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notice
English
Alternative forms
- not. (abbreviation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French notice, from the Latin notitia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n??t?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?no?t?s/, [?no???s]
- Hyphenation: no?tice
Noun
notice (countable and uncountable, plural notices)
- (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
- How ready is envy to mingle with the notices which we take of other persons?
- (countable) A written or printed announcement.
- (countable) A formal notification or warning.
- (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
- (countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
- 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920- (volume 18, page 167)
- The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave.
- 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920- (volume 18, page 167)
- (uncountable) Prior notification.
- (dated) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
Synonyms
- (attention): heed, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
notice (third-person singular simple present notices, present participle noticing, simple past and past participle noticed)
- (transitive, now rare) To remark upon; to mention. [from 17th c.]
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 88:
- Numberless are the arguments […] that men have used morally and physically, to degrade the sex. I must notice a few.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 88:
- (transitive) To become aware of; to observe. [from 17th c.]
- 1991, Gregory Widen, Backdraft
- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
- 1991, Gregory Widen, Backdraft
- (obsolete, transitive) To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably. [17th–19th c.]
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, vol. I, ch. 3
- She would notice her; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good society; she would form her opinions and her manners.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, vol. I, ch. 3
- (intransitive) To be noticeable; to show. [from 20th c.]
- 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 9:
- The blackness didn't notice so much when she was born; but it's unmistakeable now.
- 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 9:
Synonyms
- recognize
Antonyms
- ignore
- neglect
Translations
Anagrams
- conite, ecotin, neotic, noetic
French
Etymology
From Latin notitia
Noun
notice f (plural notices)
- instruction
- Avez-vous lu la notice avant de monter le meuble?
Further reading
- “notice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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demand
English
Alternative forms
- demaund, demaunde (obsolete)
Etymology
From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin d?mand?, d?mand?re.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??m??nd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??mænd/, /d??mænd/
- Rhymes: -??nd, -ænd
- Hyphenation: de?mand
Noun
demand (countable and uncountable, plural demands)
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
- A forceful claim for something.
- A requirement.
- An urgent request.
- An order.
- (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
Usage notes
One can also make demands on someone.
- See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of demand collocated with these words.
Synonyms
- (a requirement): imposition
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
demand (third-person singular simple present demands, present participle demanding, simple past and past participle demanded)
- To request forcefully.
- To claim a right to something.
- To ask forcefully for information.
- To require of someone.
- (law) To issue a summons to court.
Synonyms
- call for
- insist
- (ask strongly): frain
Translations
Anagrams
- Dedman, Madden, damned, madden, manded
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