display board
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3.2
- noun
:
tablero de exhibición
- The students used a display board to showcase their science projects during the school fair.
Examples
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A series of display boards are set out for the public to check out, and there are many CTA staffers present, but only a dozen or so citizens show up during the hour I'm there.
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One of the things I'd love to see is a display board showing which buses are currently in the station.
Blog text (27) -
On a display board, the students posted relevant information, photographs, and other items related to their window to the past.
Academic text (1995) -
Now let's suppose the flight information display board only wants to show which flights have departed or not.
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The researcher may develop a display board with illustrations, written comments, and graphics detailing the history of the item.
Academic text (1990) -
In preparation for this, we decided to divide up classroom display boards into equally sized sections and allocate a space to each child.
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The façade of a large heat production plant was transformed into a giant display board that reflected the variety of voices existing in the area.
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It would be fabulous to reach the top of the escalator and see a display board so I know whether the CTA or Pace bus is in the station and which way to turn after I go through the gates.
Blog text (27) -
I could get a "refreshable braille display board" which would reproduce whatever appears on my screen in a changing, ticker-tape-like braille display.
Academic text (1996) -
I remember vividly that at the organizing conference of the OAU in Addis Ababa in 1963, the portraits of all the presidents of Africa's independent states were mounted on huge display boards outside the conference center.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
259
1.0
A flat surface where people put notices and information
19
2.5
A board on a wall for pinning public notices and messages
1
2.1
A board on a wall where people pin public messages and announcements
1
3.0
A flat screen or board that shows information in public places
How Visible
- US
167
1.3
- Specialized
197
2.5
1
3.2
- UK
1
2.1
- US
19
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a board on which information is displayed' is directly derivable from combining 'display' (to present or exhibit) with 'board' (a flat surface for notices). This is a literal, compositional noun phrase following common modifier+noun patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Display board comes from the simple picture of a flat board used to display things. People would put notices, times, or pictures on the board so everyone could see them, so display board means 'a panel for showing information to the public'.