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Definition: ADVISING |
ADVISINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Advise |
Date "ADVISING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Crosswords: ADVISING |
| English words defined with "ADVISING": guide ♦ To give ear to. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ADVISING": Advice of Shipment, Advised Credit, Advising Bank, all trunks busy signal, ATB signal ♦ BUSINESS MANAGER ♦ channel-busy tone, chase pilot, CODE INSPECTOR, congestion tone ♦ DIRECTOR, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, DISPATCHER, BUS AND TROLLEY, Drapier's Letters ♦ ELECTION ASSISTANT, election supervisor, employee relations administrator ♦ family physicia, FAMILY PRACTITIONER ♦ INVESTMENT ANALYST ♦ MANAGER, TRAVEL AGENCY ♦ National Research Council ♦ Office of the Parliamentarian ♦ reorder signal ♦ securities-research analyst, software patent ♦ transit-operations supervisor ♦ vice president, industrial relations. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Advising Michael (1997) | |
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![]() | Occupational therapists in the Philippines advising a mother on how to care for her son ... / WHO/UNICEF p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by A. Khan.. | ![]() | Veterinary advising on care and health of young calves. Fremont County, Idaho.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Sir Arthur Helps | The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I had no hesitation in advising him to marry. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | An old man, of thirty, was advising a young one, of eighteen, and explaining to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | They pushed off immediately, advising me to make haste, for fear of being overtaken by the tide, and so bade me farewell. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These special factors should be considered when advising elderly persons and pregnant women who plan visits to areas where Japanese encephalitis is endemic. (references) | |
Although patients should be as active as possible, clinicians may need to explain the disorder to employers and family members, advising them to make allowances as possible. (references) | ||
This means advising the patient not only of the short-term benefits and risks but also of long-term benefits and risks where known and addressing the issue of long-term relapse prevention. (references) | ||
Business | Registered foreign law firms in China are restricted to advising on the law of their own jurisdictions. (references) | |
Under the 1988 Telecommunications Act, the Telecommunications Authority is responsible for regulating the sector with the Telecommunications Advospry Council advising the minister on telecommunication policy. (references) | ||
When trying to enter the German fitness/sporting goods equipment market, foreign firms should consider making an appointment with an agent or distributor as their first step. A good distributor is a valuable source of market data and can also be helpful in advising foreign firms on appropriate pricing strategies. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | The Public Enterprise Office within Ministry of Public Enterprise is responsible for advising on the sale of the Law 203 companies. (references) |
Moldova | Peace Corps volunteers have been working in Moldova since 1993, with a focus on teaching English, advising small businesses, and NGO development, among other sectors. (references) | |
Vietnam | Although registered foreign law firms in Vietnam technically are restricted from advising on Vietnamese law, they are permitted to advise on foreign or international law. (references) | |
Political Rights | Yemen | Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on claims that the Supreme Elections Committee issued a directive advising and monitoring candidates to prevent campaigning for a "no" vote in the referendum; however, this allegation could not be confirmed. (references) |
Trade | South Africa | The advising bank should, if possible, be the same bank as the exporter's bank. (references) |
Zimbabwe | It is somewhat independent of government in exercising monetary controls and advising government on fighting inflation, including on occasion criticizing, for example, the GOZ's lack of fiscal discipline. (references) | |
Women | Guatemala | The Secretariat operates under the direction of the President, advising him on the coordination of policy affecting women and their development. (references) |
Worker Rights | Gabon | Strikes are legal if they are held after an 8-day notice advising that outside arbitration has failed. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ADVISING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.74% of the time. "ADVISING" is used about 486 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.74% | 475 | 12,481 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.23% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.21% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 486 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ADVISING": advising committee. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ADVISING": cross-advising. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ADVISING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 劝告 (Advise, Advised, hortative, hortatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | lægelig rådgivning (due teaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | explications données par le médecin au malade. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | ratend (counselling), anratend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | θεραπευτικαί οδηγίαι προς τον ασθενή (due teaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | וע"" מיעצת (advising committee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 보 (report, reporting, Treasuries, treasury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | coyrlee (advisory, consultant, counselling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | advisingay explicações dadas pelo médico ao doente (due teaching). (various references) povãţuire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | consiliarii, consiliariis, consiliario, consiliariorum, consiliarios, consiliarium, consiliarius. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "ADVISING": misadvising. (additional references) | |
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"ADVISING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adipsin, adversing, advicing, Advision. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ADVISING" (pronounced advī"zing) |
| 5 | -v ī" z i ng | devising, revising. |
| 4 | -ī" z i ng | arising, chastising, comprising, decriminalizing, disguising, rising, sensationalizing, sizing, surprising, unsurprising, uprising. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-i-n-s-v" | |
-1 letter: avidins, siganid, visaing. | |
-2 letters: aiding, avidin, divans, diving, saving, siding, viands, vising. | |
-3 letters: dangs, dings, divan, divas, gadis, gains, savin, vangs, viand, vigas, vinas. | |
-4 letters: agin, aids, ains, ands, anis, avid, dags, dais, dang, digs, ding, dins, diva, gadi, gads, gain, gids, gins, inia, nags, nidi, nisi, sadi, said, sain, sand, sang, sign, sing, snag, vagi, vain, vang, vans, viga, vigs, vina, visa. | |
-5 letters: ads, aid, ain, ais, and, ani, dag, dig, din, dis, gad, gan, gas, gid, gin, ids, ins, nag, sad, sag, sin, van, vas, via, vig, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-i-n-s-v" | |
+1 letter: dissaving. | |
+2 letters: disavowing, disvaluing. | |
+3 letters: advertising, designative, disfavoring, divagations, misadvising, vaginitides, vandalising. | |
+4 letters: advertisings, disapproving, investigated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 44 56 49 53 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. ...- .. ... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000100 01010110 01001001 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A D V I S I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0044 0056 0049 0053 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3538564353434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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