Inform vs Recount - What's the difference?

Inform is a related term of recount.

As verbs the difference between inform and recount

is that inform is (archaic|transitive) to instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge) while recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of or recount can be to count or reckon again.

As an adjective inform

is without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

As a noun recount is

retelling, narration, rendering or recount can be a counting again, as of votes.

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

recount

English

Etymology 1

From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.

Noun

(en noun)

Retelling, narration, rendering

Verb

(en verb)

To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.

The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.

To rehearse; to enumerate.

to recount one's blessings

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

A counting again, as of votes.

Verb

(en verb)

To count or reckon again.