What's the difference between apprise and notify?

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.

Notify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.
  • (v. t.) To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Case series based on notifiable disease report forms and patient medical records.
  • (2) Over the 10-year period 1973-82 1958 cases of tuberculosis were notified in Leeds (population 728 000).
  • (3) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
  • (4) However, the Iowa Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had done so.
  • (5) Data from 1985 and 1986 showed that 85.6% of the bugs captured inside houses were notified by the population, which confirms that the best way to maintain the epidemiologic surveillance of Chagas' disease by the mobilization of local communities for effective participation in vector surveillance.
  • (6) Irreversible lesions of the bone marrow by cytostatic agents are notifiable unwished effects of drugs.
  • (7) We surveyed clinical trials of anti-tumour drugs notified to the Norwegian Medicines Control Authority during the period 1982 to 1986.
  • (8) It’s a wicked thing to do.” Thomson said the federal government had not notified him about approaching boats since 2009.
  • (9) A survey of all notifications of tuberculosis in children (aged less than 15 years) in England and Wales in 1983 showed a decline of 35% in the estimated annual number of previously untreated children notified since the previous survey in 1978-9.
  • (10) In April 1984, the US FDA was notified of an unusual clinical syndrome consisting of ascites, liver and renal failure, thrombocytopenia, and death among low birth weight infants exposed to an intravenous vitamin E preparation, E-Ferol.
  • (11) Patients with a past history of tuberculosis and those who died within one year were less likely to have had their tuberculosis notified.
  • (12) From the results of this study it is clear that there is no necessity to list chorioptic mange in sheep and goats as a notifiable disease.
  • (13) The epidemiological approach to occupational accidents and diseases adopted in Brazil is inadequate for many reasons, among them being: 1) the fact that only employers may notify work accidents, thus permitting notorious undernotification of these occupational hazards; 2) the available information does not permit a better understanding of the causal relationship between work accidents and diseases; 3) the official policy exists only for purposes of insurance compensation.
  • (14) But the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which counts Isis as an opponent in its protracted civil war, confirmed it was notified of the operation in advance and did not offer any resistance.
  • (15) In this study we analyze the characteristics of 10,338 individuals who initiated a treatment for illegal drug abuse (opiates or cocaine) during 1987 in 224 centres spread along the Autonomous Communities and which had been notified to SEIT.
  • (16) What bothers me is that a club would contact the manager of a national team without first notifying the Federation.
  • (17) There is an ethical and legal problem for obstetricians when a pregnant patient, before or during labor, is notified by her physician that the fetus is in danger of dying and in need of surgical intervention, and she does not accept this advice.
  • (18) From 1962 to 1968 a total of 659 paralytic cases were officially notified.
  • (19) When I tried a final and third time, the site notified me that it was down due to a large amount of traffic.
  • (20) From October, 1980, to January, 1981, 788 cases were notified.