Advice vs Devise - What's the difference?
advice | devise |
An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
(obsolete) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
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.
(legal) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
(computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
* Bancroft
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To leave (property) in a will.
(archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
* Alexander Pope
(archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
The act of leaving real property in a will.
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
* Bancroft
The real property left in such a will.
In obsolete terms the difference between advice and devise
is that advice is deliberate consideration; knowledge while devise is to imagine; to guess.As nouns the difference between advice and devise
is that advice is an opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel while devise is the act of leaving real property in a will.As a verb devise is
to use one's intellect to plan or design (something).advice
English
Noun
(en-noun)- We may give advice , but we can not give conduct. — Franklin.
- How shall I dote on her with more advice,''' That thus without '''advice begin to love her? — Shakespeare.
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Synonyms
* counsel, suggestion, recommendation, admonition, exhortation, information, notice * See alsoDerived terms
* advice boat * adviceful * avizefullSee also
* advice boat * take adviceReferences
*devise
English
(wikipedia devise)Verb
(devis)- to devise''' an argument; to '''devise a machine, or a new system of writing
- devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
- Thus, the task of the linguist devising' a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to '''devise a ''finite'' set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an ''infinite set of well-formed sentences.
- I thought, devised , and Pallas heard my prayer.
- For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise .
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Noun
(en noun)- Fines upon devises were still exacted.