advert

This one's easy. An advert is an advertisement: just shorten advertisement, and you get advert. Of course, as a verb, to advert to something means to refer to it.

The noun advert (AD-vert) shows up mostly in England, where people use it interchangeably with advertisement. With the train going so fast, it was hard to read the advert posted along the track. Did you notice our new advert in the paper? No? Nobody else did either. We shouldn't have paid for those adverts. When your friends try to tell you that you drink too much, they might advert (ad-VERT) to your regular binges, barfing, and blackouts.

Primary Meanings of advert

1.	n	a public promotion of some product or service
2.	v	give heed (to)

Full Definitions of advert

n a public promotion of some product or service

Synonyms:: ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing

Types:: show 12 types...; hide 12 types...; direct mail
advertising sent directly to prospective customers via the mail; preview, prevue, trailer
an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future; advertorial
an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report; mailer
an advertisement that is sent by mail; newspaper ad, newspaper advertisement
a printed advertisement that is published in a newspaper; commercial, commercial message
a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television; bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway
an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; teaser
an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest; top billing
the advertisement of a star's name at the top of a theatrical poster; classified, classified ad, classified advertisement
a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type; infomercial, informercial
a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary; stuffer
an advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail

Type of:: packaging, promotion, promotional material, publicity
a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution

v give heed (to)

Synonyms:: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed

Types:: fixate
pay attention to exclusively and obsessively

Type of:: listen
hear with intention

v make reference to

Synonyms:: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; commend, remember
mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship; speak of the devil
mention someone's name who just then appears; remember
mention favorably, as in prayer; cite, quote
refer to for illustration or proof; touch on
refer to or discuss briefly; appeal, invoke
cite as an authority; resort to; namedrop
refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them; bring up, raise
put forward for consideration or discussion; drag up, dredge up
mention something unpleasant from the past; cross-refer
refer from one entry to another, as in catalogues, books, and lists

Type of:: have in mind, mean, think of
intend to refer to

v make a more or less disguised reference to

Synonyms:: allude, touch

: bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on
be relevant to

Type of:: hint, suggest
drop a hint; intimate by a hint

Primary Meanings of advert

n a public promotion of some product or service

v give heed (to)

v make reference to

v make a more or less disguised reference to

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