| inform | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| ~ wise up | cause someone to become aware of something. |
| ~ communicate, intercommunicate | transmit thoughts or feelings.; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" |
| ~ instruct, teach, learn | impart skills or knowledge to.; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" |
| ~ apprise, apprize, instruct | make aware of.; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?" |
| ~ inoculate | introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of.; "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs" |
| ~ acquaint | inform.; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move" |
| ~ warn | notify, usually in advance.; "I warned you that I would ask some difficult questions" |
| ~ inform | act as an informer.; "She had informed on her own parents for years" |
| ~ fill in | supply with information on a specific topic.; "He filled me in on the latest developments" |
| ~ update | bring up to date; supply with recent information. |
| ~ misinform, mislead | give false or misleading information to. |
| ~ downplay, minimise, understate, minimize | represent as less significant or important. |
| ~ shit, tell on, snitch, stag, denounce, give away, shop, betray, grass, rat | give away information about somebody.; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" |
| ~ undeceive | free from deception or illusion. |
| ~ warn | notify of danger, potential harm, or risk.; "The director warned him that he might be fired"; "The doctor warned me about the dangers of smoking" |
| ~ apprise, apprize, notify, send word, advise, give notice | inform (somebody) of something.; "I advised him that the rent was due" |
| ~ familiarise, familiarize, acquaint | make familiar or conversant with.; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings" |
| ~ cue, remind, prompt | assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned. |
| ~ volunteer | tell voluntarily.; "He volunteered the information" |
| ~ acquaint, introduce, present | cause to come to know personally.; "permit me to acquaint you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the community" |
| ~ regret | express with regret.; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard" |
| ~ point, indicate, designate, show | indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively.; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents" |
| ~ indicate | to state or express briefly.; "indicated his wishes in a letter" |
| ~ suggest, indicate | suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine.; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" |
| ~ nark | inform or spy (for the police). |
| ~ explain, explicate | make plain and comprehensible.; "He explained the laws of physics to his students" |
| ~ tell | let something be known.; "Tell them that you will be late" |
| ~ recount, narrate, tell, recite | narrate or give a detailed account of.; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" |
| ~ narrate | provide commentary for a film, for example. |
| ~ report, describe, account | to give an account or representation of in words.; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental" |
| ~ report | make known to the authorities.; "One student reported the other to the principal" |
| ~ report, cover | be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism.; "Snow reported on China in the 1950's"; "The cub reporter covered New York City" |
| ~ announce, denote | make known; make an announcement.; "She denoted her feelings clearly" |
| ~ disabuse | free somebody (from an erroneous belief). |
| ~ remonstrate, point out | present and urge reasons in opposition. |
| ~ bear witness, evidence, testify, prove, show | provide evidence for.; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence" |
| v. (change) | 2. inform | give character or essence to.; "The principles that inform modern teaching" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (communication) | 3. inform | act as an informer.; "She had informed on her own parents for years" |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| ~ evidence, tell | give evidence.; "he was telling on all his former colleague" |
| notify | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. advise, apprise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word | inform (somebody) of something.; "I advised him that the rent was due" |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| loop | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. cringle, eyelet, grommet, grummet, loop | fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines. |
| ~ fastening, holdfast, fastener, fixing | restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place. |
| n. (shape) | 2. loop | anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself). |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration. |
| ~ belt | endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys. |
| ~ drip loop | a downward hanging loop in a line that runs to a building.; "when it rained water would fall from the drip loop before it reached the building" |
| ~ running noose, slip noose, noose | a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled. |
| ~ lobe | the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern. |
| ~ jordan curve, simple closed curve | a closed curve that does not intersect itself. |
| ~ bight | a loop in a rope. |
| n. (process) | 3. iteration, loop | (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated.; "the solution took hundreds of iterations" |
| ~ physical process, process | a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| n. (group) | 4. loop | an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan).; "he's no longer in the loop" |
| ~ clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp, pack | an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. |
| n. (communication) | 5. loop | the basic pattern of the human fingerprint. |
| ~ fingerprint | a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations. |
| n. (communication) | 6. loop | a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied. |
| ~ computer program, computer programme, programme, program | (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute.; "the program required several hundred lines of code" |
| n. (cognition) | 7. loop, loop topology | the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component. |
| ~ network topology, topology | the configuration of a communication network. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. loop | an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop. |
| ~ intrauterine device, iud | contraceptive device consisting of a piece of bent plastic or metal that is inserted through the vagina into the uterus. |
| n. (artifact) | 9. closed circuit, loop | a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates. |
| ~ circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow. |
| ~ parallel circuit, shunt circuit | a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit. |
| n. (act) | 10. loop, loop-the-loop | a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane. |
| ~ inside loop | a loop consisting of a climb followed by inverted flight followed by a dive that returns to horizontal flight. |
| ~ outside loop | a loop consisting of a dive followed by inverted flight followed by a climb that returns to horizontal flight. |
| ~ airplane maneuver, flight maneuver | a maneuver executed by an aircraft. |
| v. (motion) | 11. loop | move in loops.; "The bicycle looped around the tree" |
| ~ circle, circulate | move in circles. |
| v. (creation) | 12. intertwine, loop | make a loop in.; "loop a rope" |
| ~ entwine, knit | tie or link together. |
| ~ crochet, hook | make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.; "She sat there crocheting all day" |
| ~ noose | make a noose in or of. |
| v. (motion) | 13. loop | fly loops, perform a loop.; "the stunt pilot looped his plane" |
| ~ circle, circulate | move in circles. |
| v. (contact) | 14. coil, curl, loop | wind around something in coils or loops. |
| ~ twine, wrap, wind, roll | arrange or or coil around.; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child" |
| v. (contact) | 15. loop | fasten or join with a loop.; "He looped the watch through his belt" |
| ~ tie, bind | fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.; "They tied their victim to the chair" |
| needlefish | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. billfish, gar, needlefish | elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters. |
| ~ teleost, teleost fish, teleostan | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei. |
| ~ belonidae, family belonidae | ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars. |
| ~ timucu | found in warm waters of western Atlantic. |
| n. (animal) | 2. needlefish, pipefish | fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates. |
| ~ family syngnathidae, syngnathidae | pipefishes. |
| ~ dwarf pipefish, syngnathus hildebrandi | small (4 inches) fish found off the Florida Gulf Coast. |
| ~ cosmocampus profundus, deepwater pipefish | a fish 8 inches long; found from eastern Florida to western Caribbean. |
| ~ sea horse, seahorse | small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position. |
| ~ teleost, teleost fish, teleostan | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei. |
| widow | | |
| n. (person) | 1. widow, widow woman | a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried. |
| ~ dowager | a widow holding property received from her deceased husband. |
| ~ war widow | a woman whose husband has died in war. |
| ~ adult female, woman | an adult female person (as opposed to a man).; "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
| v. (change) | 2. widow | cause to be without a spouse.; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia" |
| ~ leave behind, leave | be survived by after one's death.; "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats" |
| widower | | |
| n. (person) | 1. widower, widowman | a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried. |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
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