| 释义 |
bill-board, billboard orig. U.S.|ˈbɪlbɔəd|
[f. bill n. 8 + board n. 2 b.]
1. A board to which notices, posters, advertisements, etc., are affixed; a notice-board or hoarding.
1851W. K. Northall Bef. & Behind Curtain 15 The bill-boards of the Park..still continued to style the Park ‘The Theatre’. a1877in Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 4) 44 People who fail to edit a bill-board are firmly convinced that they could edit a newspaper. 1950Manch. Guardian Weekly 19 Jan. 10/3 Billboards bearing the strange advice: ‘Go East, Young Man, Go East!’ 1950O. Nash Fam. Reunion 131, I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. 1954N. Coward Future Indef. iv. 247 Outside a canteen was a billboard announcing ‘To-Nite Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour’.
b. attrib.; bill-board pass, a free theatre ticket issued to tradespeople who allow advertisements to be displayed on their premises.
1890‘Biff’ Hall Turnover Club 100 The holder of a bill⁓board pass addressed the Count Bozenta as ‘Mr. Modjeska’. 1902W. N. Harben Abner Daniel 58 Jack Ass in bill-board letters would come nearer to it than anything that occurs to me now. 1963New Yorker 1 June 24/1 Exquisitely faithful duplications of bill-board lettering. 1967Listener 3 Aug. 156/2 Garish and absurd as a billboard likeness.
2. An aerial array resembling a bill-board in appearance, consisting of a number of dipoles mounted in front of a large vertical metal reflector. Freq. attrib.
1950J. D. Kraus Antennas iv. 118 A ‘billboard’ type of array..having many dipole antennas carrying equal currents. Ibid. xii. 327 (caption) Array of ½-wavelength elements with flat sheet reflector (billboard or mattress antenna). 1963Life 1 Mar. 20/1 Dye Main's 60-foot-high radio antennas—the technicians call them ‘billboards’—make sure these warning signals get through. 1966Electronics 17 Oct. 138/3 The tropo routes use 60-foot billboard antennas. At some of the stations in Turkey, the tropo paths require 120-foot billboards. |