What's the difference between notification and telling?

Notification


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.
  • (n.) Notice given in words or writing, or by signs.
  • (n.) The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, or citation, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings indicated that notifications from the clinic were being made in accordance with internationally accepted practice.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) To have a blanket rule of pre-notification really concerns me in terms of the crucial importance for journalists to go out there and investigate wrongdoing," he said.
  • (4) Of these 361 notifications, 59 (16%) patients have had concurrent mycobacterial infection.
  • (5) For these 578 cases there were 884 notifications coming principally from the control services of the Social Security and public hospitals.
  • (6) The EAW is one of 35 measures the government is seeking to opt back into after having opted out of a raft of more than 100 EU policies relating to justice and home affairs last year, when Cameron wrote to the EU council presidency to give formal notification of the government’s intention to exercise the block opt-out.
  • (7) However, she was also clear that she was sticking to the mantra of the EU27 when it came to Brexit – that there would be no negotiation without notification , even on the issue of EU citizens.
  • (8) Accidents were identified using the notification system from accident and emergency departments to health visitors.
  • (9) Cases were selected from notifications of tuberculosis and controls were selected from child health or school health records in 14 English health districts.
  • (10) In 1990, the Norwegian Directorate of Health recommended that victims of rape and violence all over the country--independent of police notification--be offered a medical and a medico-legal examination and follow-up.
  • (11) Accurate notification of the underlying cause of death and associated diseases is required for the precise monitoring of trends in mortality from AIDS and possible identification of unrecognised conditions associated with HIV infection.
  • (12) The Paediatric Association is not in favor of a central registry or any form of notification, and decisions should not be delegated to ethical committees.
  • (13) On Wednesday, the director of the charity said the US military did not give prior notification of the airstrike, in an apparent violation of the Pentagon’s own instructions on the rules of war.
  • (14) Central Command also said at the time Iran had provided only 23 minutes of advance notification of its intention to fire rockets.
  • (15) They have only introduced about half of the national standard … it’s bloody incredible.” Harris and others pushed for Western Australia to copy New South Wales, which has had a mandatory custody notification scheme since 2000.
  • (16) Evaluation of the official notifications from 1971 to 1983 shows that viral disease represented only 2.7% of the diseases with public health impact in Transkei, and that measles and poliomyelitis are prevalent.
  • (17) The Aboriginal Legal Service in New South Wales has a 24-hour custody notification service – a measure recommended by the 1991 royal commission but enacted in no other states or territories.
  • (18) However, cancer screening and risk notification might have adverse psychologic and social consequences as well.
  • (19) The much greater reduction in the rate of decline in the Indian ethnic group is due to the substantial decline between the surveys in the proportion of recent immigrants, the group with the highest annual notification rate, in that population.
  • (20) Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem in Australia, with 24.3% of all new tuberculosis notifications in 1984 of extrapulmonary origin.

Telling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tell
  • (a.) Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (4) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (5) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
  • (6) I think he had been saying all season that with three or four games to go he will tell us where we are.
  • (7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (8) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
  • (9) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (10) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (11) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
  • (12) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
  • (13) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
  • (14) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
  • (15) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (16) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (17) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
  • (18) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
  • (19) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
  • (20) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.