What's the difference between inform and intimate?

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.

Intimate


Definition:

  • (a.) Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.
  • (a.) Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.
  • (a.) Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.
  • (n.) An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.
  • (a.) To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known.
  • (a.) To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
  • (2) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
  • (3) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
  • (4) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
  • (5) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
  • (6) Intimal damage and proliferation were seen in 1st- and 2nd-order branches of the carotid body artery in hypertensive rats and point-counting showed that the volume proportion of Type 1 cell nuclei and vascular lumen was reduced and vascular wall increased.
  • (7) The results suggest that the conversion of the HRP-TMB reaction product to an electron-dense form during osmication is intimately associated with the pH of the phosphate buffer and the total time of osmication.
  • (8) Electron-microscopic examination of the co-culture of the two cell types reveals extensive region of intimate contact.
  • (9) In abnormal arteries such as small vessels present in inflammatory tissue, the IEL was frequently discontinuous and associated with intimal thickening.
  • (10) The calculations revealed that local hypoxia and lipoprotein accumulation may occur at the ridges, leading to subsequent intimal thickening and ridge growth.
  • (11) The development of intimal hyperplasia is not excluded, as well as of inflammatory reaction with the following thrombotic occlusion of the artery lumen.
  • (12) Fatty streaks were observed in 2nd decade involving only 7.5% of the total intimal surface and reaching to a maximum of 22.2% in the 3rd decade, followed by a gradual rise to 9.2% in 7th decade.
  • (13) It shows how some experimental procedures produce dramatic increases in smooth muscle cell proliferation and, in many cases, subsequent cell migration to the intimal layer.
  • (14) Ultrastructurally, transgenic domains were often intimately connected with constitutive heterochromatin and were highly condensed.
  • (15) Since lymphocytic cells in intimate contact with degenerating keratocytes have previously been identified in the cornea, these observations provide a basis for the view that cell-mediated immunopathogenesis is involved in the etiology of herpetic stromal keratitis.
  • (16) Intimal area, lumen area and maximal intimal thickness were measured.
  • (17) Although hormone replacement decreased indexes of LDL metabolism, there was no effect on intimal thickness or indexes of endothelial injury, such as leukocyte adhesion and endothelial cell turnover rate.
  • (18) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
  • (19) Not intimately associated with a nonvital tooth or found to have any communication with the incisive canal.
  • (20) Administration of GM1 blocks completely the appearance of PKM, a result suggesting that PKC down-regulation and PKM activity elevation are intimately associated events and that both are regulated by GM1 ganglioside.