Crossword clues for inform
inform
- Enlighten
- Notify
- Apprise
- Grass is doing well
- Grass due to receive a bit of manure
- Where students learn to sing?
- Wearing fashion to shop
- Spill the beans - many pupils have not been here much this year!
- Sneak attending class?
- Sing refrain for musical gathering
- Playing well? Let people know
- Playing well at the moment, do some singing?
- Brief batting appearance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inform \In*form"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Informed; p. pr. & vb. n. Informing.] [OE. enformen, OF. enformer, F. informer. L. informare; pref. in- in + formare to form, share, fr. forma form. See Form.]
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To give form or share to; to give vital or organizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion. ``The informing Word.''
--Coleridge.Let others better mold the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass.
--Dryden.Breath informs this fleeting frame.
--Prior.Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part.
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To communicate knowledge to; to make known to; to acquaint; to advise; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; -- usually followed by of.
For he would learn their business secretly, And then inform his master hastily.
--Spenser.I am informed thoroughly of the cause.
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To communicate a knowledge of facts to, by way of accusation; to warn against anybody.
Tertullus . . . informed the governor against Paul.
--Acts xxiv. 1.Syn: To acquaint; apprise; tell; teach; instruct; enlighten; animate; fashion.
Inform \In*form"\, v. t.
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To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
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To give intelligence or information; to tell.
--Shak.He might either teach in the same manner, or inform how he had been taught.
--Monthly Rev.To inform against, to communicate facts by way of accusation against; to denounce; as, two persons came to the magistrate, and informed against A.
Inform \In*form"\, a. [L. informis; pref. in- not + forma form,
shape: cf. F. informe]
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
--Cotton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "to train or instruct in some specific subject," from Old French informer "instruct, inform, teach," and directly from Latin informare "to shape, form," figuratively "train, instruct, educate," from in- "into" (see in- (2)) + formare "to form, shape," from forma "form" (see form (n.)). Varied with enform until c.1600. Sense of "report facts or news" first recorded late 14c. Related: Informed; informing.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (cx archaic transitive English) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge). 2 (cx transitive English) To communicate knowledge to. 3 (context intransitive English) To impart information or knowledge. 4 To act as an informer; denounce. 5 (cx transitive English) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.). vb. 1 (cx archaic transitive English) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge). 2 (cx transitive English) To communicate knowledge to. 3 (context intransitive English) To impart information or knowledge. 4 To act as an informer; denounce. 5 (cx transitive English) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.). Etymology 2
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
WordNet
v. impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to; "I informed him of his rights"
give character or essence to; "The principles that inform modern teaching"
act as an informer; "She had informed on her own parents for years"
Wikipedia
INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) is an independent registered charity located at the London School of Economics. It was founded in 1988 by the sociologist of religion, Eileen Barker, with funding from the British Home Office, Britain’s mainstream churches, foundations and enquirers. Its stated aim is to provide neutral, objective and up-to-date information on new religious movements (NRMs) to government officials, scholars, the media, and members of the general public, in particular to relatives of people who have joined a new religious movement., as well as religious or spiritual seekers
Inform may refer to:
- Inform, a programming language for interactive fiction
- INFORM, Inc., an environmental organization
- INFORM, a state-funded British charity providing information on new religious movements
Usage examples of "inform".
The household was abustle, and Matt had informed her that she had somewhere in the neighborhood of half an hour to get breakfast prepared and the boys off to school.
Vrej was posed insouciantly on a new foremast, and explained the delay by informing them that Acapulco was that rarest of places, an important trade-port without a single Armenian, and so he had been forced to deal with slower minds.
And inasmuch as we are informed that that is inconvenient, we order that the ships be prepared with all that is necessary by December, so that at the end of that month, they may leave the said port of Acapulco, so that they may be able to arrive at the said islands, at the latest, some time in March.
Christ, which body, although not informed by those accidents, is yet contained under them.
When Franklin informed him that the Comte de Chaumont was charging nothing, that they were living there at no cost, Adams worried that that, too, was inappropriate, since, as everyone knew, Chaumont was one of the largest contractors furnishing supplies for the American army.
However, the new resident commissioner at Passy, John Adams, required closer study, and in an effort to inform London, Alexander provided an especially perceptive appraisal: John Adams is a man of the shortest of what is called middle size in England, strong and tight-made, rather inclining to fat, of a complexion that bespeaks a warmer climate than Massachusetts is supposed, a countenance which bespeaks rather reflection than imagination.
In an official letter of June 21, Vergennes informed Adams that France opposed any revaluation of the American currency unless an exception were made for French merchants.
At The Hague, Adams called first on the French ambassador, the young Duc de La Vauguyon, to inform him of his plan to present the memorial as soon as possible.
ON THE EVENING OF APRIL 26, Jefferson rode out from Paris to deliver a letter that had just arrived from Elbridge Gerry informing Adams that he had been named minister to the Court of St.
Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, in a letter informing Adams that he had received an honorary degree from Yale, said he rejoiced at the thought of Adams for Vice President.
That spring Adams was informed that already the French had taken more than 300 trading vessels.
In February, to make the tension still worse, Adams had to inform Congress that a French privateer had actually attacked a British merchant ship inside Charleston Harbor.
Public opinion--in spite of, or on account of, a crowd of witnesses--was ill informed upon the exact bearings of the question, and it was obvious that as Dutch sentiment at the Cape appeared already to be thoroughly hostile to us, it would be dangerous to alienate the British Africanders also by making a martyr of their favourite leader.
As we rounded the shoulder of the summit, Kathleen informed me that she had to go to the bathroom, and I was suddenly faced with the reality of Alaskan motherhood.
They had just arrived, the messenger informed us, on a visit to the Prior of Malvern, and came from Worcester in great privacy, attended only by Bishop Alcock, the tutor of the young princes.