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Definition: AVIS

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Advice; opinion; deliberation.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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"Avis" is a common misspelling or typo for: Davis, mavis, avid, pavis, avise, aviso.

Date "Avis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1369. (references)

Etymology:Avis \A*vis"\, noun. [French expression avis. See Advice.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: AVIS

Domain Definition
Aerospace Airborne Vegetation Index Sensor. (references)
Environment Atomic vapor isotope separation. (references)
Technology Audio Visual Information Systems. (references)

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

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Common Expressions: AVIS

Expressions Definition
Avis (Portugal) Avis is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 606.0 km² and a total population of 5,081 inhabitants. (references)
Avis Gray Avis Gray (born September 3, 1954) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1992 to 1995. (references)
Avis Rent A Car System Inc. Avis Rent A Car System Inc. is an automobile rental company founded in 1946 in Detroit by Warren Avis. (references)
Rara avis A rare or unique person. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Scott Avis Scott Avis, a fare relative of the legendary WG Grace. The holder of the national youth cricket records of most runs in a one day match and most wickets in a one day match. (references)

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

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Specialty Expressions: AVIS

Expressions Domain Definition
Avis d'appel call Post & Telecom Any booking of a call may include an "avis d'appel" the object of which is the summoning of a correspondent or his substitute at the same address, for the purpose of taking a call. Source: European Union. (references)
Avis incidemment exprimé par le juge et n'ayant pas force de précédent Electrical Engineering The part of the control equipment which is worked manually in order to control a function. Source: European Union. (references)
X AVIS Environment See AXIS. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: AVIS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
AVIS English Audio Visual Interactive Scriptware N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: AVIS

Avis

Avis may refer to:

Acronyms

  • Andover Village Improvement Society, the oldest conservation society in the eastern United States

Business

  • Auster Avis, a four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project)
  • Avis Budget Group, founded in 2006 as the successor company to Cendant Corporation
    • Avis Rent a Car System, a car and truck rental firm
      • Aju Avis, an automobile rental headquartered in Guro-dong Guro-gu Seoul Korea and established in 1988
  • Haugesunds Avis, a daily newspaper published in Haugesund, Norway

Entertainment

  • Avis, a Harry Potter spell
  • Avis Durgan, the ASCII-string encoded in the text of the vintage Sierra Entertainment AGI adventure games
  • Avis de Recherche, Canadian French language category 2 digital cable specialty channel
  • Rarae Avis, an indie rock group

People

Given name (in order of Surname)

  • Avis Bunnage (1923-1990), British actress of film, stage and television
  • Avis M. Dry (1922–2007), clinical psychologist and an author on the psychology of Carl Jung
  • Avis Favaro (born 1958), Canadian medical correspondent for CTV News since 1992
  • Avis Gray (born 1954), politician in Manitoba, Canada
  • Avis Kimble (born 1944), American model
  • Avis Miller (born 1945), American model

Family name

  • House of Aviz, the Portuguese royal dynasty
  • David Avis, Canadian and British computer scientist
  • Samuel B. Avis (1872-1924), American politician
  • Warren Avis (1915-2007), the founder of Avis Rent A Car

Places

  • Avis, Pennsylvania, a borough in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Avis (Portugal), a municipality in the south of Portugal

Science and technology

  • Avis, Latin singular for bird, see class of birds, Aves
  • Avis, plural of the video file format AVI
  • calcar avis (hippocampus minor), an involution of the ventricular wall produced by the calcarine fissure

See also

  • Aves

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Avis". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: AVIS

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Avis 12     Aju Avis 4
Avis Rent a Car System 10     Auster Avis 9
Avis de Recherche 9     Avis 12
Avis Kimble 9     Avis (Portugal) 7
Auster Avis 9     Avis Budget Group 7
Avis Miller 9     Avis Bunnage 4
Avis Budget Group 7     Avis de Recherche 9
Warren Avis 7     Avis Durgan 3
Avis (Portugal) 7     Avis Favaro 3
Calcar avis 6     Avis Gray 4
Rarae Avis 5     Avis Kimble 9
Samuel B. Avis 4     Avis M. Dry 4
Aju Avis 4     Avis Miller 9
Flensborg Avis 4     Avis Rent a Car System 10
Avis M. Dry 4     Calcar avis 6
David Avis 4     David Avis 4
Avis Gray 4     Flensborg Avis 4
Avis Bunnage 4     Haugesunds Avis 3
Haugesunds Avis 3     Rarae Avis 5
Avis Favaro 3     Samuel B. Avis 4
Avis Durgan 3     Warren Avis 7

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"avis" is a common misspelling or typo for: Davis, mavis, avid, pavis, avise, aviso.

Synonyms: avis
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 advice, deliberation, opinion, anxiety, attention, belief, conceit, concept, consultation, counsel, design, discretion, idea, intellect, judgment, notion, observation, reflection.
Consider also: plan, admonition, caution, circumspection, consideration, feeling, forethought, vigilance, wariness, warning, watchfulness, aim, brain, decision, purpose, determination, scheme, discernment, impression, observance.

Other

 thought.
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Computed Synonyms: Avis

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0196   Avis     advice     counsel, announcement, notice, notification, information   
 2   1.0189   Avis     advance note     advance notice, note of advice, advice, credit advice, notification   
 3   1.0189   Avis     credit advice     credit note, advice of credit, bank credit advice, note of advice, advice   
 4   1.0188   Avis     note of advice     credit advice, advice, advance note, advance notice, notification   
 5   1.0095   Avis     wink     blink, twinkle, flicker, winking, flash   
 6   1.0090   Avis     information     news, announcement, message, report, advice   
 7   1.0089   Avis     notification     notice, announcement, advice, declaration, information   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: Avis

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   10.0393   RARA Avis     rarity     rareness, scarcity   
 2   6.1394   rara avis     rareness     rarity, scarcity   
 3   6.0091   rara avis     scarcity     shortage, lack   
 4   5.0092   rara avis     curio     curiosity, rarity   
 5   5.0091   rara avis     curiosity     inquisitiveness, curio   
 6   3.0090   RARA Avis     oddity     peculiarity, singularity   
 7   3.0089   RARA Avis     infrequency     rarity, rareness   
 8   2.0394   rara avis     rare bird         
 9   2.0393   RARA Avis     rarefaction     dilution, attenuation   
 10   2.0393   rara avis     rare     scarce, uncommon   
 11   2.0092   rara avis     freak     whim, eccentric   
 12   2.0091   RARA Avis     treasure     hoard, wealth   
 13   2.0091   rara avis     sparsity     scarcity, sparseness   
 14   2.0090   RARA Avis     fey     clairvoyant, keen   
 15   1.1189   Avis Conforme     assents     accords, permissions   
--------------------     24 expressions ranked from 16 to 39 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Synonyms within Context: avis

Context Synonyms within Context

Inexpedience

Rara avis, brilliant, diamond, gem, gem of the first water, good thing, jewel, one in a thousand, pearl, precious stone, bijou, ruby, tidbit, treasure.

Repute

Rara avis, classman, great card, hero, lion, man of mark, man of rank, nobleman, notability, pillar of the church, pillar of the community, pillar of the state, celebrity, somebody, worthy.

Unconformity

Rara avis, black swan, character, crossbreed, curiosity, flying fish, half-blood, half-breed, half-caste, hermaphrodite, hinny, hybrid, lusus naturae, metis, miracle, mongrel, monster, mulatto, mule, nonconformist, nondescript, nonesuch, nonsuch, original, prodigy, queer fish, random breed, black sheep, tertium quid, wonder.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. Top

Translations: AVIS

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Bohemian avízo (advice, advance note, advance notice, Avis, credit advice). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina avízo (advice, advance note, advance notice, Avis, credit advice). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech avízo (advice, advance note, advance notice, Avis, credit advice). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Français Aviz (Avis). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
French Aviz (Avis). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Lietuvi sheep (Avis). Additional references: Lietuvi, Lithuania, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Litauische sheep (Avis). Additional references: Litauische, Lithuania, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Litewski sheep (Avis). Additional references: Litewski, Lithuania, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Lithuanian sheep (Avis). Additional references: Lithuanian, Lithuania, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Litovskiy sheep (Avis). Additional references: Litovskiy, Lithuania, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Liutuviskai sheep (Avis). Additional references: Liutuviskai, Lithuania, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish rara avis (rare bird, avis). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, Avis. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top

Constructed Language Translations: AVIS

Language Translations for “Avis” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag athagavathagis (avis). Additional references: Athag, Avis. (volunteer)
Double Dutch agavagis (avis). Additional references: Double Dutch, Avis. (volunteer)
Leet 4<¦z (avis). Additional references: Leet, Avis. (volunteer)
Oppish opavopis (avis). Additional references: Oppish, Avis. (volunteer)
Pig Latin Avisway (Avis). Additional references: Pig Latin, Avis. (volunteer)
Terran B sviz (Avis). Additional references: Terran B, Avis. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi ubavubis (avis). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Avis. (volunteer)
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