notice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French notice, from the Latin nōtitia. Doublet of notitia.
Inflected forms:
form: notices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: not.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: notices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: noticing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: noticed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: noticed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: not.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The act of observing; perception.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He took no notice of the changes, and went on as though nothing had happened.
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.
How ready is envy to mingle with the notices which we take of other persons?
gloss: A written or printed announcement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A series of notices signpost patients to the X-ray department.
A notice was attached to the building reminding the residents about the five hour water shortage that was happening today.
I always read the death notices in the paper.
gloss: A formal notification or warning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice.
gloss: Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I gave her her mandatory two weeks' notice and sacked her.
I can't work here any longer. I'm giving notice.
gloss: A published critical review of a play or the like.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: Prior notification.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I don't mind if you want to change the venue; just give me some notice first, OK?
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.
gloss: Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: To remark upon; to mention.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Numberless are the arguments […] that men have used morally and physically, to degrade the sex. I must notice a few.
gloss: To become aware of; to observe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Did you notice the flowers in her yard?
So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.
[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, […].
gloss: To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To be noticeable; to show.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The blackness didn't notice so much when she was born; but it's unmistakeable now.
gloss: To perceive Jewish influence or responsibility.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
intransitive
slur
examples: Coordinate term: pattern noticer
Noticing is antiseptic.
Synonyms: regard
recognize
Antonyms: ignore
neglect
Derived words: noticeability
noticer
unnotice
unnoticed
unnoticing
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