Advertise vs. Promote — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Advertise and Promote
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Definitions
Advertise➦
Describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance
A billboard advertising beer
Promote➦
To raise to a more important or responsible job or rank.
Advertise➦
To make public announcement of, especially to proclaim the qualities or advantages of (a product or business) so as to increase sales.
Promote➦
To advance (a student) to the next higher grade.
Advertise➦
To make known; call attention to
Advertised my intention to resign.
Promote➦
To contribute to the progress or growth of; further.
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Advertise➦
To warn or notify
"This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death" (Henry David Thoreau).
Promote➦
To urge the adoption of; advocate
Promote a constitutional amendment.
Advertise➦
To call the attention of the public to a product or business.
Promote➦
To attempt to sell or popularize by advertising or publicity
Commercials promoting a new product.
Advertise➦
To inquire or seek in a public notice, as in a newspaper
Advertise for an apartment.
Promote➦
To help establish or organize (a new enterprise), as by securing financial backing
Promote a Broadway show.
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Advertise➦
(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
Promote➦
(transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
He promoted his clerk to office manager.
Advertise➦
(intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
For personal needs, advertise on the internet or in a local newspaper.
Promote➦
(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
Advertise➦
(transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
Over the air, they advertise their product on drive-time radio talk shows and TV news shows.
Promote➦
(transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
Advertise➦
To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
Promote➦
To elevate to a higher league.
At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
Advertise➦
(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
Promote➦
To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
Advertise➦
To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; - often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.
I will advertise thee what this people shall do.
Promote➦
To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
Advertise➦
To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.
Promote➦
To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.
Advertise➦
Call attention to;
Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS
Promote➦
To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.
Advertise➦
Make publicity for; try to sell (a product);
The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model
The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops
Promote➦
To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.
I will promote thee unto very great honor.
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee.
Promote➦
To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.
Promote➦
Contribute to the progress or growth of;
I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom
Promote➦
Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position;
John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired
Women tend not to advance in the major law firms
I got promoted after many years of hard work
Promote➦
Make publicity for; try to sell (a product);
The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model
The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops
Promote➦
Be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
Promote➦
Change a pawn for a king by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it the row closest to your opponent