Information
Information
#527. Information. -- N. information, enlightenment, acquaintance,
knowledge &c. 490; publicity &c. 531; data &c. 467.
- communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation,
annunciation; announcement; communique; representation, round robin,
presentment.
- case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news &c. 532;
return &c. (record) 551; account &c. (description) 594; statement &c.
(affirmation) 535.
- mention; acquainting &c. v; instruction &c. (teaching) 537;
outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness.
- informant, authority, teller, intelligencer[obs], reporter, exponent,
mouthpiece;
- informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard[obs],
spy, newsmonger; messenger &c. 534; amicus curiae[Lat].
- valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade
mecum[Latin]; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary &c. (journey)
266.
- hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in
the ear, subaudition[obs], cue, byplay; gesture &c. (indication) 550;
gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti [Latin: a word to the wise];
insinuation &c. (latency) 526.
- information theory.
- [units of information] bit, byte, word, doubleword[Comp], quad word,
paragraph, segment.
- [information storage media] magnetic media, paper medium, optical
media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory, ROM; write once read
mostly memory, WORM.
- V. tell; inform, inform of; acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart
to; make acquaintance with, apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken; transmit.
- let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make
known; publish &c. 531; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of.
- let one know, have one to know; give one to understand; give notice;
set before, lay before, put before; point out, put into one's head; put one
in possession of; instruct &c. (teach) 537; direct the attention to &c.
457.
- announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword[obs], send
word, leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail, render an
account; give an account &c. (describe) 594; state &c. (affirm) 535.
- [disclose inadvertently or reluctantly] let slip, blurt out, spill the
beans, unburden oneself of, let off one's chest; disclose &c. 529.
- show cause; explain &c. (interpret) 522.
- hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint;
insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink &c.
(indicate) 550; suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in
the ear.
- give a bit of one's mind; tell one plainly, tell once for all; speak
volumes.
- undeceive[obs], unbeguile[obs]; set right, correct, open the eyes
of, disabuse, disillusion one of.
- be informed of &c.; know &c. 490; learn &c. 539; get scent of, get wind
of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake
to; hear, overhear, understand.
- come to one's ears, come to one's knowledge; reach one's ears.
- Adj. informed &c. v.; communique; reported &c. v.; published &c. 531.
- expressive &c. 516; explicit &c. (open) 525, (clear) 518; plain spoken
&c, (artless) 703.
- nuncupative, nuncupatory|; declaratory, expository; enunciative[obs];
communicative, communicatory[obs].
- Adv. from information received.
- Phr. a little bird told me; I heard it through the grapevine.