different between inform vs yell
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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yell
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English ?ellen, yellen, from Old English ?iellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellan?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).
Verb
yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)
- (intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
- (transitive) to convey by shouting
- He yelled directions to the party from the car.
- (slang) to tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner)
- If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.
Usage notes
To yell at someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.
Synonyms
- (shout): call, cry, holler, shout
- See also Thesaurus:shout
Derived terms
Related terms
- gale
- yelp
Translations
Noun
yell (plural yells)
- A shout.
- A phrase to be shouted.
- 1912, The Michigan Alumnus (volume 18, page 152)
- After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings […]
- 1912, The Michigan Alumnus (volume 18, page 152)
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).
Adjective
yell (not comparable)
- (Ulster) dry (of cow)
Anagrams
- Lyle
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English yell.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?j?l/
- Hyphenation: yell
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
yell m (plural yells)
- yell, a slogan to be shouted, especially in sports or games (e.g. by players, cheerleaders or the audience)
Related terms
- gil
- gillen
- yellen
Middle English
Noun
yell
- Alternative form of ?elle
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