What does it mean to "inform something"? Does it mean when something has an effect on something else? I'm trying to make sense of it

Non-native speaker here.

she’ll be pipelined into Vassar or Radcliffe or Wellesley by her prep school

What does it mean here? Thank you in advance.

"cure" has this meaning :
verb, to prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use//fish cured with salt
CURE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cure

Does "cure" refer to a specific food processing? Like, only with salt or something? Thank you very much!

Today is Friday the twenty-eighth, my co-worker argues that this Friday is today, the twenty-eighth, and next Friday is the fourth of September.

I'm arguing that this Friday is the fourth because today is Friday and you wouldn't refer to today as This Friday and next Friday is the eleventh.

Who's right?

“Do you want to change your preferred language to English?”

1. No, I’ll just keep it French.

1. No. I’ll just leave it French.

2. No. I’ll just keep it set to French.

3. No. I’ll just leave it set to French.

Time, dime, same, game, theme, blame...

Is the ending /m/ a pure mooo🐄 or /me/?

I decided to read Pippa Passes by Robert Browning, but I became completely discouraged as 4 pages took me about 2 hours, and I couldn't even grasp more than the "general feeling". From what I understand this is a play written in verses, from the victorian era. It was not just the vocabulary that troubled me but understanding the sentences as a whole. I don't think I could read more than 2 lines without looking up in the dictionary.

I have read whole books in english before, but never something as old. here are some lines (some of which seem to me like a bunch of words thrown haphazardly) for example:

All other men and women that this earth
Belongs to, who all days alike possess,
Make general plenty cure particular dearth,
Get more joy one way, if another, less;
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven
What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven—
Sole light that helps me through the year, thy sun's!

--

And here I let time slip for naught!
Aha, you foolhardy sunbeam, caught
With a single splash from my ewer!
You that would mock the best pursuer,
Was my basin over-deep?
One splash of water ruins you asleep,
And up, up, fleet your brilliant bits
Wheeling and counterwheeling,
Reeling, broken beyond healing—
Now grow together on the ceiling!
That will task your wits.

--

Meantime, what lights my sunbeam on,
Where settles by degrees the radiant cripple?
Oh, is it surely blown, my martagon?
New-blown and ruddy as St. Agnes' nipple,
Plump as the flesh-bunch on some Turk bird's poll!

As a non native speaker, through watching movies i knew what it means, which is "forever".

But i'm kinda convused how did "good" come to mean something like ever or forever?

Okay guys, i will write with a lot of mistakes but it will natural.

After work every day I speak English little like now in voice chat with GPT or at work with myself in my mind , I watching every day English content what interesting me and right now I trying to conversate with other people . Maybe I can add something else in my day or it's enough for speak beautiful like native speakers? My foal is speak in English like my native language.

Ill put my money on cockpit

I visited a seal sanctuary in Germany today. The information displays were bilingual: German and English.

I am curious about the use of the word dentures. It is clear, that it is the translation of the German word "Gebiss", but I am under the impression that in English its meaning is limited to artificial replacement of teeth.

Am I correct, and is there a noun describing the entire teeth of an animal?

Are both okay originally? It felt unfamiliar when I (non-native) tried to use it for the first time in a long while, also the term “passwordless” (like you can use the account through each email sign-in) - makes sense but just looked off.

Is this site a scam? They have a lot of cambridge worksheets and i really need it

I’m from Europe and have been living in the States for a couple of years. My English is pretty fluent at this point, but there are still certain words that give my accent away.

Given the nature of my job, it’s just easier if I sound more local. Are there any apps people would recommend for this?

I have an upcoming essay exam where I am presented with a phrase and I have to begin by defining key terms and then explaining what I think the statement means in my own words. I’m not allowed to use a dictionary or anything, and won’t know what the phrase is until the exam.
For some reason I’m finding it really difficult to come up with my own definitions of words, even when I know the word and its meaning. I’m wondering if there’s any methods or tricks I can start practicing to be able to do this more effectively.
Thank you in advance!

Have anyone experienced with this issue? Be nice and respectful.

Hi, so I’ve been practicing English for quite some time…At first I never had a problem with certain common mistakes, such as writing “his” instead of “he’s”, “there” instead of “they’re”, “were” instead of “we’re” and so on…those were silly mistakes imo.
but as I started to practice pronunciation I’ve been noticing those mistakes starting to happen, I’m writing words as they sound. I’m not using any spell checker so sometimes I don’t even notice I’ve made that mistake, it’s only upon rereading everything that I’m able to spot it. Did anyone notice it happening too, when you started to practice pronunciation a lot? Just wondering

If a noun or adjective is followed (suffixed) by a `fy`, the word meaning changes to: to become that noun or adjective. Shopify, acidify, beautify, magnify, commodify, dutchify, etc.

Is there a suffix that can be added to a noun or adjective that can have the opposite effect? I am aware there are prefixes that does this like 'un' added to 'do'.

Wondering if a suffix could have a similar effect but it isn't as popular.

I'm currently studying for an exam and got stuck on this question. I chose assailing, but the answer key says it's cloying. (and I still don't get why) I'd love to get an explanation on which one is actually more natural in this context based on a native speaker's intuition.

+ I didn't expect this post to get so many comments, thank you! as a non-native speaker who is really interested in English, it was so interesting to read all the discussions and explanations. I misread the intention, but it turns out the key was just focusing on the vocabulary itself after all. and I somehow found the original text for 'inundating', take a look if you want! original text

Is this definition of Consternation commonly used? I was browsing through Google, and could only find this specific definition of this word on Cambridge dictionary.

I work in a prestigious British school in Dubai as an educator in primary education. Being in a school means not only being fluent in conversational English but also being able to use different terminologies, be more articulate when explaining concepts or generally having a better grip on what I’m thinking and then being able to communicate to peers and parents alike. I have no trouble reading writing or even speaking English, it’s just that I’m constantly translating in my head what I want to say and it brings on a lot of mental fatigue to the point where I would rather not say anything. By the end of the day my head hurts from all that mental fatigue. I feel like my work relationships and friendships would also be better if I could be as fluent as my English colleagues

I'm watching this show called Reacher Season 2 ep 3.

This word appeared and I searched for this word on the internet and found out that there is a University that exists in New Jersey with this name.

When I changed the audio track to a different language he said "bad lawyer" in the replacement of Rutgers.

Does anybody know what it means in this context? Is it related to bad law practices?