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Reply Thu 26 Sep, 2013 03:45 am
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1. There is a board near a lecture theatre seat, what do native speakers call it? Is it a 'writing board'?

2. What do native speakers call the act of turning up the 'writing board'? I am not sure whether 'turning up the writing board' here is normal English.

Thank you. WB.
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JTT
 
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Reply Thu 26 Sep, 2013 10:35 am
@WBYeats,
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1. There is a board near a lecture theatre seat, what do native speakers call it? Is it a 'writing board'?


It looks like a whiteboard, WB, as opposed to the old fashioned/obsolete blackboard.

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2. What do native speakers call the act of turning up the 'writing board'? I am not sure whether 'turning up the writing board' here is normal English.


It depends on the thing and the process. A screen is 'rolled up', a rigid whiteboard could be retracted/put back/ [there are others that escape me now] if it was done with an electrically powered/mechanical motion.

If it is/was done by hand it would simply be 'pushed up'. Is there a space for the whiteboard to disappear into?
WBYeats
 
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Reply Thu 26 Sep, 2013 10:45 am
@JTT,
Thank you, JTT.

um...I was referring to something like this: in a lecture theatre, every seat is equipped with a board like thing vertically positioned, and after sitting down, the sitter can 'turn up' this board like thing to write things on paper on. What do native speakers call it?
dalehileman
 
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Reply Thu 26 Sep, 2013 10:47 am
@WBYeats,
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/drop%20leaf

For what it's worth WB , here's how found the term

http://onelook.com/?w=*&loc=revfp2&clue=board+hinged+chair+writing
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JTT
 
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Reply Thu 26 Sep, 2013 11:15 am
@WBYeats,
Oooooh I see, WB. I was completely out to lunch, wasn't I?

1. There is a board near a lecture theatre seat, what do native speakers call it? Is it a 'writing board'?

My fault, but this may have made your directions more explicit.

1. There is a board attached to each theater lecture seat, what do native speakers call it? Is it a 'writing board'?

I really don't know what they're called.

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JTT
 
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Reply Thu 26 Sep, 2013 11:24 am
@WBYeats,
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I am not sure whether 'turning up the writing board' here is normal English.


'turn up your drop leaf' would certainly be a possibility, as would 'bring up that thingy there'. The reverse - put back/fold down/return one's drop leaf to the storage position.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Thu 26 Sep, 2013 02:27 pm
@JTT,
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put back/fold down/return
Or maybe in this case "fold up" or "fold out"
contrex
 
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Reply Fri 27 Sep, 2013 01:25 pm
@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:

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put back/fold down/return
Or maybe in this case "fold up" or "fold out"


What's wrong with "raise" and "lower"?
JTT
 
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Reply Fri 27 Sep, 2013 02:47 pm
@contrex,
Nothing at all. Damn good suggestions, C.
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Reply Fri 27 Sep, 2013 03:37 pm
We used to call such a thing a "writing surface" as in:
"Students, please put your your writing surfaces in place, open your SAT envelopes and prepare to begin at my signal."

Also known as "desk top", 'work space', "work area" and (slang) "drop top".

Different teachers used different terms.

Joe(That was fifty years ago)Nation
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