What's the difference between apprise and inform?

Apprise


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.
  • (n.) Notice; information.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As patient advocate, it is imperative nurses be apprised of the laws in their states regarding living wills.
  • (2) Those responsible for reimbursement of healthcare costs should be apprised of its value.
  • (3) Apprised of his skills, Ben-Gurion appointed Peres head of mobilisation for the Haganah underground in 1947.
  • (4) This knowledge deficit doesn't exist: you won't meet anybody on Earth more intricately apprised of calorie content than someone who is obese.
  • (5) The underlying causes of this indifference by governments and international bodies concerned with health and socioeconomic development are presented to apprise governments of malarious countries of certain imperative facts that have to be accepted when seriously considering malaria control schemes in their health plans.
  • (6) Precise pathologic study must be available, however, and the patient must be apprised of this compromise in management and be willing to be examined frequently for evidence of recurrent disease.
  • (7) Pathologists should be apprised of the importance of their ability to discriminate colour, and that formal colour vision testing of prospective histopathologists may be appropriate.
  • (8) To recommend a well-balanced program, it will be necessary for the Advisory Committee to assess the current state of the art of nutrition in cancer etiology and therapy and to be apprised of current opportunities, needs, and resources.
  • (9) Maryland dentists also need to be apprised of federal initiatives concerning tobacco use interventions.
  • (10) "We consider that James Murdoch's failure to apprise himself of this information, given the information which he accepts he knew, fell short of the exercise of responsibility to be expected of the chief executive officer and the chairman," Ofcom said.
  • (11) Eleven subjects agreed to an additional clarification interview, at which time they were apprised of the discrepancies.
  • (12) The latter are movies that never made a serious effort to be good, movies whose titles are white flags sent up by the studio, apprising the public that the entire production threw in the towel early.
  • (13) The aim of the study was to apprise the benefit derived from vaccination against Japanese encephalitis (JE) in Assam.
  • (14) "What I think has excited the White House is that it does put the president in a leadership role, but it is not aimed at what Congress can do, or what he can do per se , so much as it is aimed at apprising the American public about how they can act."
  • (15) Such consent is valid only if the patient has been apprised of the nature, significance and risks of the anaesthetic method to be used.
  • (16) Conversely, when apprised of their existence, imagers should know where their related effects may be sought or anticipated.
  • (17) A whiteboard kept patients apprised of delays in all clinics (30 to 40 minutes, across the board).
  • (18) The software interactively apprises students of the performance of their protocol in terms of its diagnostic accuracy against the cases.
  • (19) Plath, who has already apprised her husband of two earlier suicide attempts, resents his way with the ladies, and begins to suspect that he is having an affair.
  • (20) Though it is impossible to draw definitive conclusions after just two games, it is hard not to assess Chelsea’s squad and apprise a lack of goals and general attacking variety compared to their likely competitors.

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.