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ADVERTISE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call attention to

Example:

Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS

Synonyms:

advertise; advertize; publicise; publicize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "advertise" is one way to...):

announce; denote (make known; make an announcement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "advertise"):

headline (publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline)

ballyhoo (advertize noisily or blatantly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

Example:

The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops

Synonyms:

advertise; advertize; promote; push

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "advertise" is one way to...):

praise (express approval of)

Verb group:

agitate; campaign; crusade; fight; press; push (exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "advertise"):

propagandise; propagandize (spread by propaganda)

plug (make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote)

bill (advertise especially by posters or placards)

agitate; campaign; crusade; fight; press; push (exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

advertisement (a public promotion of some product or service)

advertiser (someone whose business is advertising)

advertising (the business of drawing public attention to goods and services)

advertising (a public promotion of some product or service)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It was large for a wolf, its gaunt frame advertising the lines of an animal that was among the largest of its kind.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But I only mean to say that there are advertising offices, and that by applying to them I should have no doubt of very soon meeting with something that would do.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mr Shepherd had once mentioned the word "advertise," but never dared approach it again.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I often think I should like to, especially since my hair was cut, so if you ever miss us, you may advertise for two boys and look among the ships bound for India.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“By advertising,” said Mrs. Micawber—“in all the papers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is an inconceivable thing, but even our special war tax of fifty million, which one would think made our purpose as clear as if we had advertised it on the front page of the Times, has not roused these people from their slumbers.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he have an auction in that house, and advertise it, and put up big notice; and when the day come he sell off by a great auctioneer all the goods of that other man who own them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The underlying services oriented architecture that supports caBIG. caGrid defines two types of grid services that can be registered as nodes on the grid: Data Services and Analytical Services. caGrid provides a standard infrastructure for bioinformaticians to advertise their services thru common metadata defined in Unified Modeling Language (UML) domain information model. caGrid infrastructure also provides strong semantic specification thru binding to description logic terminology concepts that can be used by users to discover new and interesting scientific information using semantically aware searches.

(caGrid, NCI Thesaurus)

The cellar, indeed, was filled with crazy lumber, mostly dating from the times of the surgeon who was Jekyll’s predecessor; but even as they opened the door they were advertised of the uselessness of further search, by the fall of a perfect mat of cobweb which had for years sealed up the entrance.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)