billboard
see also: Billboard
Noun
Billboard
Proper noun
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see also: Billboard
Noun
billboard (plural billboards)
- A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
- 1932, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Light in August, [New York, N.Y.]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, OCLC 644581344 ↗; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, OCLC 154633965 ↗, page 98 ↗:
- 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
- 1971, Don DeLillo, Americana (novel), Penguin, 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111,
- 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.
- 1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects” in On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 71,
- Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
- (dated) A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
- 1902, “The Casual Club,” The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902,
- When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]
- 1918, Willia Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 308,
- 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.”
- 1902, “The Casual Club,” The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902,
- (nautical) 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.
- (computer graphics) A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is looked at from.
- French: panneau d'affichage
- German: Billboard, Plakat
- Italian: cartellone
- Portuguese: outdoor
- Russian: афи́ша
- Spanish: cartelera
Billboard
Proper noun
- The music charts published by Billboard magazine.
- 2012. [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22charted$20on$20billboard%22/alt.emusic/vPJThy35AC4/bYADQIWhRWAJ "Yogi Chill From Soulfood Music And DJ Free On Sale Digitally"]. Alt.emusic.
- He has charted on Billboard and several international DJ and Dance charts.
- 2009. [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22charted$20on$20billboard%22/alt.music.big-band/zsx7OPZa8tY/VGebyF1W3EwJ "Looking For Benny Goodman Quartet - St. Louis Blues 1936"]. alt.music.big-band.
- This song was originally on Victor 25411 and charted on Billboard at #20 on 10/24/36.
- 2000. [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22charted$20on$20billboard%22/rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s/7z14Z9wvJiE/VGQuJ-PYMp4J "Steve Monahan........trivia buffs"]. rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s.
- No other Monahan ever charted on Billboard and nothing by anyone named Monahan ever charted at CHUM, the leading Top 40 station in Toronto
- 2012. [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22charted$20on$20billboard%22/alt.emusic/vPJThy35AC4/bYADQIWhRWAJ "Yogi Chill From Soulfood Music And DJ Free On Sale Digitally"]. Alt.emusic.
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