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Word Meanings - ADVERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said. I may again advert to the distinction. Owen. Syn.- To refer; allude; regard. See Refer.

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  • THINKING
    Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
  • ASSIGNEE
    In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
  • DIVORCEABLE
    Capable of being divorced.
  • EXHIBITION
    The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
  • CONNECTOR
    One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
  • PONDEROUS
    1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
  • APPEALER
    One who makes an appeal.
  • CONSIDERINGLY
    With consideration or deliberation.
  • EXHIBITIONER
    One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
  • CONTEMPLATE
    contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
  • DISSEVER
    To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
  • PONDERARY
    Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
  • REFER
    1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
  • COGITATE
    To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co-
  • DISSOCIATE
    To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward. (more info)
  • REFERENTIAL
    Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
  • APPEAL
    appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • DISCONNECT
    To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
  • DISCONNECTION
    The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
  • EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
    Equality of weight; equipoise.
  • SUPERREFLECTION
    The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • UNCONSIDERED
    Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
  • MISTHINK
    To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
  • PREPONDERATINGLY
    In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
  • PREFERMENT
    1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
  • INCONSIDERATION
    Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.

 

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