different between listing vs advert

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?st??/
• Rhymes: -?st??

Adjective

listing (not comparable)

1. As listed or shown on a listing.

   What is this house's listing price?

Verb

listing

1. present participle of list

   The ship is listing heavily to one side.

Noun

listing (plural listings)

1. The action of the verb to list.
2. An entry in a list or directory.

   Aardvaark Plumbing is the first listing in Yellow Pages.

   1. An entry on a register of securities accepted for trading and quotation on a securities exchange or similar system.

      The company may even lose its listing on the stock exchange.

3. (computing) A printout of a program or data set.

   Print me a listing of the latest version.

4. A physical manifestation of a single item in a list.

   Please pass me the second listing for the two-story house, from that stack.

5. The act of ploughing with a lister.

References

• listing at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• silting, sliting, stiling, tilings

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of advertisement

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ædv??(?)t/

Noun

advert (plural adverts)

1. (Britain, informal) An advertisement, an ad.

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English adverten, from Old French advertir (“to notice”), from Latin advertere (“to turn toward”). See also adverse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?v??(?)t/

Verb

advert (third-person singular simple present adverts, present participle adverting, simple past and past participle adverted)

1. (intransitive) To take notice, to pay attention (to). [from 15th c.]
   • 2007 September 9, the Vatican (trans.), Pope Benedict XVI (speaker), speaking in German at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Austria:

     At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To turn attention to, to take notice of (something). [15th–19th c.]
3. (intransitive) To call attention, refer (to). [from 18th c.]
   • 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:

     ‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’

Synonyms

• refer

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• varted