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informare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • advise verb To give someone guidance or a recommendation about what to do.
  • communicate verb To share information or ideas with someone, whether by speaking, writing, or gesture.
  • inform verb To tell someone about facts or a situation.
  • snitch verb To inform on someone, often betraying a friend or group.
  • underpin verb To support from below with props or masonry.

Senses

informare is used for these senses in English:

  • advise (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
  • advise (transitive) To formally give information or notice to; to inform or counsel. [with of ‘what is communicated’]
  • communicate (transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. [from 16th c.]
  • inform (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
  • snitch (slang, intransitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
  • underpin (transitive, figuratively) To give support to; to form a basis of; to corroborate.

advise — full definition

  1. verb To give someone guidance or a recommendation about what to do.
  2. verb To formally inform or notify someone of something.

communicate — full definition

  1. verb To share information or ideas with someone, whether by speaking, writing, or gesture.
  2. verb To pass something, such as a disease or feeling, from one person or thing to another.

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