Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To give notice to; inform.
- transitive verb Chiefly British To give notice of; make known.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To publish; proclaim; give notice or information of; make known.
- To make note of; observe.
- To give notice to; inform by words or writing, in person or by message, or by any signs which are understood: as, the public are hereby notified.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make known; to declare; to publish.
- transitive verb To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To give (someone)
notice of (something).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb inform (somebody) of something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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You make a promise, you keep that promise; if you cannot, then the first person you should notify is the person you made the promise to.
Jenny Sanford on her husband: 'The ball is in his court' 2009
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If it receives a SyntaxError, then call the notify the syntax error handler of it, and in an attempt to reset/restart - move ahead one space in the input, and recur.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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If it receives a SyntaxError, then call the notify the syntax error handler of it, and in an attempt to reset/restart - move ahead one space in the input, and recur.
A Scala Lexer Jack Cough 2009
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It then immediately sleeps for two seconds to allow both threads to become blocked by the wait() method in run(), calls the notify() method to wake up one of the threads, and then sleeps for another two seconds.
Heap dump and harddisk space shortage « Digital Kaleidascope 2007
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Adverse possessors can even register the bills in their name and notify the bank, previous homeowner or neighbors of their intent.
FOXNews.com Stephen Clark 2011
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I installed a MOD called notify moderators yesterday before I left so that moderators will get emails when there are new posts that need to be approved.
phpBB.com 2009
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Pidgin, Gwibber and Banshee are only some of the applications that will take advantage of this notification framework (called notify-osd).
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I am simply requesting that [collection company] follow up on their promise (as quoted from the back side of the collection notice) "this office will obtain verification of the debt" I want a copy of the water and sewer bill in question, or signed documentation showing that I was notified of an increase in rent costs due to the addition of water and sewer charges. [collection company] has not, in three months, provided this proof or even returned my calls notify me that any kind of research is being done.
rainandfire Diary Entry rainandfire 2003
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Rick Kagan, executive vice president and general manager at Infoblox, says IF-MAP 2.0 adds a so-called "notify" operation to enable an IF-MAP server to support message-bus functionality in addition to publish/subscribe database functionality.
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The first estimate for the new Assembly Building in Cardiff was a lot less that that- so I thought I would 'notify' the people of this major impact on next year's budget by press release.
Archive 2006-10-01 Glyn Davies 2006
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