| 单词 | notify |
| 释义 | notify (once / 749 pages) v To notify is to officially give someone a piece of information. If your poem wins the local poetry competition, the judges will notify you that you're the winner. When you notify someone about something, it can be good or bad news. New parents notify friends and family about their baby's birth. When a library's money problems force it to close on Sundays, it might notify its patrons with an email or a letter. Notify comes from the Latin notificare, "to make known," which stems from notus, "known," and facere, "make or do." WORD FAMILYnotify: notifiable, notification, notified, notifies, notifying+/notice: noticeable, noticed, noticer, notices, noticing, notify/noticeable: noticeability, noticeableness, noticeably, unnoticeable/noticed: unnoticed/notification: notifications/unnoticeable: unnoticeableness, unnoticeably/unnoticed: unnoticedly USAGE EXAMPLESAuthorities are trying to identify the victim and notify the family. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Police say the name of the man is being withheld until his relatives are notified. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) “After the election, the current administration notified us there would be a hiring freeze as of Dec. 1,” he said. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) v inform (somebody) of something Syn|Hyper advise, apprise, apprize, give notice, send word inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
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