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signboard

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++sign·board /ˈsaɪnbɔːd $ -bɔːrd/ noun [countable]  a flat piece of wood, cardboard etc in a public place, with writing on it that gives people information 招牌,告示牌
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signboardFlights to each place were listed on a signboard above the ticket window.It towered over the railway line and the makeshift station, a platform without a signboard.A signboard, by the entrance, proclaimed that the business had been established in 1852.A blue and red hand-painted signboard is hung over the entrance and a garland of marigolds placed around it.Then I found it, a narrow split in the forest with a white-painted signboard, partly covered by an overhanging bush.Now, the windows were whitewashed over, and the signboards over them were weathered illegible.By the 1990s, the Rumbaughs had a chimp named Kanzi requesting treats and even asking to play games by using signboards.
sign·board nounChineseSyllable
Corpus place, wood, public flat a cardboard in of etc piece a


signboard
signboard /ˈsaɪnbɔːd $ -bɔːrd/ noun [countable]
a flat piece of wood, cardboard etc in a public place, with writing on it that gives people information


sign·boardBrE /ˈsaɪnbɔːd/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsaɪnbɔːrd/ 🔊 nouna piece of wood that has some information on it, such as a name, and is displayed outside a shop/store, hotel, etc. (商店、旅馆等的)招牌,告示牌,广告牌