单词 | poster |
释义 | postern.1ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > rapid poster1538 gallopera1693 popper1760 1538 S. Winton Let. 23 Jan. in Lett. Bp. Gardiner (1933) 80 Nowe I depech Rede, who canne skyl of runnyng. And my posters be in England. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 31 The weyward Sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the Sea and Land, Thus doe goe, about, about. View more context for this quotation 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert iii. vi. xxxviii At this, Goltho alights as swiftly post As Posters mount. 1816 M. Keating Trav. Eur. & Afr. I. Pref. 9 A poster of roads will write rapidly; a sick man querulously [etc.]. 1839 T. Hood Lament Toby in Hood's Own 539 O heavy day! O day of woe! To misery a poster. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger erendrakec825 bodec888 apostlec950 sand1038 sandesman1123 sanderbodec1200 bearer?c1225 errand-bearer?c1225 messenger?c1225 erindeberea1250 sand-manc1275 beadsman1377 herald1377 messagea1382 runnera1382 sendmana1400 interpreter1490 nuntius1534 post1535 pursuivant?1536 nuncius1573 nuncio1587 carrier1594 nunciate1596 mercury1597 chiaus1599 foreranger1612 postera1614 irisa1616 missivea1616 chouse1632 angela1637 caduceator1684 purpose messenger1702 errand-bringer1720 harkara1747 commissionaire1749 carrier pigeon1785 errander1803 errand-porter1818 tchaush1819 card carrier1845 errand-goer1864 choush1866 ghulam1882 a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 606 The noble poster of newis athort the world. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > hired or for hire > from post-house post-horse1527 post1600 poster1756 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) i. 12 The horses are very good, and what they use for posting are..bays... The price of these posters are £15 or £16 a piece for the best. 1797 H. Newdigate Let. 9 July in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) xiii. 181 A good dinner..was ready to come upon Table when ye Posters arrived. 1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt I. iii. 36 Mr. Hippy's travelling chariot was rattled up to the door by four high-mettled posters from the nearest inn. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 309/1 The horse of quick work, the stage-coach horse and the poster. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xv. 137 There were no cattle, save the single old pair of posters. 4. A person who posts a letter, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > one who poster1770 mailer1884 1770 A. Brice Mobiad vi. 165 Post-Office Window, slap! claps to: In vain Posters with Letters to save Twopence strain. 1884 Manch. Examiner 11 June 5/4 It will be the duty of the officer in attendance to stamp the form with the office stamp, and hand it back to the poster. 1950 Times 22 Dec. 2/3 Then there is the extreme case of the late poster—the man who, regardless of cost, would order a Post Office messenger ‘for the express conveyance all the way of letters, urgent goods and so on’. 1982 J. Mackay Guinness Bk. Stamps 24 Some posters might not understand its operation, or post letters unpaid. 2002 World News Connection (Nexis) 13 Nov. Police were hunting for two men..identified as the posters of the parcel by workers at Yala's Kuan Don post office. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). postern.2 1. a. A person who posts or sticks up bills, flyers, posters, etc. Usually as the second element of a compound, as bill-poster, fly-poster. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > person who upsetter1567 poster1754 bill-sticker1774 placard bearer1809 placarder1809 placard-carrier1819 placardeer1821 placard man1832 bill-poster1864 1754 Secret Hist. Two Last Memorable S—ss—ons Parl. 56 None could detect the Author, Printer, or poster up of those Papers. 1819 Times 10 Aug. 2/5 The peace-officer..was at once rescued by the mob, who beat the bill-poster and the constable and obliged them to take refuge in the Crown and Kettle-inn. 1864 Times 24 Dec. 9/3 A corps of bill-posters, painters, etc., to put advertisements on the prominent rocks. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 459/1 It is doubtful if Clemenceau, Coué, or Einstein, for example, would ‘draw’ enough to pay the village bill-poster. 1996 Independent 26 Mar. 4/7 Under cross-examination.., Mr Carr agreed it was possible that rival fly-posters would have reason for shooting them. b. Computing. On a network, esp. the internet: a contributor to a mailing list, newsgroup, or other online forum. ΚΠ 1982 Re: Read this with an Open Mind in net.jokes (Usenet newsgroup) 30 Apr. The data proc/transmission program was told many times before the chain finally reached the poster of the joke. 1989 Whole Earth Rev. (Nexis) Jan. 113 Anyone on Usenet can post an article to an unmoderated newsgroup, and within a few days it will propagate to every site subscribing to that newsgroup. Or, the poster can put geographic limits on distribution. 1993 Wired Feb. 122/4 Citadel [bulletin board system] can handle up to 500 users at a time and boasts a rapidly growing user base of over 18,000 posters. 1995 .net Feb. 58/1 The problem with newsgroups is that you always get a few posters who think they're miniature Oscar Wildes. 2001 R. Cellan-Jones Dot.bomb xi. 182 [The name] may be well known amongst the Islington media luvvies..but as far as most of the world's concerned it's ‘who..?’ was the opinion of a poster by the name of ‘Freesham’. 2. A printed or written notice posted or displayed in a public place as an announcement or advertisement. Now also: a large printed picture (which may or may not be an advertisement) suitable for decorative display. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > a placard, notice, or bill bill1480 placard1560 ticket1567 pancart1577 affix1589 si quis1597 affiche1602 placketa1605 programme1633 programmaa1661 advertisement1692 clap-bill1699 handbill1718 daybill1731 show bill?a1750 notice1766 play-card1778 card1787 posting bill1788 poster1818 sticker1862 flyer1889 paper1896 1818 R. B. Peake Amateurs & actors ii. i. 34 Bus I don't recollect you—had you your own name in the bills? Eld To be sure, why do you ask? and I flatter myself in some pretty large bills too. Bus He must mean the posters, only he does not know how to express himself. 1861 Illustr. London News 6 July 3/3 A most seditious ‘poster’ with which all the walls..were placarded. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 9 June 2/3 By his cartoon for a poster, ‘The Woman in White’, one of his biographers states that he [sc. Fred. Walker] may be said to have started the fashion of artistic advertising in this country. 1963 House & Garden Mar. 57/1 ‘Visit the Château Country’ adjure the travel posters. And that, of course, means the châteaux of the Loire. 1994 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Mar. a7/2 One bullet ripped into a glass-framed ‘Aladdin’ poster hanging in a bedroom and exited the house through a wall. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective. poster art n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > poster art poster art1896 1896 Overland Monthly July 50/1 R. C. Master..has done much to popularize poster art. 1920 M. Hardie & A. K. Sabin War Posters ii. 7 Poster art and pictorial art have essentially different aims. 1992 New Yorker 3 Feb. 74/3 Poster art—angry, aggressive banging and soupy, sentimental nostalgia—is today's favored symphonic mode. poster artist n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > poster art > artist poster designer1895 poster artist1896 posterist1901 1896 Daily News 28 Nov. 6/1 Portraits of some of the leading poster artists, with selections from their works. 1928 H. C. Brown Golden Nineties 203 New poster artists continued to appear and carry on with the others as long as their services were in demand in this day. 1990 Apollo July 70/1 A Leningrad association of poster artists. poster cloth n. ΚΠ 1896 Times 26 June 4/5 (advt.) The poster cloth is especially useful for positions exposed to the weather. poster collecting n. ΚΠ 1899 Westm. Gaz. 11 Mar. 2/1 It is said..that the new custom of poster-collecting causes persons to strip these designs from the walls when opportunity offers. 2004 Daily Herald-Tribune (Grande Prairie, Alberta) (Nexis) 25 Mar. 28 The history of poster collecting dates to the late 19th century, when the burgeoning merchant class eagerly sought the colorful lithographs. poster collector n. ΚΠ 1895 Chap-bk. III. 471 For the benefit of Poster Collectors a special edition of fifty copies has been printed on Japan paper. 2004 Detroit Free Press (Nexis) 22 June For poster collector and curator Otto Buj, Andzej Bertrand's geometric design on a black background..spoke to him like no other image. poster design n. ΚΠ 1890 Times 6 Nov. 10/1 However good a single poster design might be, [etc.] 1920 M. Hardie & A. K. Sabin War Posters ii. 14 The number of poster designs from his hand is at least fifty. 1991 Jrnl. Design Hist. 4 259/1 This exhibition, a near comprehensive review of his career..includes poster designs, cartoons and caricatures, and book design. poster designer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > poster art > artist poster designer1895 poster artist1896 posterist1901 1895 Scribner's Mag. July 45/2 ‘The Beggarstaff Brothers’..are in the very van of the advance-guard of poster-designers. 1954 T. Eckersley Poster Design 7 The illustrations in this book are by leading poster designers. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 June 15/3 Playwrights, poster designers, and novelists showed a particular interest in the 1920s. poster designing n. ΚΠ 1895 Scribner's Mag. July 45/2 [Beggarstaff designs] are among the most striking of all the English attempts at original poster-designing. 1933 L. Richmond Technique of Poster p. v Poster designing is a serious but most interesting art. 2004 Hindu (Nexis) 17 Sept. The children..displayed their proficiency in poster designing and in the chanting of the Bhagavad Gita. poster hoarding n. ΚΠ 1899 Westm. Gaz. 11 Mar. 2/1 In London the poster-hoardings are rated, so contribute to the local expenses. 1929 Times 1 Oct. 13/3 These show external views of railway stations, a poster hoarding, [etc.] 1995 This Mag. July 3/3 Our new logo has the industrial feeling of small press printing while the overlapping text and images conjure urban poster hoarding. poster-making n. ΚΠ 1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Dec. 8/1 An exquisitely clever and amusing design, that would take the blue ribbon, judged by the points of artistic poster-making. 1951 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 25 222 The art teacher will find youngsters eager to participate in poster-making on safety subjects. 1993 Action Feb. 1 Other seminars concentrated on media skills such as poster-making, writing [etc.]. poster panel n. ΚΠ 1929 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 319/2 On the poster panels of to-day, in the United States, may be seen the work of Harrison Fisher. 2004 Cornishman (Nexis) 14 Oct. 13 The company had been issued with a discontinuation notice after displaying three non-luminated 48-sheet, six metre by three metre poster panels on the two roads, which are located in the Penzance Conservation Area. poster pilfering adj. and n. ΚΠ 1899 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 5/3 The light-fingered..poster-pilfering fraternity. 1995 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 14 May a1 Holy poster pilfering! Burbank-based Warner Bros. and Gannett are using surveillance cameras and off-duty police officers to prevent the widespread theft of ‘Batman Returns’ posters from bus shelters. C2. poster board n. (a) North American a type of thin cardboard, suited to making posters; (b) a (large) noticeboard for displaying posters. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > cardboard > types of index board1850 carton1891 third1891 poster board1899 tagboard1912 triplex board1921 ivory board1926 1899 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 9 June 1/2 Some unknown resident objects.., and therefore placed a big poster board sign on top of the post. 1910 Mansfield (Ohio) News 4 Jan. 1/7 On the official poster board of the On Leong tong headquarters, there is also a long pink slip with more strange characters painted on it. 1994 Artnews Feb. 152/3 Rojo's technique is a rich pastiche of mediums. Each road is lined with cork cylinders on strips of poster board, the canvas sprinkled with sawdust, and covered in olive pigment. 2004 Sunday Express (Nexis) 6 June 110 The Swede is emblazoned across a far bigger posterboard than any player. poster boy n. (a) a male appearing on a poster; a male pin-up; (b) a male regarded as the epitome or ideal of a specified phenomenon, movement, cause, etc.; frequently with for, of. ΚΠ 1946 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. 21/6 The 1946 March of Dimes ‘poster boy’, 6-year-old Donald Anderson..arrived here yesterday..to spur the infantile paralysis drive. 1978 Newsweek (Nexis) 13 Mar. 58 And Shaun has ascended to superstardom as America's No. 1 poster boy by selling 5 million copies of his four pinups. 1985 Washington Post 10 Oct. b1/1 Fittingly, the eight-out save went to 230-pound Niedenfuer, who could be the poster boy for Love Handles and is affectionately known as Buffalo Head. 1996 B. Helgeland & C. Hanson L.A. Confid. (film transcript) (Buff Revised Pages) 8 a (stage direct.) Exley is an up-and-comer. A police department poster boy. Burning with ambition. 2002 Mirror 18 Mar. 17/2 The poster boy of international terrorism. poster child n. (a) a child appearing on a poster; (b) a person or thing regarded as the epitome or ideal of a specified phenomenon, movement, cause, etc.; frequently with for, of. ΚΠ 1938 Washington Post 18 June 6/7 The poster children on the front blackboard stared down at me, helplessly. 1978 Washington Post Mag. 29 Jan. 16/2 Epiphany, you recall, was the preferred perception of the whole Vietnam era: of acid heads, patriots..schizophrenics (those poster children of the decade). 1995 Abilities (Toronto) Spring 2/2 Members of the media..have been subjected to the same messages over time: messages depicting people with disabilities as cute poster children, heroic athletes, or especially most recently, pitiable cripples. 2000 Builder & Engineer July 25/1 You'd have to be living in a cave not to have noticed that the building industry has become the poster child for the old economy. poster colour n. = poster paint n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > paints oil colour1498 oila1536 oil paint1759 cake colour1784 colour cake1794 moist colour1842 powder colour1862 tube-colour1881 tempera1883 powder paint1911 poster colour1925 finger paint1935 poster paint1939 1925 Studio (Art & Publicity No.) Autumn (verso front cover) The ‘Kingsway’ Poster Colours..supplied in Tubes and Glass Pots. 1994 S. P. Somtow Jasmine Nights (1995) xxxiv. 251 We paint the column in grey poster colour, suggesting the flutings with thin stripes of black. poster girl n. (a) a female appearing on a poster; a female pin-up; (b) a female regarded as the epitome or ideal of a specified phenomenon, movement, cause, etc.; frequently with for, of. ΚΠ 1896 Washington Post 4 May 6/5 The poster girls have scarlet eyes And yellow cheeks and purple hair, With brownish ears and greenish lips, In tints outre beyond compare. 1919 Times 1 Dec. 11/5 She talked to some of the girls near her, asking questions of their camp life, admired the attractive poster girls, and passed through all the rooms where the campers were at play or singing. 1985 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 16 July c12 Marcia Ramsay would be the perfect poster girl for coaches promoting high school track as a positive experience. 1996 Time 24 June 76/3 The 34-year-old host easily established herself as the poster girl of the campaign to clean up daytime talk. 2002 Glamour July 71/1 We live in an anything-goes era, surrounded by double-dare-you poster girls like Pamela Anderson, Madonna and the entire cast of Sex and the City. postermaniac n. a person with a mania for collecting posters.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1895 Standard 23 Nov. 5/1 There exist two or three catalogues raisonnés which are indispensable to the postermaniac. poster paint n. a flat, matt opaque paint with a water-soluble binder, such as is used for painting posters. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > paints oil colour1498 oila1536 oil paint1759 cake colour1784 colour cake1794 moist colour1842 powder colour1862 tube-colour1881 tempera1883 powder paint1911 poster colour1925 finger paint1935 poster paint1939 1939 W. Clemence Man. Postercraft xii. 92 Good quality flat poster paints, thinned with a little turpentine..blend well, are smooth of application, and dry in excellent time and condition. 1986 R. Sproat Stunning the Punters 134 There was a picture..done in that powdery poster paint the kids use in school. poster paper n. (a) paper of the type used for printing posters; (b) a paper presented at a poster session. ΚΠ 1901 J. Beveridge Papermakers' Pocket Bk. i. 26 German classification and sizes of papers..Affichenpapiere (thin poster paper). 1978 Science 10 Mar. 1105/2 A limited number of shorter oral contributions and poster papers to be selected at a later date. 1992 Art Newspaper 37 No-one else is able to achieve such diverse, original effects with printed poster paper. 1995 Observatory 115 138 The Preface promises to list the titles and principal authors of the meeting's poster papers at the end of the book. poster session n. a meeting at a conference, etc., at which work is displayed on posters (see quot. 1977). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of parliament?a1400 diet1471 symposiac1603 by-conference1625 guestling1629 sanhedrim1653 comitia1684 symposium1784 assembly1794 powwow1812 neighbourhood meeting1823 colloquium1861 congress1861 party conference1875 indaba1894 press conference1908 case conference1913 story conference1920 telemeeting1973 poster session1974 START1981 presser1988 1974 Science 8 Mar. 992 Poster session discussion...There will be provision for contributed papers via ‘poster’presentations during the conference. 1977 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Apr. 51/2 (advt.) All contributed ‘papers’ are to be given in poster sessions, where from a visual display one decides whether to stop and exchange thoughts person to person. 1994 Discover Apr. 65/2 He presented his micrographs in a poster session at the annual meeting. Derivatives ˈposter-like adj. ΚΠ 1906 Athenæum 9 June 710/1 Whose work amongst that of our own painters seemed somewhat abrupt and posterlike. 1926 Times 10 June 22/4 She ought to get the character of the costumes into the landscapes by treating the latter in a more poster-like manner. 1994 Stamp Mag. Nov. 84/1 The unimaginative poster-like design was limited to two values representing domestic postal rates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). postern.3 1. Rugby. A ball that passes directly over the top of one of the goalposts. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of kick or ball drop1845 drop-kick1857 punt-out1861 free kick1862 poster1862 goal kick1870 dropout1882 touch kick1887 touch-finder1898 fly-kick1906 grubber kick1950 grub-kick1951 tap-kick1960 up and under1960 chip kick1965 Garryowen1965 box kick1972 chip and chase1976 1862 Rulebk. in J. Macrory Running with Ball (1991) xi. 97 If it rises directly over the end of one of the posts it is called a poster. 1900 A. E. T. Watson Young Sportsman 284 Poster,..a place kick which..would have hit the posts produced upward and rebounded into the field of play. 1930 Times 14 Mar. 7/1 He played in three International matches, dropped a goal in two, and scoring [sic] a ‘poster’ in the other. 2. Australian Rules Football. A kick for goal that hits one of the goalposts and hence scores only a point. ΚΠ 1903 Sporting News & Axeman's Jrnl. (Launceston, Tasmania) 6 June 3/7 Foley had the bad luck to get a ‘poster’. 1950 Western Mail (Perth, Austral.) 12 Oct. 50/3 After Perth had notched two minors—one a ‘poster’ from a snap by Zeuner—Wests got the ball over the centre. 1960 South Western Times (Bunbury, W. Austral.) 3 May 6/2 Archie Sweeting was a headache to the Carey Park back men and a poster to this player deserved better fate. 1995 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 21 May His match statistics of 22 kicks, 5 marks, 10 handballs and three goals, including a poster, were critical to North Melbourne storming home in the last quarter. 2003 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 22 July 69 There were two terrible mistakes at the weekend: Stevie Lawrence and Jade Rawlings both handed six points for posters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). posterv. 1. transitive. To cover with or as with posters; to put up posters on (a wall or window) or around (a place). ΚΠ 1918 D. M. Means in J. M. Clark et al. Readings in Econ. of War liv. ii. 460 Tons of printed matter containing all sorts of counsels and prescriptions and appeals and threats..have burdened the mails and postered the walls and windows of our buildings. 1964 Times 9 Oct. 17/3 Dover and Deal have been..postered.., and Labour are confident that Dover is a plum. 1993 Rev. in Amer. Hist. 21 256 Countless residential windows were postered with the declaration: ‘This House..Will Be Tax Exempt Under The EPIC Plan’. 2001 Mother Jones Mar.–Apr. 80/2 Last summer, she postered the neighborhood with eye-catching signs. 2. transitive. To advertise or display on a poster. ΚΠ 1927 Passing Show Summer 33/1 He is the sort of fellow who insists upon visiting the places postered by eminent R.A.'s for the railway companies. 1937 Internat. Affairs 16 577 They had regular political meetings... There was a great deal of propaganda postered in English. 1988 Grocer 4 June 50/4 As the Happy Shopper range has been developed, Baldip has added these; 18 of them are postered on the central window. 2003 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 11 Apr. 4 e In Chicago last weekend, the Minnesota music scene was postered all over the window of the famous Jazz Record Mart store. 3. transitive. To put up or display (a piece of paper) as a poster; to make into a poster. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [verb (transitive)] > publish by placard, notice, or bill > put up a placard, notice, or bill stickc1425 to set upc1540 to stick up1562 post1647 to put up1693 poster1938 1938 S. Leslie Film of Memory 380 He forged and postered the most enthusiastic letter possible in his own favour. 1952 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse xvi. 210 Postered on the hoardings, with the slogan, ‘Eat more Linoleum’, the picture that I saw would have swept the floors..bare of linoleum in a fortnight. 1981 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 10 May 5 Few complied with the invitations postered along the road outside the heavily guarded building. 2004 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 16 Apr. 46 The university established a Web site..to appeal for help. Thousands of fliers were postered around the city. 4. intransitive. To put up posters. ΚΠ 1966 Times 23 Mar. 8/7 They have now borrowed a leaf from the Liberal campaign manual, and are postering and hammering on a scale approaching parity. 1980 Sojourner (Nexis) 30 Apr. 11 We try to keep ticket prices as low as possible and provide opportunities for women to work for a ticket by ushering, postering or providing childcare. 1994 M.E.A.T. Sept. 12/1 They'd heard of us due to the fact that we'd postered everywhere, and they decided to see what we were about. 2003 Bellingham (Washington) Herald (Nexis) 24 Apr. (Lifestyles section) 1 c Steve..postered for former Fairhaven club Speedy O'Tubbs for seven years and now handles fliers for the 3B Tavern. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11538n.21754n.31862v.1918 |
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