billboard
SubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈbɪlˌboɹd//
A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
Substantiv
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A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
He could see it like a printed sentence, fullborn and already dead God loves me too like the faded and weathered letters on last year's billboard God loves me too
The land refuses to change. The more he drives the more the region resembles the country around Mt. Judge. The same scruff on the embankments, the same weathered billboards for the same products you wondered anybody would ever want to buy.
All America was on the verge of spring and the countryside was coming to glory, what we could see of the countryside through the smoke and billboards.
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
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veraltendA flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]
Toward the end of April, the billboards, which I watched anxiously in those days, bloomed out one morning with gleaming white posters on which two names were impressively printed in blue Gothic letters: the name of an actress of whom I had often heard, and the name “Camille.”
Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.
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A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore-channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.
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An opening or closing portion of a program, often including credits and sponsors' names.
The closing billboard features Como as the spokesman.
[…] the opening billboard identifying Chase as the sponsor […]
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A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is viewed from.
Herkunft
From bill + board.
Verb
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To advertise on a billboard.
The upcoming concert was billboarded all over the city.
Formen
- Plural
- billboards
- Präteritum
- billboarded
- Partizip II
- billboarded
- Partizip I
- billboarding
- 3. Person Singular
- billboards
billboard · A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
Billboard · The music charts published by Billboard magazine.Billie · A male or female given name from the Germanic languages…billing · Amounts billed.