Billboardとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

bill +‎ board

名詞

billboard (複数形 billboards)

1. A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
   • 1932, William Faulkner, Light in August, New York: Modern Library, 1950, Chapter 5, p. 91,^[2]

     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, Penguin, 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111,^[3]

     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,^[4]

     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,^[5]

     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,^[6]

     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.^[1]
4. (computer graphics) A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is looked at from.

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• broadbill