Arrive vs Advert - What's the difference?
arrive | advert |
(copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
To obtain a level of success or fame.
* 2002 , Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)
To come; said of time.
To happen or occur.
* Waller
(archaic) To reach; to come to.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To bring to shore.
* Chapman
(British, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd
, work=BBC *{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
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:
As verbs the difference between arrive and advert
is that arrive is while advert is to turn attention.As a noun advert is
(british|informal) an advertisement, an ad.arrive
English
Verb
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. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
- Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
- Arrive at last the blessed goal.
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them
Usage notes
* Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, likely formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.Antonyms
* departadvert
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.