| 单词 | advert |
| 释义 | advert (once / 1165 pages) 1n 2v This one's easy. An advert is an advertisement: just shorten advertisement, and you get advert. Of course, as a verb, to advert to something means to refer to it. The noun advert (AD-vert) shows up mostly in England, where people use it interchangeably with advertisement. With the train going so fast, it was hard to read the advert posted along the track. Did you notice our new advert in the paper? No? Nobody else did either. We shouldn't have paid for those adverts. When your friends try to tell you that you drink too much, they might advert (ad-VERT) to your regular binges, barfing, and blackouts. WORD FAMILYadvert: adverted, advertence, advertency, advertent, adverting, adverts+/advertent: advertently, inadvertent/inadvertence: inadvertences/inadvertency: inadvertencies/inadvertent: inadvertence, inadvertency, inadvertently USAGE EXAMPLESBillboards, TV and radio adverts all portrayed him as the face of a state hungry for success and growth. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Local authorities also ask to scrutinize all evangelical material, including adverts for charity events, according to Catholic faithful. Reuters(Dec 23, 2016) There are also the made-up adverts that air in between the discussion. The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) 1 n a public promotion of some product or service 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing direct mail advertising sent directly to prospective customers via the mail preview, prevue, traileran advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future advertorialan advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report maileran advertisement that is sent by mail newspaper ad, newspaper advertisementa printed advertisement that is published in a newspaper commercial, commercial messagea commercially sponsored ad on radio or television bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwawayan advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution teaseran advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest top billingthe advertisement of a star's name at the top of a theatrical poster classified, classified ad, classified advertisementa short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type infomercial, informerciala television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary stufferan advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail packaging, promotion, promotional material, publicity a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution 1v give heed (to) Syn|Hypo|Hyper attend, give ear, hang, pay heed fixate pay attention to exclusively and obsessively listen hear with intention 2v make reference to Syn|Hypo|Hyper bring up, cite, mention, name, refer commend, remember mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship speak of the devilmention someone's name who just then appears remembermention favorably, as in prayer cite, quoterefer to for illustration or proof touch onrefer to or discuss briefly appeal, invokecite as an authority; resort to namedroprefer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them bring up, raiseput forward for consideration or discussion drag up, dredge upmention something unpleasant from the past cross-referrefer from one entry to another, as in catalogues, books, and lists have in mind, mean, think of intend to refer to 3v make a more or less disguised reference to Syn|Hyper allude, touch bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on be relevant to hint, suggest drop a hint; intimate by a hint |
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