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Advertise vs. Tout — What's the Difference?

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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