appriseformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to tell someone something
tellMy friend told me you were looking for me.
let someone knowLet me know if you'd like to come.
giveCan you give the message to Jo?
communicateA 60-second TV commercial isn't always the best way to communicate a complex medical message.
informThe relatives of the injured have been informed of the accident.
notifyThe school has to notify parents if their children do not arrive at school.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Announcing, informing & stating
acquaint someone/yourself with something
annunciation
apprise someone of something
avowedly
awaken someone to something
bear
break
pass
proclaim
propagate
propagation
propagative
public
put something before someone
put something out
reported
ring
self-proclaimed
smoke signal
stake a claimidiom

notify | American Dictionary

notify
verb[ T ]
us/ˈnoʊ·t̬ɪˌfɑɪ/
to tell someone officially about something:
Contest winners will be notified by postcard.

notification

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌnoʊ·t̬ɪ·fəˈkeɪ·ʃən/
[ U ]Final notification should reach teachers by March 15.

notify | Business English

notify
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈnəʊtɪfaɪ/us
to tell someone officially about something:
notify sb of sthYou will be notified immediately of any changes to the arrangements.
notify sb that We have just been notified that our application has been successful.
Businesses must notify consumers if their personal information has been subject to a security breach.

Examples of notify

notify
This had the effect of notifying as criminal a whole range of customary economic activities along the border.
This program is capable of notifying the states of the joint motors along the prescribed trajectory and the position errors.
Each condition to be monitored corresponds to a derived predicate for which certain changes have to be notified to the database user.
In this paradigm, components may declare their interest in being notified when certain events are published by other components of the system.
Weekly notification letters are manually created and used to notify physicians of the transcribed notes requiring their signature.
After the campaign an intensive surveillance system was instituted and physicians were required to notify suspected cases.
Other pools in the community were notified of the outbreak early on as were day-care centres.
Values are sent to receiver processes without prior requests until a receiver notifies that it does not need input values any more.
Although initially considering hidden microphones, the invasion of people's privacy could be problematic even if one notifies the visitor.
Six of the remaining patients were notified as cases of meningococcal disease.
Participants were notified of treatment assignment in a subsequent phone call.
Serology in the diagnosis of meningococcal disease 71 (17 %) had been notified, namely 68 as meningococcal disease and three as meningitis of unknown aetiology.
A number of patients may have been notified or admitted solely on clinical grounds, without laboratory verification.
Two cases had not been notified : both had septicaemia and the serogroup was not confirmed.
The capture-recapture calculation indicated that only 49 % of cases were notified.
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