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单词 aviso
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avison.

Brit. /əˈvʌɪzəʊ/, U.S. /əˈvaɪzoʊ/
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish aviso.
Etymology: < Spanish aviso advice, intelligence (c1400), dispatch-boat, advice boat (1626) < Middle French avis advice n. Compare Portuguese aviso (see advice n.). With sense 1 compare earlier advice n. 7. With the phrases at sense 2 compare Spanish navio de aviso (1574), carabela de aviso (1579), barco de aviso (16th cent.), etc. With sense 3 compare earlier adviso n. 4 and advice n. 8.
Now historical.
1. A piece of intelligence or news; a report, a dispatch; (also) a piece of advice, an instruction. Cf. adviso n. 1, adviso n. 2. Obsolete.In quot. 1589 as the title of a manual for traders.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > [noun]
kithc900
avaymentc1315
learningc1386
information1390
knowledgea1398
witteringa1400
witting1417
advicec1425
hearinga1450
understanding1473
intelligence?a1475
intellectionc1475
wit1487
instructiona1535
myance1552
fact1566
aviso1589
facts and figures1727
tell1823
message1828
renseignement1841
khubber1878
dope1901
lowdown1905
info1907
poop1911
oil1915
score1938
gen1940
intel1961
scam1964
1589 J. Browne (title) The marchants auizo.
1597 R. Cecil & J. Herbert Let. 23 Mar. in T. Birch Hist. View Negotiations (1749) 123 Thus have we now delivered your Lordships an account..of the substance of our avisos.
1626 W. Vaughan Golden Fleece Pref. 4 Except you season your Auisoes with some light passages..& fancies..they will hardly yeeld due attention to your Counsels.
1626 (title) The third newes continued for this moneth of December... Vnto which you shall finde added, our speciall avisoes of priuate letters.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 6 His first act..was to dispatch Aviso's of his Father's decease to forein Princes.
1678 W. Sancroft Serm. House Peers 34 To wait..with Modesty, and Patience, what Avisoes, and Commands are sent you from thence.
2. caravel of aviso: a caravel used as a dispatch vessel (cf. advice n. Phrases 4, adviso n. 3). Similarly barque of aviso, etc. Obsolete.
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1596 W. Stallenge Let. 2 Aug. in Cal. MSS Marquis of Salisbury (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1895) VI. 315 There was four carvells of aviso despatched.
1600 tr. P. Diaz in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations III. 868 The Generall of the fleetes vseth continually..to send into Spaine a barke of Auiso, to aduertise the king of the state of his arriuall: And after the fleetes be ready to come home, hee dispatcheth another pinnesse of Auiso.
c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) ii. 147 Both this Fleet and Barke of Auiso were not sett out till the Spring was far spent.
3. A dispatch boat, an advice boat. Cf. advice n. 8, adviso n. 4.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > communication vessel or dispatch boat
patache1589
advicec1595
adviser?1616
adviso1624
advice boat1652
dispatch1694
aviso1714
dispatch-boat1794
dispatch-vessel1809
1714 Let. 3 June in C. King Brit. Merchant (1721) III. 225 There are at present in this Bay an Aviso or Pacquet-Boat, and four other Ships fitting for Vera-Crux.
1745 Scots Mag. Feb. 97/2 She sailed from the former place [sc. Cadiz] on the 17th of January, with two avisos, and two other ships for the West-Indies.
1812 Ann. Reg. 1811 Chron. 1/1 Captain Musquetie..sent..the aviso and pilot-boat the Duinker, to reconnoitre the vessel that had been wrecked.
1870 Daily News 16 Sept. The light frigates and a few avisos and gunboats.
1913 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. 39 384 The Chihaya, Yodo and Mogami, formerly classed as avisos, are now classified as first-class gunboats.
1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command v. 133 The rest of the squadron..: Sirius, Néréide, Otter, the brig Grappler.., and a couple of fore-and-aft-rigged avisoes.
1996 J. P. Harrison Mastering Sky viii. 104 Until the mid-1930s, the transit between Dakar and Natal, continued often to be made by avisos, as the boats were called.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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