As verbs the difference between billed and announced
is that
billed is (
bill) while
announced is (
announce).
As an adjective billed
is having a specified kind of bill (beak or beak-like projection).
billed English
Verb
(head)
(bill)
Adjective
(-)
Having a specified kind of bill (beak or beak-like projection).
Derived terms
* duckbilled
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announced English
Verb
(head)
(announce)
announce English
Verb
( announc)
(label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
* (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)
- Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings
, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Obama goes troll-hunting
, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
(label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
- Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.
Synonyms
* proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate
Derived terms
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