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ADVISING

Definition: ADVISING

ADVISING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Advise

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ADVISING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)



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Crosswords: ADVISING

English words defined with "ADVISING": guideTo give ear to. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ADVISING": Advice of Shipment, Advised Credit, Advising Bank, all trunks busy signal, ATB signalBUSINESS MANAGERchannel-busy tone, chase pilot, CODE INSPECTOR, congestion toneDIRECTOR, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, DISPATCHER, BUS AND TROLLEY, Drapier's LettersELECTION ASSISTANT, election supervisor, employee relations administratorfamily physicia, FAMILY PRACTITIONERINVESTMENT ANALYSTMANAGER, TRAVEL AGENCYNational Research CouncilOffice of the Parliamentarianreorder signalsecurities-research analyst, software patenttransit-operations supervisorvice president, industrial relations. (references)

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Modern Usage: ADVISING

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Advising Michael (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ADVISING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Academic Advising for Student Success : A System of Shared Responsibility (reference)

  • Advising and Supporting Teachers (reference)

  • Advising Entrepreneurs : Dynamic Strategies for Financial Growth [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Advising Student Athletes Through the College Recruitment Process: A Complete Guide for Counselors, Coaches and Parents (reference)

  • Advising Student Groups and Organizations, 8.5 X 11 (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: ADVISING

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Photo Album: ADVISING

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: ADVISING

AuthorQuotation

Sir Arthur Helps

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: ADVISING

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ADVISING

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: ADVISING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)97.74%47512,481
Noun (proper)1.23%6143,867
Noun (singular)0.41%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)0.41%2245,945
Noun (common)0.21%1339,140
                    Total100.00%486N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ADVISING

Expression using "ADVISING": advising committee. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ADVISING": cross-advising.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ADVISING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

advising

15

academic advising

15

financial advising

10

advising audit committee katz lipton rosen today wachtell

7

advising counseling investment

6

advising center

5

advising services sourcing

5

advising college

4

advising technology

4

advising.ku.edu orientation

4

advising career

4

advising financial role

4

advising summer

3

advising davis summer uc

3

advising lynn.edu

3

advising management rental

3

advising growth professional technology

3

advising fiu.edu

3

advising online

2

advising dogdays studentaffairs.csufresno.edu

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ADVISING

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 

  

(report, reporting, Treasuries, treasury). (various references)

   

Manx

  

coyrlee (advisory, consultant, counselling). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

advisingay

   

Portuguese

  

explicações dadas pelo médico ao doente (due teaching). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

povãţuire. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ADVISING

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

consiliarii, consiliariis, consiliario, consiliariorum, consiliarios, consiliarium, consiliarius. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ADVISING

Derivations

Words ending with "ADVISING": misadvising. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "ADVISING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ADVISING" (pronounced advī"zing)
5-v ī" z i ngdevising, revising.
4-ī" z i ngarising, chastising, comprising, decriminalizing, disguising, rising, sensationalizing, sizing, surprising, unsurprising, uprising.
3-z i ngabusing, 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.

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Anagrams: ADVISING

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ADVISING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 56 49 53 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    ...-    ..    ...    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 01010110 01001001 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#86 &#73 &#83 &#73 &#78 &#71

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3538564353434841

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INDEX

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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