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Definition
Whiteboard.
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How it's used
Modern classrooms and offices have almost entirely replaced traditional blackboards with whiteboards. The term is often used metaphorically in business contexts to refer to brainstorming sessions or starting a project from scratch, similar to the English phrase clean slate.
Measure word
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The teacher wrote a lot of words on the whiteboard.
Could you help me wipe the whiteboard clean?
Related words
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with the slang term 白板 used in Mahjong, which refers to the blank tile.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
