Word Finder - information

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That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".

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Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

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I need some more information about this issue.

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The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

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For your information, I did this because I wanted to.

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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.

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The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

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The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

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The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.

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[…] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

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Divine inspiration.

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A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.

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Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

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As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.

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(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

Getting information about him from Katie is too much work.

Of course, she knew Alex well enough now to know he didn't like people to hand out information about him.

We don't always get timely information ourselves.

With information, we will distribute better.

There was helpful information for us to improve observation techniques.

So far, she seemed to be his best source of information, anyway.

The unexpected information was coming so fast it was hard to absorb.

People will only contribute to the extent that their most personal information is protected.

You're not leaving here until I get the information I came for.

You processed the information through your ears.

She felt deceitful pumping Mrs. Marsh for information about Brandon's plans, but it was the perfect opportunity.

It took three tries before we were satisfied our information was in believing hands.

This is made possible by technology and the Internet, which is used to connect buyers and sellers worldwide and bring information (world commodity prices) to the far reaches of the globe.

Where do you get your information from?

I was thinking about buying a new vehicle and wondered if we had the money, so I looked at his financial information on the computer.

She had provided all the information he needed through Connie.

He now knew there were five of us although no other information was conveyed to him.

Birth information showed her age at twenty-six.

Strange he would want to defend Howard after he had tried to dig up information on him.

He anguished over the possibility, fearful he would be so horror-stricken he'd wake and miss the telling information that would lead to a capture.

We need detailed and timely information of any and all abductions, anywhere in the country.

Information plus sophisticated markets make this possible.

The treasures of a new, beautiful world were laid at my feet, and I took in pleasure and information at every turn.

Besides, as a result of the frequent and rapid change of position by each army, even what information was obtained could not be delivered in time.

I proceeded to relate the information Martha had conveyed.

You won't know how many people are involved or how the information is obtained.

Monuments, shrines, and legacy information is placed throughout the area.

Insightful and qualified staff provides beer novices much-needed information about the brewery's unique beer catalog.

Betsy had confessed to Mr. Cooms her frustration over the lack of information regarding the outcome of our tips.

Let's say I'm passing on information but I'm close enough to vouch for its accuracy.

But you sent him to get information about Yancey, didn't you?

She sent to Bartlesville for information on the pediatrics ward and hinted at interest in a job there.

We conveyed the meager information to a national tip line, fearing it might be too little too late.

Information had no listing.

I knew a lot more information that might help you.

Hopefully she hadn't repeated the information.

Neither did Death sit back and wait to discover the information he needed to do his job.

The information was coming in too fast - and erratic.

If he can get us better and timelier information and direct us to the best place to call in our tips, we're miles ahead.

He pried the information from her mind.

The interest in spiritualism, apart from scientific curiosity and mere love of the marvellous, is partly due to the belief that trustworthy information and advice about mundane matters can be obtained through mediums - to the same impulse in fact which has in all ages attracted inquirers to fortune-tellers.

His former doctor and private secretary, Baron Stockmar (q.v.), a man of encyclopaedic - information and remarkable judgment, who had given special.

The work is throughout characterized by an abundant supply of learning and of information as to the history and the state of the Church of England at that time, and by great dialectical acuteness.

Search engines have done a fabulous job tackling this problem, even given the vast, vast, amounts of information added to the Internet every day.

The French directory, which possessed information from Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Arthur O'Connor confirming Tone, prepared to despatch an expedition under Hoche.

Later chroniclers indulged in the fictitious and the marvellous, and it is almost exclusively from his own books that trustworthy information can be obtained.

As regards the members of the school, the separate articles On Antisthenes, Crates, Diogenes and Demetrius contain all biographical information.

Bede gives no information about its origin except that its earliest settlers were Angles.

With regard to the western boundary we have no accurate information, but it was probably formed by the fens of Cambridgeshire.

A good deal of the information in regard to his doctrines has been gathered from the later Greek philosophy, which was deeply influenced by it.