What's the difference between noticeboard and signboard?

Noticeboard


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the entrance to Kailash Satyarthi’s nondescript office is a small noticeboard, of the old fashioned type, with white plastic letters pressed into a dark felt background.
  • (2) Streetbank logo Streetbank is was set up by friends Sam and Ryan as a lending and giving away site and works a little bit like a local noticeboard.
  • (3) | Rod Bower Read more That includes Gosford Anglican church’s Father Rod Bower , who has courted controversy by using the noticeboard outside his church to call for support for gay marriage.
  • (4) As late as university in the mid-90s, I was handed a black prospectus, featuring action shots of a Punjabi pointing at a noticeboard (sadly, this was to prove an all-too-accurate guide to student entz).
  • (5) As well as articles, the magazine served as a noticeboard for feminist events and activism.
  • (6) At Laluk police station, the faces of missing girls stare out from the noticeboard.
  • (7) "Long live ETA," scribbled in marker-pen on a noticeboard, is a reminder that these sorts of places were traditional recruiting grounds for the all-but-defeated terrorist group that announced a definitive end to its 40 years of violence last October.
  • (8) But there is plenty of action nearby: Carvalhal beach is a short drive away, and owner Sara Serrão keeps noticeboards updated with local festivals, activities and events.
  • (9) To save you the trouble, at this historic juncture, of sending in the query, what is the origin of N&Q?, the answer goes like this: during the interval of a concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989, Guardian leader writer David McKie spotted a noticeboard outside the library on which people pinned questions, to which other people then provided answers.
  • (10) She was so elated to receive her first cheque from Amazon, for $15.75, that she didn't cash it and still has it pinned up on a noticeboard above her desk.
  • (11) The ability to extract communications from talk channels in games would be necessary, the NSA paper argued, because of the potential for them to be used to communicate anonymously: Second Life was enabling anonymous texts and planning to introduce voice calls, while game noticeboards could, it states, be used to share information on the web addresses of terrorism forums.
  • (12) "Nothing hangs around our noticeboard that long," one who saw the ad told me.
  • (13) But instead of trying to draw them away, they try to own the space by having their own presence on both sites , which have become a bit of a hub for school activities and pictures – so more than simply a virtual noticeboard.
  • (14) The internet has become a noticeboard and recruiting ground for bigots of every type.
  • (15) Head up on the main track and through the gate, past a noticeboard.
  • (16) Prominently displayed on a noticeboard are a few thank-you letters from former detainees, detailing their gratitude to Yarl’s Wood employees.
  • (17) The victims of often violent persecution at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan as well as wider discrimination (in Florida in the 1920s restaurant noticeboards declared "no dogs or Greeks allowed") Greek Americans proudly recount how, almost alone among ethnic minorities, they actively participated in the civil rights movement, their spiritual leader Archbishop Iakovos daring to march alongside Martin Luther King.
  • (18) That figure on the noticeboard is about to tick over 80,000.
  • (19) I pinned the words on a piece of paper to my noticeboard, and tried and failed to find the originator of that observation.
  • (20) Outside the dusty court in Blantyre, southern Malawi , there is a piece of paper pinned to the noticeboard with a list of the day's cases.

Signboard


Definition:

  • (n.) A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why did every experience have to be had from behind a low rail with a helpful signboard?
  • (2) Urban spaces are already filled with multitudes of signs including directories and signboards, calling for organization of signage as a system and not merely as a collection of individual signs.
  • (3) The signboards are also small, if not absent, so outsiders would have few clues of the luxury inside.
  • (4) The only evidence of their presence is a signboard outside the derelict courthouse and the enormous shattered water tower that, military officials say, the retreating rebels tried to destroy with dynamite when they evacuated the town.
  • (5) He has also invested in digital signboards to warn about roadworks or accidents.
  • (6) There are no coach parties or signboards, just me and an osprey who sits in the trees watching.
  • (7) Most had huge signboards on them, announcing the place as a future site for a church.
  • (8) Instead, several floats were interposed between the pair, including Bronnie Takes a Ride, depicting Bronwyn Bishop in a helicopter, and DIY Rainbow, featuring the Sydney signboard activist Danny Lim.
  • (9) Redeemed Christian Mission, Winners Chapel, Christ Embassy, the signboards went on and on.
  • (10) Travelling north, a train that had hurtled across the Pas de Calais now rolled so slowly through Kent and the London suburbs that you could read the names on the station signboards – Paddock Wood, Sevenoaks, Penge – as though somewhere in the darkness under the Channel we had fallen asleep with Cary Grant on the 20th Century Limited and woken up with Will Hay in Oh Mr Porter!
  • (11) Currently we are used as a deterrent signboard for the refugees of the world used by the Australian government which tells them this is what is going to happen to you if you come to Australia.” Neither letter has received a reply yet.

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