different between advise vs explain

English

Alternative forms

• advize (obsolete)
• avise [13th–16th c.]
• avize [16th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English avisen (“to perceive, consider, inform”), from Old French aviser, from avis, or from Late Latin advis?, from ad + vis?, from Latin vide? (“to see”), visum (“past participle of vide?”). See also advice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?va?z/
• Hyphenation: ad?vise
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

advise (third-person singular simple present advises, present participle advising, simple past and past participle advised)

1. (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
2. (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.

3. (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.

4. (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To look at, watch; to see.
6. (obsolete, intransitive) To consult (with).

Conjugation

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• (to offer an opinion): counsel, warn; See also Thesaurus:advise
• (to give information or notice): inform, notify; See also Thesaurus:inform

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Davies, avised, davies, visaed

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?adva?z/

Verb

advise (third-person singular present advises, present participle advisin, past advised, past participle advised)

1. to advise
2. to consider
3. to review

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

From Middle English explanen, from Old French explaner, from Latin explan? (“I flatten, spread out, make plain or clear, explain”), from ex- (“out”) + plan? (“I flatten, make level”), from planus (“level, plain”); see plain and plane. Compare esplanade, splanade. Displaced Old English ?ere??an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sple?n/, /?k?sple?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

explain (third-person singular simple present explains, present participle explaining, simple past and past participle explained)

1. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
2. To give a valid excuse for past behavior.
3. (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
4. (obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
   • April 14, 1684, John Evelyn, a letter sent to the Royal Society concerning the damage done to his gardens by the preceding winter

     The horse-chestnut is […] ready to explain its leaf.

5. (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.

Synonyms

• (give a sufficiently detailed report): expound, elaborate, recce

Derived terms

• afore-explained
• explain away
• explainer
• mansplain
• please explain
• -splain

Related terms

• explanation
• explanatory

Translations

Further reading

• explain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• explain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• explain at OneLook Dictionary Search