NOTIFY (notified)

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Irregular inflected form: notified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does notify mean? 

• NOTIFY (verb)
  The verb NOTIFY has 1 sense:

1. inform (somebody) of something

  Familiarity information: NOTIFY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOTIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they notify    ... he / she / it notifies   
Past simple: notified   
Past participle: notified   
-ing form: notifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inform (somebody) of something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advise; apprise; apprize; give notice; notify; send word

Context example:

I advised him that the rent was due

Hypernyms (to "notify" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

notice (an announcement containing information about an event)

notice (a request for payment)

notifiable (requiring that official notification be given)

notification (a request for payment)

notification (informing by words)

 Context examples 

I had not notified to Mrs. Fairfax the exact day of my return; for I did not wish either car or carriage to meet me at Millcote.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Vanhoef notified vendors about the flaw in July, including UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)

All known cases must be reported to the CDC, but officials there estimate that they are notified of fewer than half of the 800,000 new cases each year.

(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)

There were no relatives at hand; and as Arthur had to be back the next day to attend at his father's funeral, we were unable to notify any one who should have been bidden.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Backtracking the path through IceCube indicated where in the sky the neutrino came from, and automated alerts notified astronomers around the globe to search this region for flares or outbursts that could be associated with the event.

(NASA’s Fermi Traces Source of Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole, NASA)

In response to a telephone inquiry, we received nothing more definite than a fulmination against the Press, ending up with the remark that if we would notify our boat he would hand us any directions which he might think it proper to give us at the moment of starting.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)