different between millboard vs billboard

English

Etymology

mill +? board

Noun

millboard (countable and uncountable, plural millboards)

1. A stiff paperboard or pasteboard used as book covers.

English

Etymology

From bill +? board.

Noun

billboard (plural billboards)

1. A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
   • 1971, Don DeLillo, Americana, Penguin, 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

2. (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,^[4]

     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,^[5]

     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.”

3. (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.
4. (computer graphics) A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is looked at from.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• billboard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• billboard (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• broadbill

Polish

Etymology

From English billboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?il.b?rt/

Noun

billboard m inan

1. billboard (large advertisement along side of highway)

Declension

Further reading

• billboard in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• billboard in Polish dictionaries at PWN