notices

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of notice.

   Whenever the manager notices a mistake, she corrects it at once.

   A good editor notices errors that everyone else has missed.

   Note

   Most often it takes an object or a that-clause: she notices a mistake, he notices that the door is open. Less familiar is the intransitive use meaning "to show," as in a repair that hardly notices. Older texts also use it for remarking on something aloud, and earlier still for treating someone with favor. Neither use survives in everyday speech.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of notice.

   Several notices warned visitors to keep off the wet grass.

   The library posts notices about upcoming events near the entrance.

   Note

   Only the countable meanings take this plural: posted announcements, formal warnings, and the published reviews a play receives, as when a show opens to glowing notices. The uncountable uses stay singular. Notice as perception, or as advance warning in "two weeks' notice," has no plural, so "two weeks' notices" is wrong. The same spelling also serves the present-tense verb, as in "she notices everything."

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