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Definition: Billboard |
BillboardNoun1. Large outdoor signboard. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "billboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | A poster panel in outdoor advertising. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A sloping support or platform located on the forecastle on which a stocked anchor is stowed and secured when at sea. It usually extends a little over the side so as to throw the anchor clear when let go. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Billboard can refer to:
- Billboard magazine
- Billboard (advertising)
- Billboard antenna
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Billboard."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A billboard is a large panel advertisement seen in public places, such as alongside highways or on the sides of buildings.See also: Billboard Liberation, Burma-Shave
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Billboard (advertising)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Billboard is an American magazine devoted to the music industry.On January 4, 1936 Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade and on July 20, 1940 Billboard published its first "Music Popularity Chart."
Today, it maintains several internationally for pop charts that track the most popular songs in various categories on a weekly basis. Its "Hot 100" survey ranks the top 100 pop songs and is frequently used as the standard measure for ranking singles in the United States. The Hot 100 chart is compiled by tracking single sales as well as songs' radio airplay on a variety of different station formats, including Urban, Modern Rock, Country, Adult Contemporary, Top 40, Rhythmic, and Adult Top 40. Currently, because few musicians release singles in America anymore, Billboard weights a song's radio play as 80 percent and its single sales as 20 percent to calculate the weekly Hot 100 rankings.
Since late 1998, it has been possible for a song to chart on the Hot 100 based only on airplay points. Prior to this change, a song had to have had a single available for purchase in order to rank on the Hot 100. To date, several songs that have had no buyable single have managed to achieve such massive radio airplay that they were able to make it into the number one spot anyway. The first instance of this was Aaliyah's "Try Again" from Romeo Must Die, which was a giant pop, rhythmic, and urban radio hit.
Some other notable Billboard records include Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's 1995 song "One Sweet Day," which is the longest-lasting number one on the Hot 100 (16 weeks) and consequently the most popular song, in general, in American history.
R&B group, The Isley Brothers hold a record for being the only act to have had Top 40 hits on the Hot 100 in six consecutive decades: the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
Madonna, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles hold a majority of the other important Billboard records. For example, the three acts are the three with the most top five, top ten, and top twenty Hot 100 songs in Billboard history.
For many years, the weekly syndicated radio program "American Top 40", hosted by Casey Kasem, played the top 40 songs on that Billboard chart in reverse order. October 3, 2003 marked the first time since its inception that the Billboard Top 10 artists were exclusively black individuals or groups with a majority of black members.
External link
- Billboard web site
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Billboard magazine."
Synonym: BillboardSynonym: hoarding (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Billboard |
| Specialty definitions using "billboard": balancing band, balancing clamp ♦ director, advertising ♦ gravity band ♦ home page ♦ LEASING AGENT, OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ♦ MANAGER, ADVERTISING ♦ sales promotion director. (references) |
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Screenplays | New billboard day (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) He's so shy. Next month he's doing the underwear billboard in Times Square (Ransom; writing credit: Cyril Hume; Richard Maibaum) in front of the house? The billboard on Route 41 (Family Ties; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Raimundo Lopes) | |
Lyrics | I got em lookin at the billboard charts confused (Young'n; performing artist: Fabolous) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Billboard Frolics (1935) 2000 Billboard Music Awards (2000) Billboard (1989) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Billboard advertising the United States Atlantic Tuna Tournament. Credit: Fisheries. |  | USS Honolulu (CL-48) in Tulagi Harbor, Solomon Islands, for temporary repair of damage received when she was torpedoed in the bow during the Battle of Kolombangara. USS Vireo (AT-144) is assisting the damaged cruiser. Note billboard on the hillside beyond Honolulu's collapsed bow. See Photo # 80-G-259446 (cropped) for a close-up view of this sign. Credit: NAVY. |
 | View of the ship's bow decoration, taken while the battleship was in drydock at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, 6 January 1909. Note giltwork on the eagle figurehead and associated decorations, stockless anchors in hause pipe, stocked anchor on billboard further aft, Sailors leaning on the bow bulwark, jack at half-mast, bell mounted in front of the ship's pilothouse, and barred portholes. Credit: NAVY. |  | Ready for launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 16 September 1943. Note riveting and plating details on the ship's hull. Billboard in the foreground celebrates the combat exploits of another ship built by the Mare Island Navy Yard: USS Wahoo (SS-238). There are War Bond posters to its left. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Truck with billboard posted on side reading "Hello A.F. of L., unions should be color blind ..." by the San Francisco Branch of the NAACP, San Francisco, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Photograph of billboard advertising Endicott-Johnson shoes, showing man displaying shoes] / Thos. Cosack Co. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Middlesboro, Kentucky. A billboard advertisement for a gasoline service station. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tattered billboard, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lynchburg, Virginia. Amoco (American Oil Company) billboard. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | We like to listen to your opinions] [we have created a public relations billboard to serve you and hope it will allow you to participate in our policy making]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Country Road" by Paige Foster Commentary: "An aging billboard in the distance, next to a midwestern country road." | "Caliente" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Ancient Billboard promoting the Caliente races in Tijuana." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A huge red billboard stood beside the road ahead, and it threw a great oblong shadow |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Channels for mass advertising include publications, radio, television and billboard displays, as well as sports sponsorship. (references) | |
By 1992, the first outdoor neon billboard in the country was erected for DHL. In 1993, local Vietnamese TV accepted the first foreign advertising spots. (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | Television, radio, print, and billboard media are ubiquitous in the Russian market. (references) |
West Bank | A few companies have begun billboard advertising, which should expand over the next few years. (references) | |
Romania | Billboard locations are multiplying and backlit models are replacing simple painted billboards. (references) | |
Political Rights | Liechtenstein | Prior to the February parliamentary elections, the Government ran two billboard campaigns to promote female candidates, one encouraging women to run for office, and another calling on voters to support female candidates. (references) |
Women | Poland | The topic received increasing coverage in the media during the year, most notably through a highly visible media and billboard campaign. (references) |
Liechtenstein | In addition to billboard advertisements and radio spots, the Government published two brochures on the law, one targeted at companies and another aimed at female employees--the latter was sent to all households. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Billboard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.21% of the time. "Billboard" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.21% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (common) | 25% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.79% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "billboard": billboard advertising. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "billboard": photo-billboard. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
billboard | 10,931 | billboard music award | 113 |
billboard chart | 2,608 | billboard online | 102 |
billboard music | 1,902 | mobile billboard | 101 |
billboard top 100 | 1,034 | billboard 200 | 88 |
billboard top 10 | 996 | billboard top song | 82 |
billboard top 40 | 910 | billboard country music | 82 |
billboard magazine | 740 | billboard top 200 | 67 |
billboard music chart | 697 | latin billboard | 64 |
billboard 100 | 413 | billboard country chart | 62 |
billboard advertising | 303 | billboard top 100 single | 60 |
billboard hit | 287 | billboard rap | 53 |
billboard top 20 | 254 | aiken billboard clay | 51 |
billboard top | 211 | funny billboard | 50 |
billboard hot 100 | 187 | billboard single top | 47 |
country billboard | 150 | billboard song | 46 |
billboard top 50 | 139 | 100 billboard music top | 44 |
billboard top ten | 130 | billboard music top | 44 |
billboard top 100 song | 120 | billboard list | 40 |
billboard top hit | 116 | 100 billboard chart top | 36 |
billboard radio | 114 | billboard single | 36 |
billboard countdown | 36 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "billboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stendë afishimi (notice board). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дъска за обяви (callboard, notice board, screen, tack board). (various references) | |
Chinese | 广告牌. (various references) | |
Czech | reklamní tabule, plakátovací tabule. (various references) | |
Danish | ankergalge (anchor bed). (various references) | |
Dutch | ankerbed (anchor bed). (various references) | |
Farsi | تخته اعلانات واگهی ها. (various references) | |
Finnish | mainoskilpi (advertising sign, hoarding), ilmoitusteline (hoarding). (various references) | |
French | panneau d'affichage (bill-board). (various references) | |
German | Anschlagbrett (bill-board, notice board, notice-board). (various references) | |
Greek | κλίνη άγκυρας (anchor bed), μάνδρα τοιχοκολλήσεωσ διαφημίσεων, πίνακασ αγγελίων (bill board), πίνακασ τοιχοκολλήσεωσ διαφημίσεων, ονυχοθέτης άγκυρας (anchor bed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hirdetõtábla (notice board), hirdetőtábla (bulletin board, hoarding, notice board). (various references) | |
Indonesian | baliho. (various references) | |
Italian | tabellone (bulletin board, hoarding, notice board), scarpa dell'àncora (anchor bed). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 看板 (appearance, attraction, closing time, doorplate, figurehead, policy, poster, sign, signboard), 立て看板 , 広告板 , 広告塔 (advertising sign), ビラン剤 (bill, bill broker, billiards, billionaire, blister agent, builder, building, building highjack, building maintenance, built-in, Burma). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たてかんばん, ビルボード , かんばん (appearance, attraction, closing time, doorplate, dry plate, figurehead, policy, poster, sign, signboard), こうこくばん, こうこくとう (advertising sign). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illboardbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | raposa da âncora (anchor bed), quadro de avisos (bulletin board, notice-board), letreiro (inscription, label, notice, placard, sign, signboard). (various references) | |
Romanian | panou (pane, panel), afişier. (various references) | |
Russian | доска для объявлений (notice board, notice-board). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oglasna tabla (bulletin board, notice board, noticeboard). (various references) | |
Spanish | varadero del ancla (anchor bed), cartelera (channel, hoarding, program), apeadero (halt, stop). (various references) | |
Swedish | anslagstavla (notice board, notice-board, signboard). (various references) | |
Thai | ประกาศหรือโฆษณา. (various references) | |
Turkish | ilan panosu (advertisement hoarding, hoarding). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дошка для оголошень (notice board). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bảng dán yết thị. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "billboard": billboarded, billboarding, billboards. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "billboard": antibillboard. (additional references) | |
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"Billboard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ballyoran, bellyboard, Bilboa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "billboard" (pronounced bi"lbô'rd) |
| 5 | -l b ô' r d | wallboard. |
| 4 | -b ô' r d | aboveboard, baseboard, blackboard, cardboard, checkerboard, chessboard, chipboard, clapboard, clipboard, containerboard, dartboard, dashboard, keyboard, linerboard, fiberboard, fibreboard, fingerboard, floorboard, hardboard, headboard, inboard, mopboard, onboard, outboard, overboard, paperboard, pegboard, plasterboard, pressboard, scoreboard, seaboard, shipboard, skateboard, smorgasbord, snowboard, springboard, storyboard, surfboard, switchboard, washboard. |
| 3 | -ô' r d | broadsword, clavichord, concord, landlord, harpsichord, notochord, overlord, underinsured, warlord. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-i-l-l-o-r" | |
-2 letters: bollard, labroid. | |
-3 letters: bailor, bilboa, bridal, dollar, liblab, ribald. | |
-4 letters: aboil, aldol, allod, aroid, bilbo, board, bolar, boral, braid, brail, brill, broad, broil, dobla, dobra, drail, drill, droll, labor, laird, liard, libra, lidar, lobar, loral, rabbi, rabid, radio. | |
-5 letters: abri, arid, aril, bail, bald, ball, barb, bard, bill, bird, birl, blab, blob, boar, boil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-i-l-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: billboards. | |
+2 letters: billboarded. | |
+3 letters: billboarding. | |
+4 letters: antibillboard. | |
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