Advert vs Advise - What's the difference?
advert | advise |
(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 give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with (m) before the thing communicated.
To consider, to deliberate.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. VIII, ''The Election
(obsolete) To look at, watch; to see.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
As verbs the difference between advert and advise
is that advert is to turn attention while advise is to give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed.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 * inadvertentlyadvise
English
Alternative forms
* advize (obsolete) * avise * avizeVerb
(advis)- The dentist advised brushing three times a day.
- We were advised of the risk.
- The lawyer advised me to drop the case, since there was no chance of winning.
- accordingly. His Majesty, advising of it for a moment, orders that Samson be brought in with the other Twelve.
- when that villain he auiz'd , which late / Affrighted had the fairest Florimell , / Full of fiers fury, and indignant hate, / To him he turned
