What's the difference between billboard and commercial?

Billboard


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The campaign has used mobile billboards warning illegal immigrants to "go home or face arrest".
  • (2) Images of dead ducks in oil sands tailings pond have been plastered on billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis.
  • (3) "Offers came in at $2m (£1.2m), somebody offered $5m (£3m) yesterday," he recently told Billboard .
  • (4) Of Pompeii currently bounding up the Billboard chart – and having recently passed the 1m sales barrier in the US – he says first that this scenario is "ridiculous", then that "it just shows the size of the country".
  • (5) We report two cases of occupational contact dermatitis in billboard workers due to employment of a new paste additive.
  • (6) "We must make sure that those who want to advertise [with] women's images in the city can do so without fear of vandalism and defacement of billboards or buses showing women," he has said.
  • (7) Billboard magazine reported in March that Apple had used its market dominance to prevent labels from agreeing to let Amazon.com exclusively debut new songs.
  • (8) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
  • (9) Labour's "Ashes to Ashes" posters will be displayed on electronic billboards from London to Manchester, after it was chosen from around 1,000 entries.
  • (10) Under the glamorous billboards and ubiquitous skyscrapers of this fast-paced metropolis, the city is home to nine – soon to be 10 – universities, attended by hundreds of thousands of pupils.
  • (11) The Conservative party unveiled the first billboard poster campaign of 2015 on Friday.
  • (12) Canaletto "Designed by genius", proclaim the billboards on City Road.
  • (13) Ukip’s campaign billboards relentlessly focused on Labour’s historical opposition to Brexit despite the party’s three-line whip to support the article 50 bill .
  • (14) Past posters were defaced with markers on billboards just as quickly, but the parodies had no means of going viral.
  • (15) Unlike Billboard, the Forbes list uses worldwide figures.
  • (16) "); the credits for the orchestra that revealed 22 violinists and five French horn players had been involved in its creation; the old-fashioned advertising campaign with TV advertising and billboards on Sunset Strip.
  • (17) It prohibits us from growing at a rate that we could be.” And unlike liquor companies, which can openly advertise on billboards and television, marijuanasellers are forbidden to do so by law.
  • (18) Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see.
  • (19) Ross is here for a Billboard photoshoot in the wood-panelled basement, and there's jazz playing in the background.
  • (20) One of them said: “My job today is to make you go away.” Migrants reach the Serbian-Hungarian border - in pictures Read more With Orbán at the helm, Hungary’s populist Fidesz government has reacted to the summer influx by spending €100m (£73m) building a four metre razor-wire fence and launching an anti-migrant billboard campaign aimed at dissuading people from coming to the country.

Commercial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (2) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
  • (3) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
  • (4) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (5) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
  • (6) Allergic photocontact dermatitis developed in a patient to a commercial sunscreen preparation containing para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) in an alcohol base.
  • (7) When commercial chickens are infected in most sensitive one-day age, the virus titre does not exceed the value of 10(12) particles per 1 ml of plasma.
  • (8) Using a commercially available radioimmunoassay kit.
  • (9) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
  • (10) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
  • (11) The commercially available chromogenic p-nitroanilide substrates Pro-Phe-Arg-NH-Np (S2302 or chromozym PK), Glp-Pro-Arg-NH-Np (S2366), Ile-Glu-(piperidyl)-Gly-Arg-NH-Np (S2337), and Ile-Glu-Gly-Arg-NH-Np (S2222) were tested for their suitability as substrates in these assays.
  • (12) Twenty strains did not agglutinate with commercial serum O-Yersinia IMUNA; they were included in the group "Yersinia enterocolitica other biovars" and 60 strains were "Environmental Yersinia isolates".
  • (13) Albumin was highly purified from a commercially available rat albumin preparation (Fraction V) using disc electrophoresis.
  • (14) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
  • (15) The apparatus can be constructed from commercially available, inexpensive components.
  • (16) He also conceded that commercial operators could not solve the problem alone.
  • (17) The viral titer was 10(1.8) tissue culture infective doses (TCID) higher than that of commercial ERA vaccine.
  • (18) Urea was determined by means of diacetyl monoxim in the blood cells of 80 cockerels of the initial breed White Leghorn, commercial hybrid Primant.
  • (19) Second, at a time when efforts to improve the safety of commercial factor VIII have led to extraordinary increases in cost, factor VIII from plasma exchange donation promises to be relatively inexpensive.
  • (20) "Businesses will be ecstatic at today's decision because the Games will bring a colossal one-off commercial boost to the entire country," said the group's president, Michael Cassidy.