Dictionary Definition

advise

1 give advice to; "The teacher counsels troubled students"; "The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud" [syn: counsel]

2 give information or notice to; "I advised him that the rent was due" [syn: notify, give notice, send word, apprise, apprize]

3 make a proposal, declare a plan for something [syn: propose, suggest]

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avisen < aviser < lang=la < ad + visare < videre, visum. See also advice.

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated.

we were advised of the risk.

This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

to give advice to; to offer an opinion; to counsel; to warn

to give information or notice to; to inform

Advice may refer to:

Advice (opinion), an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct.
Advice (constitutional), in constitutional law, a frequently binding instruction issued to a constitutional office-holder
Advice in aspect-oriented programming, a piece of code executed when a join point is reached
Advice (complexity), in complexity theory, a string with extra information used by Turing machine or other computing device
Pay advice, whereby employees are informed of having received directly deposited pay
Legal advice, the giving of a formal and binding opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law
Advice column, a regular feature in a newspaper or magazine

advise in Simple English: Advice

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