Word Finder - informant

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One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

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A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.

They know about " men who brought the sun," but their doctrines are revealed in mysteries, and Qing, the informant of Mr Orpen (Cape Monthly Magazine, July 1874), " did not dance that dance " - that is, had not been initiated into all the secret doctrines of his tribe.

Yes If the informant played chanter or sang should that be noted?

Some of the details given by Procopius, in regard for instance to the treatment of infants, show that his informant was acquainted with certain characteristic customs of the Lapps.

In receiving this kind of evidence, then, we need to know the character of our informant, his means of communicating with the heathen, his power of testing evidence, and his good faith.

When with due circumspection Napoleon was informed that Moscow was empty, he looked angrily at his informant, turned away, and silently continued to walk to and fro.

The Informant!, a 2009 comedy, received several nominations for Matt Damon's performance in the film.

Hence he must always be rigorously checked where other authorities exist arid used with caution where he is our sole informant.

An informant of Goldsmith saw him once "run naked through the park in a state of intoxication."

The diplomatist has therefore lost one of his chief functions as an informant of the accrediting government.

Other passages might be pointed out in which it is suitable to suppose that this disciple in particular was the informant.

Considering the circumstances under which he wrote, it can only be matter for congratulation that such a man should have become our informant and that his work has been preserved to us.

Someone other than the person enumerated may have provided the information, or the informant may have been uncertain, uninterested, or deceitful.

My anonymous informant brings a welcome report on Abbey Coaches.

Students are required to find out about a language of their choice from a native speaker informant.

Later he was framed for murder on the evidence of a police informant.

Nutting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne--he pronounced it Bugine--which my informant used to borrow.

Six people were originally arrested based almost entirely on the testimony of one police informant, Jacob Ferguson.

At one point, the controversial star was suspected by industry insiders as being a police informant, and did play one in the movie Caught in the Crossfire.

This account Papias had derived, he tells us, from an informant who had heard it repeatedly given by "the elder," a Christian of the first generation.

But from whomsoever the expression proceeds - whether from Papias, or his informant, or "the elder"- we may feel sure that considerations such as appeal to us from our training in historical criticism are not those which suggested it, but rather the want of agreement between this Gospel and some standard which on altogether different grounds was applied to it.

If Lisa was involved with both Spencer and Mertz, maybe she was an informant for Spenser.