has gloss | (verb) impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to; "I informed him of his rights" inform |
lexicalization | eng: inform |
subclass of | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" intercommunicate, communicate |
has subclass | (verb) present and urge reasons in opposition remonstrate, point out |
has subclass | (verb) provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence" evidence, testify, show, prove, bear witness |
has subclass | (verb) cause someone to become aware of something wise up |
has subclass | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" instruct, learn, teach |
has subclass | (verb) make aware of; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?" apprise, apprize, instruct |
has subclass | (verb) introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of; "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs" inoculate |
has subclass | (verb) inform; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move" acquaint |
has subclass | (verb) notify, usually in advance; "I warned you that I would ask some difficult questions" warn |
has subclass | (verb) act as an informer; "She had informed on her own parents for years" inform |
has subclass | (verb) supply with information on a specific topic; "He filled me in on the latest developments" fill in |
has subclass | (verb) bring up to date; supply with recent information update |
has subclass | (verb) give false or misleading information to misinform, mislead |
has subclass | (verb) represent as less significant or important minimise, downplay, minimize, understate |
has subclass | (verb) give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" rat, grass, shit, stag, denounce, shop, snitch, give away, tell on, betray |
has subclass | (verb) free from deception or illusion undeceive |
has subclass | (verb) notify of danger, potential harm, or risk; "The director warned him that he might be fired"; "The doctor warned me about the dangers of smoking" warn |
has subclass | (verb) inform (somebody) of something; "I advised him that the rent was due" notify, give notice, apprize, apprise, advise, send word |
has subclass | (verb) make familiar or conversant with; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings" familiarize, familiarise, acquaint |
has subclass | (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned prompt, cue, remind |
has subclass | (verb) tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information" volunteer |
has subclass | (verb) cause to come to know personally; "permit me to acquaint you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the community" present, introduce, acquaint |
has subclass | (verb) express with regret; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard" regret |
has subclass | (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents" point, show, designate, indicate |
has subclass | (verb) to state or express briefly; "indicated his wishes in a letter" indicate |
has subclass | (verb) suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" indicate, suggest |
has subclass | (verb) inform or spy (for the police) nark |
has subclass | (verb) make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students" explain, explicate |
has subclass | (verb) let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late" tell |
has subclass | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" recite, narrate, recount, tell |
has subclass | (verb) provide commentary for a film, for example narrate |
has subclass | (verb) to give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental" describe, account, report |
has subclass | (verb) make known to the authorities; "One student reported the other to the principal" report |
has subclass | (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism; "Snow reported on China in the 1950's"; "The cub reporter covered New York City" report, cover |
has subclass | (verb) make known; make an announcement; "She denoted her feelings clearly" denote, announce |
has subclass | (verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief) disabuse |