What's the difference between flyer and handbill?

Flyer


Definition:

  • (n.) One that uses wings.
  • (n.) The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
  • (n.) Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
  • (n.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
  • (n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
  • (n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
  • (n.) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
  • (2) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
  • (3) I suppose I may be one of the most frequent flyers on the NHS, and therefore one of your best customers.
  • (4) On Saturday morning in Adelaide, someone put the finishing touches to their “all girls must finish kindy before marriage” sign; a woman donned her cow suit painted with the message “don’t halal me”; and the Australia First Party stacked their “Multiculturalism Means Death” flyers before joining a thousand other Reclaim Australia supporters in Elder Park.
  • (5) Two aircrew members lost a total of 9 "duties not to include flying" (DNIF) days: one flyer was grounded for 1 d with a corneal abrasion and another for 8 d with epithelial microcysts.
  • (6) Andy Hill, a 51-year-old former RAF instructor with more than 12,000 hours of flying experience, is a skilled aerobatic flyer and a regular at airshows, said fellow pilot, who flew earlier in the show.
  • (7) Got warrants from Beverly Hills?” the flyer asked.
  • (8) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
  • (9) One man – Guo Xianliang, an engineer from Yunnan Province – is detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power after distributing flyers about Liu and the prize in Guangdong, southern China, the organisation reported.
  • (10) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.
  • (11) After her legal studies, Lady Scotland practised family law - not a field noted for high-flyers - as a barrister.
  • (12) I was a nervous flyer so he had the plane done out like a sweetshop.
  • (13) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
  • (14) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
  • (15) He didn't mind telling you, for instance, that his wife's family had been interned in camps in the country to which they were now returning; if he saw someone handing out flyers in the street, he would delve deeply into their purposes; he was not shy of doorstepping ancient members of the KGB.
  • (16) The Bundesliga high flyers unveiled Hernández at a press conference on Tuesday and he said: “I want to go back to feeling important and happy.
  • (17) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Only buy newspapers, magazines, books, toilet paper and copier paper made from recycled materials 0.1 Block direct mail, choose electronic bills and statements, buy secondhand books and share papers 0.1 'I'm a frequent flyer.
  • (18) Ennis had hit a jumper just moments before that cut the Flyers' lead down to one and, as everyone on both sides certainly remembered, hit a dagger of a game-winner against Pittsburgh just last month .
  • (19) He is not the only high-flyer to choose the slightly dog-eared charms of The White House over a Four Seasons suite with a mini-bar and 24-hour concierge somewhere abroad.
  • (20) We would walk around and see flyers that said stuff like, ‘Video is out now text 831 to 7988’ or whatever the number was.

Handbill


Definition:

  • (n.) A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.
  • (n.) A pruning hook.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The exhibition showcases the tastes and pastimes of this middle market, largely by means of the printed images, books and handbills that advertised and explained them.
  • (2) The fliers were inexpensive handbills describing the center's location and services, distributed to 23,000 households.
  • (3) The Times writer was amazed by what he saw: ‘The warmth and life of the flesh, the breathing in the nostrils… ’ For a few cents more, the man from the Times might have bought a curious pamphlet quite unlike the usual hyperbolic handbills to these shows, telling how the portrait came to be painted in Madrid in 1623 and by what luck it came into the possession of a humble tradesman, as the owner described himself, two centuries later in England.
  • (4) But first she sang at a tiny cafe down the street, Aux Folies , an art-deco relic with cubist mosaics, swirls of neon lettering above its zinc counter, and iron pillars plastered with handbills for shows dating back to the 1920s.
  • (5) Condoms were advertised during the 18th century, usually by handbill.
  • (6) 3% cited mobile loudspeakers, handbills, posters or slides in cinemas.