Word Finder - notice

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The act of observing; perception.

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He took no notice of the changes, and went on as though nothing had happened.

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A written or printed announcement.

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I always read the death notices in the paper.

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A formal notification or warning.

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The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice.

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Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.

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I can't work here any longer. I'm giving notice.

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A published critical review of a play or the like.

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Prior notification.

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I don't mind if you want to change the venue; just give me some notice first, OK?

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Attention; respectful treatment; civility.

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To remark upon; to mention.

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To become aware of; to observe.

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Did you notice the flowers in her yard?

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To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably.

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To be noticeable; to show.

I didn't notice how far I was wandering this evening.

Others don't notice it, but I see it.

She did not notice him.

Carmen glanced at Alex, but he either didn't notice her attention, or he was avoiding her eyes.

Felipa didn't seem to notice anything unusual in his attitude, so maybe he had always treated them that way.

Her father would notice her absence.

Now go, my love, before they notice you're gone.

Did you notice Mrs. Shipton's son had a different last name?

He changed so gradually, he didn't notice how much different he'd become, until he realized how much he was enjoying talking to his friend.

With the creatures too distracted to notice her, Katie drew a breath and darted across the hall, shoving the door of the guest bedroom open.

He didn't just notice she was gone --he found himself wishing she wasn't.

No one any longer took notice of Pierre.

So absorbed was she in thought that she didn't notice when he entered the room behind her.

Nishani was concentrating too hard to notice him when he entered.

I wanted you to notice me – romance me like you used to.

In fact, he didn't seem to notice that it embarrassed her.

Thankfully, Deidre was too upset to notice his tension.

Why didn't anyone notice the coolness between them?

Here we may notice that there are eight circles which solve the problem.

As a source for the text it is superseded by the printed edition, and if there is more than one, then by the latest printed edition, which has been revised in proof by the author, or, in certain cases, by his representative; and the task of the textual critic is restricted to the detection of "misprints," in other words, of errors which the compositor (the modern analogue to the scribe) has made in "setting up" the manuscript, and which have escaped the notice of the proof-reader and the author or his representative.

Trifling acts of her father are described at length in exaggerated terms, while little notice is taken of important constitutional matters.

A law forbidding under severe penalties a labourer from hiring himself to a second employer without giving notice of a prior contract, and an employer from hiring a labourer known by him to be bound by such a contract, had aided in the development of the system, though it had been enacted for a different purpose.

Would someone like Gabriel notice her, if they crossed paths as random strangers at the festival?

Did he notice the tremor in her voice?

Of the writers of this period, therefore, it is necessary to notice only such as describe some improvement in the modes of culture, or some extension of the practices that were formerly little known.

It is important to notice that the figures relating to total production and yield per acre are only estimates, and it is not claimed for them that they are anything more.

With this view he studied the latter most laboriously, and in some measure certainly not without success, for he brought into prominence several points that had hitherto escaped the notice of his predecessors.

The common law doctrine of a six months' notice being required to terminate a tenancy from year to year of a corporeal hereditament, does not apply to an incorporeal hereditament such as a right to shoot.

Questions of considerable importance frequently arise as to the notice necessary to terminate tenancies of this character.

But later, with the growing claims of the individual and the acknowledgment of these in the religious and intellectual life, both problems, and especially the latter, pressed themselves irresistibly on the notice of religious thinkers, and made it impossible for any conception of the divine rule and righteousness to gain acceptance, which did not render adequate satisfaction to the claims of both problems. To render such satisfaction was the task undertaken by apocalyptic, as well as to vindicate the righteousness of God alike in respect of the individual and of the nation.

We have next to notice three important facts in electrostatics and some consequences flowing therefrom.

His miscellaneous works were published in 1737 by Dr Thomas Birch, with a biographical notice of the author.

Soon, as the natural consequence of these proceedings, a variety of cases had come under his notice.

Not less worthy of notice in a literary history is the good sense by which both his learning and his tastes have been held in control.

A complete summary of the great developments of mathematical learning, which the members of this family effected, lies outside the scope of this notice.

A fortunate accident which brought him under the notice of a neighbouring nobleman, Freiherr von Miltitz, was the means of procuring him a more excellent education than his father's circumstances would have allowed.

Even the hastiest survey of that long and interesting period enables the student to notice a marked development in the theory and practice of excommunication.

In terms of a treaty concluded in 1867 for ten years, renewed in 1877 for a similar period, and continued in 1887 with the proviso that it should be terminable on two years' notice, the finances and the entire government of Waldeck-Pyrmont are managed by Prussia, the little country having found itself unable to support unassisted the military and other burdens involved by its share in the North German Confederation of 1867-187 r and subsequently as a constituent state of the German empire.

He was the author of the De mensura orbis terrae, finished in 825, which contains the earliest clear notice of a European discovery of and settlement in Iceland and the most definite Western reference to the old freshwater canal between the Nile and the Red Sea, finally blocked up in 767.

The custom of delivering expositions or comments more or less extemporaneous on the lessons of the day at all events passed over soon and readily into the Christian Church, as may be gathered from the first Apology (c. 67) of Justin Martyr, where we read that, in connexion with the practice of reading portions from the collected writings of the prophets and from the memoirs of the apostles, it had by that time become usual for the presiding minister to deliver a discourse in which "he admonishes the people, stirring them up to an imitation of the good works which have been brought before their notice."

In confirmation of this view, it may be noted that the authority of Herodotus for the circumstances of the great Persian war, and for all local and other details which come under his immediate notice, is accepted by even the most sceptical of modern historians, and forms the basis of their narratives.

Of poisonous plants only the berries of the tutu and the karaka are worth notice.

It was assumed that the individual members of society, by express or implied pact, agree to obey some person or persons; sometimes it is described as an unqualified handing over; sometimes it is a transfer subject to qualifications, and with notice that in certain contingencies this will be withdrawn.

A variety of reasons were leading to a rupture in the harmonious relations between Frederick and Henry, whose increasing power could not escape the emperor's notice, and who showed little inclination to sacrifice his interests in Germany in order to help the imperial cause in Italy.

It does not fall within the scope of this article to examine the validity of these conclusions, nor even to notice the various subsidiary or consequential conclusions.

When the Finance Bill went up to the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne gave notice that on the second reading he would move "that this House is not justified in giving its consent to this bill until it has been submitted to the judgment of the country," and on the last day of November this motion was carried by an overwhelming majority of peers.

In literature it is constantly referred to; but we may notice the "general mina" (Cleopatra), in Egypt, 16 unciae=6600; the Ptolemaic talent, equal to the Attic in weight and divisions (Hero, Didymus); the Antiochian talent, equal to the Attic (Hero); the treaty of the Romans with Antiochus, naming talents of 80 librae, i.e.

Smith had omitted the paragraph in question (an omission which had escaped notice for twenty years) on the ground that it was unnecessary and misplaced; but Magee suspected him of having been influenced by deeper reasons.

And,, secondly, with a laborious zeal then less common than now among, n 2 (I - K 2) = 2 n 2 = n 2 = I historians, he sought to bring to light fresh historical material by patient search for letters, diaries and other manuscripts of value which had escaped the notice of previous students.

Hanging Rock, Ninety-Six, Rocky Mount and other affairs brought their prowess and devotion into notice.