Definition of "notice"

notice

/ˈnəʊtɪs/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural notices
1. (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
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  Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 16
  How ready is envy to mingle with the notices which we take of other persons?
  1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […]
2. (countable) A written or printed announcement.
3. (countable) A formal notification or warning.
4. (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
5. (countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
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  The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave.
  1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920-, volume 18, page 167
6. (uncountable) Prior notification.
  Quotations
  I have been with your father and given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here with him this night.
  c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
7. (dated) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
verb
third-person singular simple present notices, present participle noticing, simple past and past participle noticed
1. (transitive, now rare) To remark upon; to mention.
  Quotations
  Numberless are the arguments […] that men have used morally and physically, to degrade the sex. I must notice a few.
  1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792
2. (transitive) To become aware of; to observe.
  Quotations
  So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
  1991, Gregory Widen, Backdraft
  [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
  2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
3. (obsolete, transitive) To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably.
  Quotations
  She would notice her; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good society; she would form her opinions and her manners.
  1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 3, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray
4. (intransitive) To be noticeable; to show.
  Quotations
  The blackness didn't notice so much when she was born; but it's unmistakeable now.
  1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 9

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