Inform vs Bring_up - What's the difference?

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Inform is a related term of bring_up.

As verbs the difference between inform and bring_up

is that inform is (archaic|transitive) to instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge) while bring_up is .

As an adjective inform

is without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

inform

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) informen, enformen, from (etyl) enformer, .

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).

To communicate knowledge to.

* Spenser

For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.

* Shakespeare

I am informed thoroughly of the cause.

To impart information or knowledge.

To act as an informer; denounce.

To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}

* Dryden

Let others better mould the running mass / Of metals, and inform the breathing brass.

* Prior

Breath informs this fleeting frame.

(obsolete) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.

(obsolete) To direct, guide.

(archaic) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.

* Shakespeare

It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes.

Synonyms

* acquaint, apprise, notify * (act as informer) dob, name names, peach, snitch

Derived terms

* informant * information * informative * informatory * informed * informer * misinform * uninformed

Etymology 2

(etyl) (lena) informis

Adjective

(-)

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

(Cotton)

Anagrams

bring_up

English

Verb

* 1953 , United States Supreme Court, John Den ''ex dem.'' Archibald Russell ''v.'' The Association of the Jersey Company , reprinted in the (United States Reports), volume 56, page 426:

This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.

To mention.

To raise (children).

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}

To uncover, to bring from obscurity.

To turn on power or start, as of a machine.

To vomit.

To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.

* 1934 , (Rex Stout), , 1992 (w) edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 91:

"Mr. Wolfe, I beg you—I beg of you—"

I was sure she was going to cry and I didn't want her to. But Wolfe brusquely brought her up :

"That's all, Miss Barstow."

* 1999 , Alice Borchardt, Night of the Wolf , (w), ISBN 0345423631, page 260 [http://google.com/books?id=tG4tiCvmHJwC&pg=PA260&dq=brought-him-up]:

"No," Maeniel shouted, "No!" trying to distract the man, and lunged toward him. The chain on his ankle brought him up short and he fell on his face.

Anagrams

* English phrasal verbs