INFORMとは

意味・読み方・使い方

アナグラム

• formin

語源 1

From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin informare (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + forma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- +‎ form.

別の表記

• enform (廃れた用法)

動詞

inform (三人称単数 現在形 informs, 現在分詞 informing, 過去形および過去分詞形 informed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
2. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
   • Spenser

     For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.

   • Shakespeare

     I am informed thoroughly of the cause.

3. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
4. To act as an informer; denounce.
5. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.

   His sense of religion informs everything he writes.

   • Dryden

     Let others better mould the running mass / Of metals, and inform the breathing brass.

   • Prior

     Breath informs this fleeting frame.

6. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
8. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
   • Shakespeare

     It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes.

同意語

• (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

派生語

語源 2

Latin informis

形容詞

inform (not comparable)

1. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Cotton to this entry?)

アナグラム

• F minor, Morfin, formin