Notice vs Direction - What's the difference?
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The act of observing; perception.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
*:How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons?
(lb) A written or printed announcement.
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(lb) A formal notification or warning.
(senseid) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
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(lb) A published critical review of a play or the like.(rfex)
(lb) Prior notification.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Ihave given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here.
(lb) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
To observe or take notice of.
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, title= To detect; to perceive with the mind.
The action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.
* 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
Guidance, instruction.
The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
(archaic) An address.
* 1796 , , (The Monk) , Folio Society 1985, p. 218:
The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward or from which an object is moving.
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, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
Notice is a related term of direction.
As nouns the difference between notice and direction
is that notice is the act of observing; perception while direction is the action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.As a verb notice
is to observe or take notice of.notice
English
Noun
(en noun)- The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice .
Derived terms
* short noticeVerb
(notic)- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
Synonyms
* recognizeAntonyms
* ignore * neglectStatistics
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* 1000 English basic words ----direction
English
(wikipedia direction)Noun
(en noun)Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pp.284-5
- Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction .
- Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction .
- Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction .