Advertise
['ædvətaɪz] or ['ædvɚtaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) call attention to; 'Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS'.
(verb.) make publicity for; try to sell (a product); 'The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model'; 'The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops'.
Checker: Valerie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.
(v. t.) To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.
Checked by Cordelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Announce, publish, declare, promulgate, trumpet, proclaim, make known, spread abroad, noise abroad, give notice of, lay before the public, bring to the notice of the public, make proclamation of.[2]. Offer for sale.
Typed by Eliza
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Publish, inform, advise, circulate, announce, notify, proclaim, promulge
ANT:Suppress, hush, conceal, ignore, hoodwink, misguide, mislead, misinform
Typed by Aldo
Definition
v.t. to turn one's attention to: to inform: to give public information or announcement of: (obs.) to instruct.—ns. Advert′isement the act of advertising or making known: a public notice in a newspaper or periodical: notoriety: (obs.) news; Advertīs′er one who advertises: a paper in which advertisements are published.—p.adj. Advertīs′ing (Shak.) attentive.
Typist: Louis
Examples
- Did he not advertise? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At your peril you advertise! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Not to advertise: and to trust this quest of a situation to me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- No, sir; I am not on such terms with my relatives as would justify me in asking favours of them--but I shall advertise. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- After that the railroad company began to advertise these excursions, and the receipts each year paid for the observatory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He must have money to get the iron for his machines, to advertise, and to pay agents to try to sell them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He did advertise in the _Lexington Union_ in September, 1833, offering reapers for sale at fifty dollars; but there were no answers to his advertisements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A pretty list indeed, said Brougham, alluding to my characters, as advertised in the newspapers by Stockdale. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Hubbard had advertised Bell’s telephone, Sanders had financed it, and now Vail pushed it on the market. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He had it written up for the newspapers, and advertised public demonstrations of its powers, and arranged that Bell should lecture on it in different cities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- An invention of such great value to the farmer naturally advertised itself through the country districts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but without success. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was a morning concert advertised for to-morrow, and Samuel was ordered to take places for a large party, including a place for Mr. Ablewhite. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Hans said that she advertised one at Leipzig, and the Burschen took many tickets. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The quarters were small, the staff was composed of two men, and the entire work was confined to making photographs of the cars and parts for advertising literature. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Those firms which had not previously used direct-by-mail advertising were now coming to realize the many advantages of that modern selling short-cut and were compiling large lists of names. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency and have this put in the evening papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This interest was increased materially with the growth of mail-order businesses and the constantly increasing use of direct-by-mail advertising by business concerns, large and small. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I know nothing about advertising. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Now that a reliable formula is at hand a quantity of this Wonder Liniment can be prepared at a minimum cost without paying for bottles, labels, advertising, salaries, rents, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- And as to advertising the house, I think it would be perfectly degrading to you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Shelley