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Poster vs Advertising - What's the difference?

poster | advertising |

As nouns the difference between poster and advertising

is that poster is poster while advertising is communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.

As a verb advertising is

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poster

English

Etymology 1

from to post (placcard, publish) + -er

Noun

(wikipedia poster) (en noun)
  • One who s a message.
  • Some posters left the online message board after the squabble.
  • One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Posters of the sea and land.
  • (dated) A posthorse.
  • * C. Lever
  • Posters at full gallop.
  • An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
  • I saw a poster for it on the side of a bus.
  • A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
  • He has posters of his favorite band, sports teams and holiday resorts up.
  • (ice hockey, slang) A shot which only hits a goal post without going in
  • We got three posters in the third and lost.
    Derived terms
    * movie poster * OP * poster paint

    Etymology 2

    from to post (travel, dispatch) + -er

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A post-horse
  • (archaic) A swift traveler
  • Anagrams

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    advertising

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (wikipedia advertising)
  • Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
  • * Sir Walter Besant
  • Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about

    Derived terms

    * two-price advertising