Inform vs Publish - What's the difference?
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(archaic) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
To communicate knowledge to.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
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.).
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* Prior
(obsolete) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
(obsolete) To direct, guide.
(archaic) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
* Shakespeare
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
(intransitive): To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
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, title= (transitive): To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.
(transitive): To announce to the public.
(Internet) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.
(intransitive): To write in a publication (usually as an academic).
Inform is a related term of publish.
In lang=en terms the difference between inform and publish
is that inform is to give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc) while publish is (intransitive): to write in a publication (usually as an academic).As verbs the difference between inform and publish
is that inform is (archaic|transitive) to instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge) while publish is (intransitive): to issue a medium (eg publication).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)- For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.
- I am informed thoroughly of the cause.
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.}}
- Let others better mould the running mass / Of metals, and inform the breathing brass.
- Breath informs this fleeting frame.
- It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes.
Synonyms
* acquaint, apprise, notify * (act as informer) dob, name names, peach, snitchDerived terms
* informant * information * informative * informatory * informed * informer * misinform * uninformedEtymology 2
(etyl) (lena) informisAdjective
(-)- (Cotton)
Anagrams
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(wikipedia publish)Verb
(es)David Larousserie
Super-lasers blaze knowledge frontier, passage=In an article published in 2008 [Gérard] Mourou proposed an alternative means of achieving atomic fusion. He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations.}}