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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