advert
a public promotion of some product or service
• Syn:
ad, advertisement, advertizement, advertising, advertizing
• Derivationally related forms:
advertise (for: advertising), advertize (for: advertizement), advertise (for: advertisement)
• Hypernyms:
promotion, publicity, promotional material, packaging
• Hyponyms:
direct mail, preview, prevue, trailer, advertorial,
mailer, newspaper ad, newspaper advertisement, commercial, commercial message, circular,
handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer,
throwaway, teaser, top billing
1. give heed (to)
- The children in the audience attended the recital quietly
- She hung on his every word
- They attended to everything he said
• Syn:
attend, hang, pay heed, give ear
• Derivationally related forms:
advertent, advertency, advertence, attentive (for: attend), attention (for: attend), attender (for: attend)
• Hypernyms:
listen
• Hyponyms:
fixate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP (for: hang)
2. make a more or less disguised reference to
- He alluded to the problem but did not mention it
• Syn:
allude, touch
• Derivationally related forms:
allusive (for: allude), allusion (for: allude)
• Hypernyms:
hint, suggest
• Verb Group:
refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to,
bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with
• Entailment:
denote, refer
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
3. make reference to
- His name was mentioned in connection with the invention
• Syn:
mention, bring up, cite, name, refer
• Derivationally related forms:
reference (for: refer), name (for: name), naming (for: name), citation (for: cite), mention (for: mention), mentioner (for: mention)
• Hypernyms:
think of, have in mind, mean
• Hyponyms:
commend, remember, speak of the devil, quote, cite,
touch on, invoke, appeal, namedrop, raise, bring up,
drag up, dredge up, cross-refer
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Something is ----ing PP (for: refer)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: refer)
- Somebody ----s PP
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