Information

Noun

 * 1) Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
 * I need some more information about this issue.
 * 1) The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
 * For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
 * 1)  A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
 * 2)  The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
 * 3)  The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
 * 4)  The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
 * 5)  Divine inspiration.
 * 6)  Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
 * 7) A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
 * 8) As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data.
 * And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information.

Derived terms

 * FYI
 * info
 * informationism
 * informationist
 * informational
 * information model
 * information overload


 * information retrieval
 * information science
 * information security
 * information society
 * information superhighway


 * information system
 * information technology
 * information theory
 * information velocity
 * perfect information

Related terms

 * inform
 * informant
 * informatics
 * knowledge

Adjectives for Information
instructional; imparted; common; broiling; miscellaneous; superficial; authentic; precise; vague; coordinating; scanty; solid; criminal; practical; household; substantial; summarized; trustworthy; factual; accurate; elusive; genuine; scientific; encouraging; Inviting; astounding; exact; useful; further; detailed; comprehensive; false; up-to-the-minute; startling; practical; reliable; usable; behlnd-the-scenes; understandable; fallacious; gloomy; Invaluable; superfluous; curious; anterior; accumulated; tabulated; profit-building; current; comparative; restricted; dogmatic; fascinating; unpleasant.

Verbs for Information
abound in—; absorb—; accumulate—; acquire—; authenticize—; bear—; buttress—; clamor for—; compile—; contribute—; convey—; coordinate—; correlate—; derive—; dig out—; digest—; dispense—; disseminate—; distort—; divulge—; elicit—; falsify —; garner—; glean—; impart—; misinterpret—; plead for—; prod for—; pump for —; relay—; rely on—; retail—; solicit—.

Thesaurus
ALGOL, COBOL, ESP, FORTRAN, accusal, accusation, accusing, acquaintance, advice, allegation, allegement, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, angular data, answer, arraignment, assembler, bail, bill of particulars, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit, blame, brass tacks, bringing of charges, bringing to book, broadcast journalism, bug, byte, catechization, charge, coaching, command pulses, commands, commerce, communication, communion, compiler, complaint, computer code, computer language, computer program, congress, connection, contact, control signals, controlled quantity, conversation, converse, corpus, correcting signals, correspondence, count, data, datum, dealing, dealings, delation, denouncement, denunciation, didactics, direction, dirt, dope, edification, education, enlightenment, error, error signals, essential facts, essentials, exchange, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, familiarity, feedback pulses, feedback signals, film data, gen, guidance, hexadecimal system, illumination, impeachment, implication, imputation, indictment, info, innuendo, input data, input quantity, insinuation, instruction, instructions, intelligence, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, intimacy, journalism, ken, know-how, knowing, knowledge, lawsuit, laying of charges, linguistic intercourse, lore, low-down, machine language, message, multiple messages, news, news agency, news medium, news service, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine, newspaper, newsworthiness, noise, numeric data, octal system, oscillograph data, output data, output quantity, pedagogics, pedagogy, plaint, play, polar data, poop, practical knowledge, presentment, press association, private knowledge, private teaching, privity, programmed instruction, prosecution, punch-card data, radio, random data, ratio cognoscendi, rectangular data, reeducation, reference quantity, reply, report, reportage, reproach, response, ruly English, schooling, science, self-instruction, self-knowledge, self-teaching, signals, single messages, social intercourse, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, spoon-feeding, suit, talking, taxing, teaching, technic, technics, technique, telegraph agency, telepathy, television, the data, the details, the dope, the facts, the fourth estate, the information, the particulars, the picture, the press, the scoop, the score, the specifics, the whole story, tidings, touch, traffic, truck, true bill, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, two-way communication, unorganized data, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation, visible-speech data, wire service, wisdom, word

Etymology
From informacioun:, enformation: et al.,  informacion:, enformacion: et al. (French: information:), and their source,  informatio:, from the participle stem of informare:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: inligting, informasie
 * Albanian: informacion
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, տեղեկություն
 * Azeri: məlumat
 * Basque: informazio
 * Belarusian: інфармацыя
 * Breton: ditour (1), keloù  (1, 2)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: informació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: information, informationer
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ცნობება, შეტყობინება
 * German:, Auskunft
 * Greek: πληροφορία, πληροφορίες
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: felvilágosítás, tájékoztatás,
 * Ido: informo
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 안내,
 * Latin:, , ,
 * Latvian: informācija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Aukštaitian:
 * Malay: informasi, maklumat
 * Malayalam: അറിവ് (aRivu), വിവരം (vivaram)
 * Marathi: माहिती (māhitī)
 * Mongolian: ѳгѳгдѳл
 * Norwegian: informasjon
 * Persian:, آگاهی, ,  استحضار
 * Samogitian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: infurmaziun
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: informacija, informacije
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: impormasyon
 * Thai: ข่าว,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: інформація
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: thông tin
 * Welsh: gwybodaeth
 * Welsh: gwybodaeth

Noun

 * 1) information
 * 2) news, a piece of information
 * Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.
 * Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.

Synonyms

 * renseignement
 * nouvelle

Related terms

 * informateur, infomatrice
 * informaticien
 * informatif
 * informationnel
 * informatique
 * informatiser
 * informer

Noun

 * 1) information

Noun

 * 1) information

Related terms

 * info
 * informant
 * informationsavdelning
 * informatör
 * informera
 * turistinformation