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Advice vs Announce - What's the difference?

advice | announce |

As a noun advice

is an opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.

As a verb announce is

(label) to give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

advice

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
    • We may give advice , but we can not give conduct. — Franklin.
  • (obsolete) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
    • How shall I dote on her with more advice,''' That thus without '''advice begin to love her? — Shakespeare.
  • Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; commonly in the plural. In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice.
    • (McElrath)
  • (legal) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
    • (Wharton)
  • (computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.

    • Synonyms

    * counsel, suggestion, recommendation, admonition, exhortation, information, notice * See also

    Derived terms

    * advice boat * adviceful * avizefull

    Related terms

    * advise * adviso * aviso

    See also

    * advice boat * take advice

    References

    *

    announce

    English

    Verb

    (announc)
  • (label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
  • * (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)
    • Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • (label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
  • * (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
    • Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

    Synonyms

    * proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate

    Derived terms

    *

    References

    * English reporting verbs