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Promote vs Advert - What's the difference?

promote | advert |

As verbs the difference between promote and advert

is that promote is to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank while advert is to turn attention.

As a noun advert is

(british|informal) an advertisement, an ad.

promote

English

Verb

(promot)
  • To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
  • He promoted his clerk to office manager.
    Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
  • To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
  • They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
    They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
  • To encourage, urge or incite
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end}}
  • To elevate to the above league.
  • At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
  • (label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure
  • (label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank
  • Antonyms

    * (raise rank) demote * (advocate or urge on behalf of) denigrate, oppose

    Anagrams

    * * English transitive verbs ----

    advert

    English

    (wikipedia advert)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd
  • , work=BBC citation , passage=This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period. }}
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
  • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To turn attention.
  • To call attention, refer; construed with to.
  • *1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:
  • *:‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert .’
  • * 2007 September 9, the , Austria:
  • At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.

    Synonyms

    * refer

    Derived terms

    * advertence * advertency * advertent * advertently * inadvertent * inadvertently