Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To offer advice to; counsel.
- intransitive verb To recommend; suggest.
- intransitive verb To inform; notify.
- intransitive verb To offer advice.
- intransitive verb To take counsel; consult.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To look at; view.
- To give counsel to; offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed: as, I advise you to be cautious *** speculation.
- To recommend as wise, *** etc.; suggest as the proper course of action: as, under these circumstances we advise abstinence.
- To give information to; communicate notice to; make acquainted with: followed by of before the thing communicated: as, the merchants were advised of the risk.
- Synonyms To counsel, admonish, suggest (to), recommend (to).—4. To inform, apprise, acquaint.
- To deliberate; take thought; consider; reflect: sometimes used reflexively.
- To take counsel; join others in deliberating; seek the advice of another or others: followed by with: as, I shall advise with my friends as to what is to be done.
- To counsel; give advice: as, I will act as you advise.
- [Advise and its derivatives have been used by old writers in a number of other applications connected with the notions of seeing, viewing, reflecting, etc., suggested by the etymology.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
- transitive verb To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with
of before the thing communicated. - transitive verb [Obs.] to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider.
- transitive verb obsolete To consider; to deliberate.
- transitive verb To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by
with .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
look at,watch ; tosee . - verb transitive To give
advice to; to offer anopinion , asworthy orexpedient to befollowed ; tocounsel ; towarn . - verb transitive To give
information ornotice to; toinform ; — with of before the thingcommunicated . - verb intransitive To
consider , todeliberate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a proposal, declare a plan for something
- verb inform (somebody) of something
- verb give advice to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Although Consumers Union recommended that the label advise consumers to place generators at least 15 feet from a house or garage, the new label only tells consumers to place them “outside and far away from windows, doors, and vents.”
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Although Consumers Union recommended that the label advise consumers to place generators at least 15 feet from a house or garage, the new label only tells consumers to place them “outside and far away from windows, doors, and vents.”
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KAMBER: Well, I think again, I totally think that the president misunderstands what the term advise and consent is.
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Maybe this advise is a little too direct for the Australian market?
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I don't know about cutting across the top of the Sea of Cortez from San Diego .... but the usual advise is use US roads as long as you can and that means Nogales.
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Free advise is worth what you paid for it, I know, but your Mexican partner may have better luck working with Mexican landlords than you would have working with gringos.
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My advise is to withdraw and secure Pakistan and India to contain Talibans and Alqaida remnants within Afghanistan.
Obama: Decision on U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan 'soon' 2009
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Free advise is worth what you paid for it, I know, but your Mexican partner may have better luck working with Mexican landlords than you would have working with gringos.
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WHy would Republicans take advise from a Democrat?
Plouffe: Palin would be 'catastrophic' as 2012 GOP nominee 2009
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I don't know about cutting across the top of the Sea of Cortez from San Diego .... but the usual advise is use US roads as long as you can and that means Nogales.
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