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Marquee vs Pavilion - What's the difference?

marquee | pavilion |

As nouns the difference between marquee and pavilion

is that marquee is a large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment while pavilion is an ornate tent.

As a verb pavilion is

to furnish with a pavilion.

marquee

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British, NZ) A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.
  • (US) A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.
  • (US) By generalization, used for lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.
  • (Internet) A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally.
  • (computing) In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
  • Rectangular Marquee Tool

    Synonyms

    * (lights that turn on and off in sequence) chase lights, chaser lights * (computing) marching ants

    pavilion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an ornate tent
  • a light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place
  • a structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc
  • (cricket) the building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals
  • a detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex
  • the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet
  • (anatomy) the cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle
  • (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
  • (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
  • (heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
  • A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
  • * Shelley
  • The pavilion of heaven is bare.

    Synonyms

    * (part of ear) auricle, pinna

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to furnish with a pavilion
  • to put inside a pavilion
  • (figuratively) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")
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