A new word: heed /hid/
Original Sentence:
If you want to save yourself a lot of time or trouble, heed these warnings.
heed, verb, /hid/
Definitions:
to pay attention to someone’s advice or warning.
to pay attention to (advice, a warning, etc.).
to pay careful attention to sb's advice or warning. SYN take notice of.
to pay attention to something, especially advice or a warning.
to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest.
Example:
If you heed someone's advice or warning, you pay attention to it and do what they suggest.
If she had only heeded my warnings, none of this would have happened.
She failed to heed the warnings.
We must heed the words of our leaders [=listen to our leaders' advice] and make peace.
Many people have heeded his call to volunteer. [=listened to him and volunteered]
They failed to heed the lessons of history.
If only they had heeded his warnings!
Calls for more legislation to protect tenants were not heeded.
The airline has been criticized for failing to heed advice/warnings about lack of safety routines.
The danger signs were there, but we didn’t heed the warning.
But few at the conference in London last week heeded his warning.
Chris would have been well advised to heed the old saying `Never bite the hand that feeds you.'
heed, noun, /hid/
pay/give/take heed to something or somebody (phrase)
Definitions:
to pay attention to something, especially something someone says, and seriously consider it.
attention or notice - often used with pay or take.
to pay careful attention to sb/sth.
attention.
to give careful attention to someone’s advice or warning.
If you take heed of what someone says or if you pay heed to them, you pay
attention to them and consider carefully what they say. Syn: pay
attention to.
Example:
The government was taking little heed of these threats.
Tom paid no heed to her warning.
She pays no heed to the concerns of others.
She does not pay their concerns any heed.
Sailors take heed. [=listen to this warning] A storm is on the way.
He failed to take heed of our advice. = He failed to pay heed to our advice. [=he failed to follow our advice]
They gave little heed to the rumours.
I paid no heed at the time but later I had cause to remember what he'd said.
Small businesses would be wise to take heed of the warnings contained in the Chancellor's speech.
The company took no heed of (= did not consider) public opposition to the plans.
People should pay no heed to these ill-informed views.
He pays too much heed these days to my nephew Tom, and Tom is no great thinker.
But what if the government takes no heed?
