Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large tent, often with open sides, used chiefly for outdoor entertainment.
- noun A rooflike structure, often bearing a signboard, projecting over an entrance, as to a theater or hotel.
- adjective Exceptionally popular or skilled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tent of unusual size and elaborateness; an officer's field-tent; hence, a large tent or wooden structure erected for a temporary purpose, such as to accommodate a dinner-party on some public occasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, New Zealand A large
tent with open sides, used foroutdoors entertainment . - noun US A projecting
canopy over anentrance , especially one with asign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it. - noun US By generalization, used for lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.
- noun Internet A
banner on aweb page displaying text thatscrolls horizontally. - noun computing In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large and often sumptuous tent
- noun permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The Lusty Lady, the famous peepshow club on 1rst with the endlessly entertaining marquee, is closing.
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Certain marquee guys affect the play and effort of the rest of their defense.
Thomas Alter: The Bears Aren't Who We Thought They Were Thomas Alter 2010
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Certain marquee guys affect the play and effort of the rest of their defense.
Thomas Alter: The Bears Aren't Who We Thought They Were Thomas Alter 2010
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Certain marquee guys affect the play and effort of the rest of their defense.
Thomas Alter: The Bears Aren't Who We Thought They Were Thomas Alter 2010
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On the main marquee of these Games, they have been overshadowed by other individuals.
Memories of 2004 paved way for U.S. basketball gold rush 2008
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The tension builds up slowly but surely as the family arrive, the marquee is erected, the food is prepared, the flowers are arranged, the gifts are given all as the flashbacks gradually fill in more and more detail.
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The tension builds up slowly but surely as the family arrive, the marquee is erected, the food is prepared, the flowers are arranged, the gifts are given all as the flashbacks gradually fill in more and more detail.
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TUCHMAN (voice-over): This principal believes he these words he put on the word marquee: "The price of greatness is responsibility."
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Frustration in marquee events is familiar to Stewart, who endured an agonizing decade of near-misses in Indy cars and stock cars at Indianapolis Motor Speedway before finally conquering the track in the '05 Allstate 400.
Harvick denies Martin with dramatic victory at the Daytona 500 2007
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The tension builds up slowly but surely as the family arrive, the marquee is erected, the food is prepared, the flowers are arranged, the gifts are given all as the flashbacks gradually fill in more and more detail.
oroboros commented on the word marquee
SUPER-SLOW TENNIS MATCH
October 5, 2007
arby commented on the word marquee
BREAKING NEWS: ARBY LOVES THE MARQUEE TAG
October 5, 2007
arby commented on the word marquee
Too bad you can't reverse marquee - OR CAN YOU??? *dun dun DUN*
Signed, too lazy to Google
October 5, 2007
arby commented on the word marquee
HA! Oh yes you can, sirrah
I can FEEL Uselessness cringing from here.
ETA: Because I know you're all dying to know how I did it, here's the link:
http://www.draac.com/marquee.html
October 5, 2007
uselessness commented on the word marquee
I think it's hilarious that you know me so well. I've been more than cringing since oroboros' initial blink post, and now you've just pushed me
OVER THE EDGE!!
October 5, 2007
arby commented on the word marquee
Ha ha! It cracks me up how much you hate it. And I know most smrt people do! From this website on "sensible design":
"The dreaded blink tag is a sign that well-travelled web surfers take as 'avoid this page - the person that wrote it just learned HTML from a bubble gum wrapper.'"
October 5, 2007
seanahan commented on the word marquee
I'm feeling stabby again.
October 5, 2007
reesetee commented on the word marquee
I'm starting to feel your stabbiness, seanahan.
October 5, 2007
arby commented on the word marquee
*looks around innocently*
October 5, 2007
oroboros commented on the word marquee
Jeez y'all!! Everybody's gotta start somewhere...(for me it was on Wordie rather than Bubblegum HTML) hope you don't feel like once you've reached the peak of HTML and other suchlike stuff, you wanna pull the ladder up? Methinks youse doth protest toot much? No? Just a thought...
October 5, 2007
reesetee commented on the word marquee
Oroboros, I don't know a darn thing about this stuff! I just know that staring at scads of marquee text late at night is not good for the soul. ;-) Go on and marquee to your heart's desire, I say!
October 5, 2007
uselessness commented on the word marquee
The poor lad don't know what he's asking fer.
October 5, 2007
oroboros commented on the word marquee
I doubt it'll become a problem at Wordie. It's not like chocolate, you know. (Like, can't ever be too much chocolate!)
October 5, 2007
reesetee commented on the word marquee
Nothing is like chocolate.
October 5, 2007