bulletin board

bulletin board

English

Etymology

bulletin +‎ board

Noun

bulletin board (plural bulletin boards)

1. A board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space.

   Synonyms: (UK) notice board, pinboard

   • 1966, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 90:

     Somewhere near Fillmore she found the symbol tacked to the bulletin board of a laundromat, among other scraps of paper offering cheap ironing and baby sitters.

   • 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 5:

     It should come as no surprise to see promotional material and bulletin boards in the department’s languages, though English is also present in the signage of this microcosm of the institution.

2. (computing) Ellipsis of bulletin board system.
   • 1984 September 3, Judith Walters von Alten, “Color for Bulletin Boards”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 6, InfoWorld Media Group, ISSN 0199-6649, page 35:

     Some bulletin board subscribers can now dial up displays for their IBM PC or PC XT in living color—and see the results in less than a second.

Derived terms

• bulletin board service
• bulletin board system

Translations

a board

Armenian: հայտարարությունների տախտակ (haytararutʿyunneri taxtak) Catalan: taulell d’anuncis m Chinese: Cantonese: 壁報板, 壁报板 (bik1 bou3 baan2) Mandarin: 揭示板 (jiēshìbǎn), 佈告欄／布告栏 (zh), 布告栏 (zh) (bùgàolán) Czech: nástěnka f Esperanto: anonctabulo Finnish: ilmoitustaulu (fi) French: panneau d'affichage m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Schwarzes Brett (de) n, Pinnwand (de) f, Korkwand f Italian: bacheca (it) f Japanese: 掲示板 (ja) (けいじばん, keijiban) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 게시판(揭示板) (ko) (gesipan) Macedonian: о́гласна та́бла f (óglasna tábla) Malay: papan kenyataan Maori: papa whakaaturanga, papa whakaatu, papa pānui Mongolian: зарлалын самбар (zarlalyn sambar) Persian: تابلوی اعلانات‎ (fa) (tâblo-ye e'lânât), بورد‎ (fa) (bōrd) Polish: tablica ogłoszeń f Portuguese: quadro de avisos m Russian: доска́ объявле́ний (ru) f (doská obʺjavlénij) Serbo-Croatian: oglasna ploča Spanish: tablón de anuncios m Swedish: anslagstavla (sv) c Tagalog: paskilan Thai: please add this translation if you can Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: pano (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

bulletin board system — see bulletin board system