OUGD503 - Studio Brief 2 - Hasbro Board Game (Large Collaboration) - Meanings of words Mindmap

Meanings of words Mindmap

To further explore some of the words associated with the original game of Dominoes, word meanings of that word and associated words were looked at. This allowed for concepts to around each of the words to be considered more thoroughly.

Woodpile

- a stack of wood stored for fuel

Wood

- an area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees  
- the hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a treeor shrub, used for fuel or timber.

Associated things 
- Trees - could be built 
- Actions - stack , chop etc 

Other thoughts 
- could be stacked and layered in a similar way to Upwords the game 

Tile 

- a thin square slab of glazed pottery or other material, for covering floors, walls, or other surfaces
- a thin rectangular slab of baked clay or other material, used in overlapping rows for covering roofs 
- cover with tiles 

Stones 

- remove the stone from a fruit 
- hard, solid non metaliic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially a building material 

Associated things
- steeping stones 
- pebbles 

Hub 

- around a central point 
- a central part of a wheel, rotating on or with an axle, and from which the spokes radiate 
- the effective centre of an activity, region or network

Associated words
- focus , core, heart, middle 

Divider

- separate into portions and share out among a number of people 
- find how many times a number contains another 
- a ridge or line of high ground forming the division between two valleys or river streams 
- a measuring compass especially one with a screw for making fine adjustments 
- a person or thing that divides a whole into parts
- separate or be separated into parts 
- allocate to different activities or places 

Boneyard

- a cemetery 

Bones 
- any of the pieces of hard whitish tissue making up the skeleton in humans and other vertebrates
- ones body 
- a corpse or skeleton
- remove the bones from - before cooking, serving or selling 
- one of a set of carved dice or bones used by traditional healers in divination 

Associated things 
- broken bones 

Pips 

- any of the spots on a playing card, dice or domino 
- a small hard seed in fruit 
- the stone of soft fruits such as peaches and plums

Associated things 
- fruit with pips, apple, pear, quince
- fruit with stones, plum, peach, cherry, apricot