Advert vs Recur - What's the difference?
advert | recur |
(British, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
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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 .’
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To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.
*1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 43:
*:She only replied with a laugh, and he evidently deemed futile the bid for sympathy on the score of religious or irreligious fellowship, for he recurred to it no more.
To happen again.
(computing) To recurse.
As verbs the difference between advert and recur
is that advert is to turn attention while recur is to have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.As a noun advert
is (british|informal) an advertisement, an ad.advert
English
(wikipedia advert)Noun
(en noun)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. }}
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)- 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
* referDerived terms
* advertence * advertency * advertent * advertently * inadvertent * inadvertentlyrecur
English
Verb
(recurr)- The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
