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TO TAKE ADVICE

Definition: TO TAKE ADVICE

TO TAKE ADVICE

1. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others. Syn: Counsel; suggestion; recommendation; admonition; exhortation; information; notice.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Usage: TO TAKE ADVICE

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Screenplays

I'm not going to take advice on relationships from a guy who chases his own ass. (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

Lyrics

Maybe I don't want to take advice from fools (TIL I HEAR IT FROM YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

Well baby I don't want to take advice from fools (TIL I HEAR IT FROM YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

Well maybe I don't want to take advice from fools (TIL I HEAR IT FROM YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: TO TAKE ADVICE

AuthorQuotation

Swift

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: TO TAKE ADVICE

Language Translations for "TO TAKE ADVICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

coyrle y gheddyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay aketay adviceay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO TAKE ADVICE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-k-o-t-t-v"

-2 letters: deactivate.

-3 letters: activated, cavitated.

-4 letters: acetated, activate, advocate, attacked, caveated, cavitate, ticketed.

-5 letters: acetate, aviated, cavetti, cavetto, coveted, deviate, devoice, dictate, dovekie, evicted, ketotic, oatcake, teacake, vacated, vidette.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO TAKE ADVICE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      54 41 4B 45      41 44 56 49 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001011 01000101 00100000 01000001 01000100 01010110 01001001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#84 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#68 &#86 &#73 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0054 0041 004B 0045      0041 0044 0056 0049 0043 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492543545392353856433739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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