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What's the difference between a banner and a poster?

What's the difference between a banner and a poster?

Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, what can be said to be a banner but not a poster, or a poster but not a banner, or either a poster or a banner is fine?
  

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Mary rakstija: [nq:1]What's the difference between a banner and a poster? Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, ... [/nq] Banner.

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  • Mary rakstija: [nq:1]What's the difference between a banner and a poster?
  • Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, ...
  • [/nq] Banner.
  • Poster.
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Mary rakstija:
[nq:1]What's the difference between a banner and a poster? Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, ... but not a poster, or a poster but not a banner, or either a poster or a banner is fine?[/nq]
Banner.
Poster.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]What's the difference between a banner and a poster? Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, ... but not a poster, or a poster but not a banner, or either a poster or a banner is fine?[/nq]
The main meaning of banner is a flag, viz. a
coloured or patterned textile that hangs free (and can move in the wind.) A poster is usually paper
stuck to a solid background.
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[nq:1]What's the difference between a banner and a poster? Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, ... but not a poster, or a poster but not a banner, or either a poster or a banner is fine?[/nq]
A banner is landscape and a poster is portrait.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[nq:1]What's the difference between a banner and a poster?[/nq]
A banner is attached at two corners and the other two float free; a poster is attached to a rigid surface at all four corners.

Usually, but not necessarily, a banner is considerably wider than t is high; a poster is usually higher than it is wide.

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
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[nq:1]What's the difference between a banner and a poster? Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, ... but not a poster, or a poster but not a banner, or either a poster or a banner is fine?[/nq]
A banner bans a poster's posts.

Jerry Friedman notes that the question has been answered by others.
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[nq:2]What's the difference between a banner and a poster?[/nq]
[nq:1]A banner is attached at two corners and the other two float free; a poster is attached to a rigid surface at all four corners.[/nq]
Would you describe as a "poster" something that is stretched across a street and attached at all four corners to buildings or poles on either side?

What about something attached to
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[nq:1]A secondary use of banner emerged with early computer printers, to mean a poster larger than one page, usually made by printing a roll of paper in "landscape" style.[/nq]
One suspects that this meaning has some connection to the earlier "banner headline" found in newspapers (i.e. one in large letters across the entire width of the page). The original transfer of meaning to computers must
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[nq:1]A secondary use of banner emerged with early computer printers, to mean a poster larger than one page, usually made by printing a roll of paper in "landscape" style.[/nq]
There are also banner ads, the horizontal format ad placed at the top of many ad-sponsored webpages.
jc
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[nq:1]Would you describe as a "poster" something that is stretched across a street and attached at all four corners to buildings or poles on either side?[/nq]
No, because it's attached to two rigid surfaces. :-)

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://oakroadsystems.com/
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