advice
noun
- form of relating personal or institutional opinions, belief systems, values, recommendations or guidance about certain situations relayed in some context to another person, group or party often offered as a guide to action and/or conduct
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ədˈvaɪs/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videō Latin vīsus Old French vis Old French avisbor. Middle English avys English advice From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, rebracketed from the phrase ce m'est a vis (“I think”, “it seems to me”, literally “it is to my view”), where vis is from Latin vīsus (“vision, sight”). The unhistoric -d- was introduced during the 15th century due to influence from advise and ad-, see advance. Doublet of aviso. See vision, and compare avise, advise. Mostly displaced native Old English rǣd (see modern rede).
- An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
“She was offered various pieces of advice on what to do.”
“My kids never listen to advice.”
- Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
“How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her?”
- Information or news given; intelligence.
“late advices from France”
- In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.
“An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank.”
“(g) A Reserve Bank will issue to each depositor following any transaction affecting book-entry securities maintained for such depositor under this part a confirmation thereof in the form of an advice (serially numbered or otherwise) which shall describe the amount and maturity date thereof, and include pertinent transaction data.”
- In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange.
“a letter of advice”
“the drawees acknowledged the receipt of the letter of advice of the nineteenth of December , and promised to honor the draft when presented”
- A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions.
“An advice issued by a Monitoring Committee could be applicable in a Dutch court”
“Any measure that is not a formal (binding) act within the meaning of article 189 EEC, such as for example an advice, is clearly outside the scope of the action.”
- Counseling to perform a specific legal act.
“An honest oath taken under advice of counsel, therefore, is not perjury”
- Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
- In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videō Latin vīsus Old French vis Old French avisbor. Middle English avys English advice From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, rebracketed from the phrase ce m'est a vis (“I think”, “it seems to me”, literally “it is to my view”), where vis is from Latin vīsus (“vision, sight”). The unhistoric -d- was introduced during the 15th century due to influence from advise and ad-, see advance. Doublet of aviso. See vision, and compare avise, advise. Mostly displaced native Old English rǣd (see modern rede).
- Misspelling of advise.