Advertise vs. Tout — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Advertise and Tout
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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
Tout
A tout is any person who solicits business or employment in a persistent and annoying manner (generally equivalent to a solicitor or barker in American English, or a spruiker in Australian English). An example would be a person who frequents heavily touristed areas and presents himself as a tour guide (particularly towards those who do not speak the local language) but operates on behalf of local bars, restaurant, or hotels, being paid to direct tourists towards certain establishments.
Advertise
To make public announcement of, especially to proclaim the qualities or advantages of (a product or business) so as to increase sales.
Tout
To promote or praise energetically; publicize
"For every study touting the benefits of hormone therapy, another warns of the risks" (Yanick Rice Lamb).
Advertise
To make known; call attention to
Advertised my intention to resign.
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Tout
To solicit or importune
Street vendors who were touting pedestrians.
Advertise
To warn or notify
"This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death" (Henry David Thoreau).
Tout
Chiefly British To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.
Advertise
To call the attention of the public to a product or business.
Tout
To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
Advertise
To inquire or seek in a public notice, as in a newspaper
Advertise for an apartment.
Tout
Chiefly British To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.
Advertise
(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
Tout
One who solicits customers brazenly or persistently
"The administration of the nation's literary affairs falls naturally into the hands of touts and thieves" (Lewis H. Lapham).
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.
Tout
Chiefly British One who obtains information on racehorses and their prospects and sells it to bettors.
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.
Tout
Chiefly Scots and Irish Slang One who informs against others; an informer.
Advertise
To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
Tout
Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena, they are famed for selling counterfeits.
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.
Tout
A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
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.
Tout
(colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
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.
Tout
A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
Advertise
Call attention to;
Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS
Tout
(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
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
Tout
(transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
Mary has been touted as a potential succesor to the current CEO.
Tout
To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
Tout
To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
Tout
To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
Tout
To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
Tout
(intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
Tout
(obsolete) To look upon or watch.
Tout
To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
Tout
To ply or seek for customers.
Tout
To look narrowly; spy.
Tout
To spy out the movements of race horses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
Tout
To toot a horn.
Tout
To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse.
Tout
One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
Tout
One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; - usually contemptuous.
Tout
One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place.
Tout
A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
Tout
In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
Tout
The anus.
Tout
Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
Tout
Someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
Tout
One who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
Tout
Advertize in strongly positive terms;
This product was touted as a revolutionary invention
Tout
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