(v. i.) To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Carlsberg made adverts for football scouts ... Scott Murray Martial, who could potentially cost Manchester United £58.8m, had quite a bit to prove.
(2) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
(3) • MPs heard that payday lenders are targeting young children with their TV adverts.
(4) Republican hopeful Donald Trump has launched a US presidential campaign advert attacking Barack Obama for supposedly prioritising Star Wars over the battle against terrorism.
(5) 'No social housing' boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors Read more Only by rebalancing housing provision can we avoid another bursting property bubble.
(6) His committee had spent only $75,000, which included adverts in media outlets read by members of Congress and their staff.
(7) It's also the first of two adverts in this week's collection featuring the classic song My Way.
(8) The advert provoked a backlash from pro-EU campaigners and MPs, as well as claims of Islamophobia from Twitter users, some of whom said they were planning to report the party to Ofcom.
(9) A new advert from department store BHS has prompted debate over the way it portrays working women.
(10) "Every parent's worst nightmare," begins the advert.
(11) Now broadcast globally to 200 countries, the Premier League is considered a great advert for Britain, with the prime minister, David Cameron, inviting the league's chief executive, Richard Scudamore, on several of his trade trips.
(12) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
(13) In a letter to Field, the Department for Work and Pensions revealed that more than 352,659 job adverts might be in breach of the Universal Jobmatch website's terms and conditions.
(14) In Dublin, the general mood was summed up by the Evening Herald headline, referring to a slogan from an car advert featuring Henry: "It's Va Va Gloom".
(15) In 2007, Eurostar ran adverts in Belgium for its trains to London depicting a tattooed skinhead urinating into a china teacup.
(16) is exactly the kind of ridiculous army recruitment advert of a chant that you would expect from our cousins across the Atlantic.
(17) On launching the app for first time an advert fills the screen; tapping the cross to close it releases a second advert promoting other games made by the same developer.
(18) The stunning Mattmark lake above Saas Almagell The scenery is like I'd imagine a TV advert for anti-depressants.
(19) The animated advert cost £1m to make and features a hare and a bear created by some of the artists behind Disney's Lion King.
(20) Steve Hilton, a former ad man responsible for the Conservatives' disastrous "demon eyes" advert, and now the special adviser to Lord Saatchi, is the final member of the set's inner circle, though he lives in north London.
Inadvertent
Definition:
(a.) Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous studies have shown that immunosuppressive therapy permits the growth and spread of inadvertently transplanted malignant cells in man, and, in addition, is associated with a 5 to 6% incidence of de novo cancers in organ homograft recipients who were apparently free of cancer before and at the time of transplantation.
(2) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(3) Despite end-tidal CO2 monitoring, five children inadvertently developed PaCO2 greater than 50 torr during the study.
(4) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
(5) 203 children born to women inadvertently treated during pregnancy were identified.
(6) Decreasing inadvertent PEEP by lengthening the expiratory time increased the compliance of the respiratory system (r = -0.74, n = 10, P less than 0.02).
(7) Eleven cases of inadvertent catheter insertion into the small bowel or stomach during percutaneous abdominal abscess drainage are reviewed.
(8) Five patients (1.8%) who inadvertently removed their gastrostomy tube within seven days of insertion were treated with immediate replacement using the retrograde string technique, avoiding laparotomy.
(9) However, of the four children with a residual gradient greater than 20 mm Hg, two were the youngest in the study, and in two the aorta was inadvertently dilated with a balloon 4 to 5 mm smaller than the isthmus diameter.
(10) Kipling deliberately concealed something of himself, but did not seek to conceal the truth about the nature of imperial power; Wodehouse exposed himself, and thereby inadvertently exposed something of the double standards of the system of power in which he unthinkingly believed.
(11) Four patients are described who experienced an acute episode of eczematous dermatitis of the scrotum where 5-fluorouracil (Efudex) cream had inadvertently been applied in the course of treating warts and keratoses.
(12) We describe the first reported case of inadvertent anastomosis of the left internal mammary artery to cardiac vein.
(13) Examples of drugs for which it may be undesirable to inadvertently increase plasma concentrations include warfarin, theophylline and phenytoin.
(14) These results confirm the biologic efficacy of local cooling and clearly contra-indicate the use of local heating to treat inadvertent DOX extravasations in the clinic.
(15) Mohan also said it amounted to an "innocuous British institution", a phrase that inadvertently emphasised its anachronistic nature.
(16) We propose inadvertent excision of the lateral portion of the inferior rectus muscle during inferior oblique myectomy as the probable mechanism of inferior rectus injury.
(17) Salicylates used for rheumatoid arthritis, or in inadvertently high dosages by patients themselves, often cause toxicity manifested by tinnitus, hearing impairment, and imbalance.
(18) On discontinuation of the agent, the liver damage disappeared, relapsed during inadvertent rechallenge, and healed following permanent withdrawal from the drug.
(19) Diagnostic procedures (lumbar puncture, fetal monitoring electrodes, suprapubic aspiration, and heel sticks) may result inadvertently in the inoculation of a neighboring osseous structure.
(20) A review of three hysterograms inadvertently performed during early pregnancy reaffirms the regular appearance of infiltration of aqueous opaque media into the substance of the decidua, producing the sign of the double-outlined uterine cavity.