# notice
## English
### Alternative forms

* not. (abbreviation)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French notice, from the Latin nōtitia. Doublet of notitia.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnəʊtɪs/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈnoʊtɪs/, [ˈnoʊɾɪs]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊtɪs, (General American) -oʊtɪs
* Hyphenation: no‧tice

### Noun

notice (countable and uncountable, plural notices)
* (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
    He took no notice of the changes, and went on as though nothing had happened.
** 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
** 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:How ready is envy to mingle with the notices which we take of other persons?
* (countable) A written or printed announcement.
    Shall we post a notice about the new policy?
    I always read the death notices in the paper.
* (countable) A formal notification or warning.
    The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice.
* (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
    I gave her her mandatory two weeks' notice and sacked her.
    I can't work here any longer. I'm giving notice.
* (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.
* (uncountable) Prior notification.
    I don't mind if you want to change the venue; just give me some notice first, OK?
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:I have been with your father and given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here with him this night.
* (dated) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.

#### Synonyms

* (attention): heed, regard;see also Thesaurus:attention

#### Derived terms

* at a moment's notice
* at short notice
* black notice
* blue notice
* burn notice
* constructive notice
* DA-notice
* D-notice
* first notice day
* fixed penalty notice
* forenotice
* give notice
* give one's notice
* green notice
* judicial notice
* legal notice
* notice and comment
* notice board
* notice period
* on notice
* on short notice
* orange notice
* penal notice
* polite notice
* pre-notice
* private notice question
* purple notice
* reading notice
* red notice
* serve notice
* short notice
* sit up and take notice
* take no notice of
* take notice
* term of notice
* un-notice
* until further notice
* wanted notice
* yellow notice

#### 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.]
** 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:Numberless are the arguments […] that men have used morally and physically, to degrade the sex. I must notice a few.
* (transitive) To become aware of; to observe. [from 17th c.]
    Did you notice the flowers in her yard?
** 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?
** 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
* (obsolete, transitive) To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably. [17th–19th c.]
** 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 3, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC: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.
* (intransitive) To be noticeable; to show. [from 20th c.]
** 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 9:The blackness didn't notice so much when she was born; but it's unmistakeable now.

#### Synonyms

* recognize

#### Antonyms

* ignore
* neglect

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* conite, ecotin, neotic, noetic

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nōtitia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɔ.tis/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

notice f (plural notices)
* A set of instructions for that the assembling, functions, & maintenance of an appliance.
    Avez-vous lu la notice avant de monter le meuble?Did you read the instructions before building the item [of furniture]?
* (by extension) A short summary of a work or body of works.
* An explicatory text that introduces a work; a preface or introduction.
* (obsolete) A news article.

### References

* “notice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### References

* “notice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.