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Difference Between Educate and Inform

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Educate

Give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone), typically at a school or university
She was educated at a boarding school

Inform

Inform is a programming language and design system for interactive fiction originally created in 1993 by Graham Nelson. Inform can generate programs designed for the Z-code or Glulx virtual machines.

Educate

To develop the mental, moral, or social capabilities of, especially by schooling or instruction.

Inform

To impart information to; make aware of something
We were informed by mail of the change in plans. The nurse informed me that visiting hours were over.

Educate

To provide with knowledge or training in a particular area or for a particular purpose
Decided to educate herself in foreign languages.
Entered a seminary to be educated for the priesthood.

Inform

To acquaint (oneself) with knowledge of a subject.
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Educate

To provide with information, as in an effort to gain support for a position or to influence behavior
Hoped to educate the voters about the need for increased spending on public schools.

Inform

To give form or character to; imbue with a quality or an essence
"A society's strength is measured by ... its ability to inform a future generation with its moral standards" (Vanity Fair).

Educate

To develop or refine (one's taste or appreciation, for example).

Inform

To be a formative or characterizing presence in; animate
"It is this brash, backroom sensibility that informs his work as a novelist" (Jeff Shear).

Educate

To teach or instruct a person or group.

Inform

(Obsolete) To form (the mind or character) by teaching or training.
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Educate

To instruct or train

Inform

To give or provide information.

Educate

To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

Inform

To disclose confidential or incriminating information to an authority
The defendant informed against the other members of the ring.

Educate

Give an education to;
We must educate our youngsters better

Inform

To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).

Educate

Create by training and teaching;
The old master is training world-class violinists
We develop the leaders for the future

Inform

(transitive) To communicate knowledge to.

Educate

Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;
Cultivate your musical taste
Train your tastebuds
She is well schooled in poetry

Inform

(intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.

Inform

To act as an informer; denounce.

Inform

(transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
His sense of religion informs everything he writes.

Inform

To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.

Inform

To direct, guide.

Inform

To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.

Inform

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

Inform

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

Inform

To give form or share to; to give vital or organizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.
Let others better mold the running massOf metals, and inform the breathing brass.
Breath informs this fleeting frame.
Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part.

Inform

To communicate knowledge to; to make known to; to acquaint; to advise; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; - usually followed by of.
For he would learn their business secretly,And then inform his master hastily.
I am informed thoroughly of the cause.

Inform

To communicate a knowledge of facts to, by way of accusation; to warn against anybody.
Tertullus . . . informed the governor against Paul.

Inform

To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
It is the bloody business which informsThus to mine eyes.

Inform

To give intelligence or information; to tell.
He might either teach in the same manner, or inform how he had been taught.

Inform

Impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to;
I informed him of his rights

Inform

Give character or essence to;
The principles that inform modern teaching

Inform

Act as an informer;
She had informed on her own parents for years

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