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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recommendation |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advisement, advocacy, aid, bum steer, caution, charge, consultation, counsel, directions, dissuasion, encouragement, exhortation, forewarning, guidance, help, information, injunction, input, instruction, judgment, lesson, news, opinion, persuasion, prescription, proposal, proposition, recommendation, steer, suggestion, teaching, telltale, tidings, tip, tip-off, two cents' worth, view, warning, word, word to the wise |
| Notes: | advise (verb) means 'to offer advice to or counsel'; advice (noun) is an opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem |
| Antonyms: | betrayal, deceit, deception, falsehood, lie, misinformation, misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | contribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift, offering |
| Synonyms: | a hand, addition, alms, augmentation, benefaction, beneficence, bestowal, charity, do one's part, donation, gifting, grant, handout, helping hand, improvement, increase, input, present, significant addition, subscription, supplement, write-off |
| Main Entry: | data |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information in visible form |
| Synonyms: | abstracts, brass tacks, chapter and verse, circumstances, compilations, conclusions, details, documents, dope, dossier, evidence, experiments, facts, figures, goods, info, input, knowledge, materials, measurements, memorandums, notes, picture, proof, reports, results, scoop, score, statistics, testimony, whole story |
| Notes: | data (plural noun) is a collection of facts, observations, or measurements from which conclusions may be drawn while datum (singular noun) is an item of factual information derived from measurement or research |
| Main Entry: | download |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | transfer data from one computer system to another |
| Synonyms: | boot up, compute, computerize, crunch numbers, digitize, initialize, input, key in, keyboard, load, log in, log out, program, run |
| Main Entry: | intake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consumption |
| Synonyms: | absorption, admission, input, profit, taking in |
| Main Entry: | obiter dictum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comment |
| Synonyms: | animadversion, annotation, backtalk, buzz*, comeback*, commentary, crack*, criticism, dictum, discussion, editorial, elucidation, exposition, footnote, gloss, hearsay, illustration, input, judgment, mention, mouthful, note, obiter, observation, opinion, remark, report, review, two cents' worth, wisecrack |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | advice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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admonitory, consiliary, dehortatory, hortative, hortatory, officious, paramuthetic, parenetic, proceleusmatic, recommendatory, suggestible
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| Concept: | Advice. |
| Category: | 2. Complex voluntary action |
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-nouns
advice, counsel, adhortation; word to the wise; suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy; advisemement., exhortation (persuasion); expostulation (dissuasion); admonition (warning); guidance (direction)., instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation; Governor's message, President's message; King's message, Queen's speech; message, speech from the throne., adviser, prompter; counsel, counselor; monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator; teacher., guide, manual, chart (information)., physician, leech, archiater., arbiter (judge)., reference, referment; consultation, conference, pourparler.
-verbs
advise, counsel; give advice, give counsel, give a piece of advice; suggest, prompt, submonish, recommend, prescribe, advocate; exhort (persuade)., enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon (request); dictate., expostulate (dissuade); admonish (warn)., advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with., confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.
-adjectives
-phrases
"give every man thine ear but few thy voice" [Hamlet]; "I pray thee cease thy counsel" [Much Ado About Nothing]; "my guide, philosopher, and friend" [Pope]; "'twas good advice and meant, my son be good" [Crabbe]; verbum sat sapienti; vive memor leti; "we, ask advice but we mean approbation"
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