“In case you don't know what a starboard is, it's basically a system used on Discord that whenever you react with a star emoji, the message is showcased inside of a #starboard channel.”
“We used to do that until someone suggested adding a bot that had a starboard.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English sterbord, stere-bourd, stere-burd, from Old English stēorbord, from Proto-West Germanic *steurubord, equivalent to steer + board (“side (of a ship)”), referring to ancient ships with the steering oar set to the right (to accommodate right-handed crew). Ships had to dock on their left (port) side because the steering oar on the right would get in the way, which is how the left became known as the port side.
- To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.
“to starboard the helm”