What's the difference between advice and uncle?

Advice


Definition:

  • (n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
  • (n.) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
  • (n.) Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.
  • (n.) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (2) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
  • (3) The Guardian has a mortgage advice service, provided by London & Country
  • (4) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
  • (5) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
  • (6) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
  • (7) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
  • (8) As part of a series of articles on various aspects of image conservation, practical advice is given on how best to ensure image permanence of contemporary photographs.
  • (9) Two patients died from asthma after leaving our service, one patient having left the hospital against medical advice with arterial blood gases demonstrating acute respiratory acidosis during status asthmaticus.
  • (10) The precondition for cooperation is intensive medical advice covering the following three aspects: 1. education, 2. motivation to put the acquired knowledge into practice, 3. practicability of the advice given.
  • (11) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
  • (12) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
  • (13) We tested the effectiveness of an individually delivered behavioral multicomponent smoking intervention (SI) against offering advice only (AO) to 267 patients after coronary arteriography.
  • (14) The Authors, after some remarks about transferable resistance factors diffusion, give some advices on antibiogram making technique.
  • (15) While there's no indication of whether Zuckerberg's teams will act on Dediu's advice, the rumours that Facebook is working on a phone have surfaced from time to time – most recently in April, when the Taiwanese news site Digitimes suggested it is working with Taiwan's HTC to build a device integrating all the Facebook functions, for release this autumn.
  • (16) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
  • (17) The prime minister said that while he was prepared to organise the extraordinary Treasury briefing, he was not prepared to release the government’s independent advice for the public or parliament to justify the rise.
  • (18) Advice is given to practitioners regarding the preparation, storage and administration of these products.
  • (19) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
  • (20) I agree with Sheryl's lean in advice around setting career goals (18 months and life-long) and also how to work with peers and those in more senior positions.

Uncle


Definition:

  • (n.) The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.
  • (n.) A pawnbroker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
  • (2) At a home less than a block away, a man identifying himself as Tamir’s uncle said the boy’s family was not commenting and referred reporters to an attorney.
  • (3) His maternal uncle is severely retarded and has similar dysmorphic facies.
  • (4) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
  • (5) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
  • (6) Another of Milosevic's favourite uncles also killed himself.
  • (7) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
  • (8) He lost contact with his father, a lorry driver, for several years, but says that his mother - aided by his uncle - made it her mission to shield him from the crime and disorder around them.
  • (9) Marcel's wife, Gertrude, and four children were taken in by Muamba's uncle.
  • (10) That was one of the advantages of having a gay "uncle" – he took me to gigs.
  • (11) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
  • (12) Evaluation of family members for presence of the urinary inhibitor factor for thiamine diphosphate phosphoryl transferase revealed abnormal levels in a brother, a maternal uncle, and the maternal grandfather of the patient.
  • (13) Paul Pogba’s Mr 10% has said that, despite reports linking him to Real Madrid, PSG, Chelsea and Uncle Tom Cobley FC, his client will be staying at Juventus.
  • (14) Still, he won the vote on a platform against corruption and thousands of cheering supporters welcomed “Uncle Jona” into office.
  • (15) I'll try to visit Jeffrey when I can and if I have kids in the future I'll tell them the whole story, and I hope that I can introduce them to Jeffrey and their aunts and uncles.
  • (16) An uncle of one of the crew members from the El Faro says the ship was equipped with modern lifeboats.
  • (17) And at the same time, speaking to black America, he branded Frazier an Uncle Tom, turning him into an object of derision and scorn.
  • (18) I had all these brothers and uncles so I understood the nature of men and I didn't go in there feeling all intimidated.
  • (19) In a four-generation family, chondrodysplasia punctata was found in a boy and one of his maternal uncles.
  • (20) Alas, Charles could not, any more than his great Uncle Edward VIII in 1936 , take the salary with him on emigration; the duchy is public property.