different between inform vs teach
inform
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?f??m/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?f??m/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Etymology 1
From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin ?nf?rm? (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + f?rma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- +? form.
Alternative forms
- enform (obsolete)
Verb
inform (third-person singular simple present informs, present participle informing, simple past and past participle informed)
- (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
- (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
- For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.
- (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
- To act as an informer; denounce.
- (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
- (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
- (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
- (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
Synonyms
- (communicate knowledge to (trans.)): acquaint, apprise, notify; See also Thesaurus:inform
- (act as informer): dob, name names, peach, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
- (take form): materialize, take shape; See also Thesaurus:come into being
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Latin ?nf?rmis
Adjective
inform (not comparable)
- Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotton to this entry?) "Bleak Crags, and naked Hills, And the whole Prospect so inform and rude." (C. Cotton, Wonders of Peake in Poetical Works (1765) 342)
Anagrams
- -formin, F minor, Morfin, formin
Romanian
Etymology
From French informe, from Latin informis.
Adjective
inform m or n (feminine singular inform?, masculine plural informi, feminine and neuter plural informe)
- deformed
Declension
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teach
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?t??/
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijan? (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey?- (“to show”). Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin d?c? (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek ???????? (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”). More at token.
Verb
teach (third-person singular simple present teaches, present participle teaching, simple past and past participle taught)
- (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
- c1450, Mandeville's Travels?
- Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.
- c1460, Cursor Mundi?
- Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.
- c1450, Mandeville's Travels?
- (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
- Synonyms: educate, instruct
- (intransitive) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
- Antonym: learn
- (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
- (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
References
- The Middle English Dictionary
- NED
Etymology 2
Clipping of teacher
Noun
teach (plural teaches)
- (informal, usually as a term of address) teacher
Anagrams
- 'tache, Tache, Taché, Tâche, chate, cheat, he-cat, tache, theca
Irish
Alternative forms
- tigh dative; has replaced the nominative in Munster Irish
- toigh (Ulster) dative; replaced the nominative in East Ulster.
Etymology
From Old Irish tech, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *tegos (“cover, roof”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ax/
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /t?æ?x/
Noun
teach m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)
- house
Declension
- Alternative genitive singular: tighe, toighe
- Alternative dative singular: toigh
- Alternative plural: tithí (Ulster)
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- "teach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “tea?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 724.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tech, teg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “teach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “teach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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Etymology
From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an, from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan.
Verb
teach (simple past teigkt or teight)
- to hand or give
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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