What's the difference between advise and inform?

Advise


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
  • (v. t.) To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk.
  • (v. t.) To consider; to deliberate.
  • (v. t.) To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (3) Adviser to Solidarity, then member of parliament in 1989.
  • (4) Even though the administration of demethylchlortetracycline did not produce significant decreases in the glomerular filtration rate or renal blood flow in our patient, it is advisable to control the renal function in individuals treated with this drug since it may on occasion determine renal insufficiency.
  • (5) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
  • (6) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
  • (7) For Bush Sr, the dilemma is all the more agonising as some of the White House advisers he now criticises are former employees he bequeathed to his son.
  • (8) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
  • (9) Appropriate vitamin E supplementation is, therefore, advisable for all patients with chronic fat malabsorption who have low serum vitamin E concentrations.
  • (10) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
  • (11) Combining drugs may only occasionally be advisable to supplement a desired effect or to attenuate an unwanted one.
  • (12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
  • (13) Results are discussed in relation to the time of treatment and the pathogenic agent involved, and a classification of the antibiotics into three groups is proposed: recommended; not advised; not sufficiently studied.
  • (14) The experience illustrates the danger of assuming that all pneumococcus peritonitis is the primary variety and the advisability of routine Gram stain of the peritoneal fluid at operation in order to select the appropriate antibiotic.
  • (15) Within 4 months of Holter monitoring, the advised coronary angiography was performed in 77% of the patients with variable threshold angina and in 89% of the patients with fixed threshold angina (p less than 0.05).
  • (16) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
  • (17) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
  • (18) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
  • (19) The independent Low Pay Commission will advise on the path future increases should take, taking into account the state of the economy.
  • (20) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.

Inform


Definition:

  • (a.) Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
  • (v. t.) To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.
  • (v. t.) To communicate knowledge to; to make known to; to acquaint; to advise; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; -- usually followed by of.
  • (v. t.) To communicate a knowledge of facts to,by way of accusation; to warn against anybody.
  • (v. t.) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
  • (v. t.) To give intelligence or information; to tell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (4) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (5) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (6) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (7) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (8) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (9) They suggest that an endogenous retinoid could contribute to positional information in the early Xenopus embryo.
  • (10) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
  • (11) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (12) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
  • (13) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
  • (14) Current information suggests that arachidonic acid metabolites are involved in the development of cholecystitis.
  • (15) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
  • (16) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (17) Much information has accumulated on the isolation and characterization of a heterogeneous group of molecules that inhibit one or more of the bioactivities of interleukin 1.
  • (18) This can be achieved by sincere, periodic information through the mass media.
  • (19) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
  • (20) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.