information

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=for=ma=tion
• COUNT in NET: 8 in 8 verses (in OT : 7 in 7 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

information, n. [F., fr. L. informatio representation, conception. See Inform, v. t.].

•  The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.  [1913 Webster]

  "The active informations of the intellect."  [1913 Webster]
•  Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.  [1913 Webster]

  "Larger opportunities of information."  [1913 Webster]

  "He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle."  [1913 Webster]
•  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.  [1913 Webster]
•  A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log₂10, or 3.323 bits; called also information content. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision.  [PJC]
•  Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

information, n.
1 a something told; knowledge. b (usu. foll. by on, about) items of knowledge; news (the latest information on the crisis).
2 Law (usu. foll. by against) a charge or complaint lodged with a court or magistrate.
3 a the act of informing or telling. b an instance of this.

Idiom

information retrieval the tracing of information stored in books, computers, etc. information science the study of the processes for storing and retrieving information. information theory Math. the quantitative study of the transmission of information by signals etc.

Derivative

informational adj. informationally adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L informatio -onis (as INFORM)

THESAURUS

information

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

ROGET THESAURUS

information

Lawsuit

N lawsuit, suit, action, cause, litigation, suit in law, dispute, citation, arraignment, prosecution, impeachment, accusation, presentment, true bill, indictment, apprehension, arrest, committal, imprisonment, writ, summons, subpoena, latitat, nisi prius, venire, venire facias pleadings, declaration, bill, claim, proces verbal, bill of right, information, corpus delicti, affidavit, state of facts, answer, reply, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder, surrebutter, surrejoinder, suitor, party to a suit, plaintiff, defendant, litigant, hearing, trial, verdict, appeal, appeal motion, writ of error, certiorari, case, decision, precedent, decided case, reports (legal reference works, see reference books), litigious, qui tam, coram judice, sub judice, pendente lite, adhuc sub judice lis est, accedas ad curiam, transeat in exemplum.

Knowledge

N knowledge, cognizance, cognition, cognoscence, acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity, comprehension, apprehension, recognition, appreciation, intuition, conscience, consciousness, perception, precognition, acroamatics, light, enlightenment, glimpse, inkling, glimmer, glimmering, dawn, scent, suspicion, impression, discovery, system of knowledge, body of knowledge, science, philosophy, pansophy, acroama, theory, aetiology, etiology, circle of the sciences, pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine, cyclopedia, encyclopedia, school, tree of knowledge, republic of letters, erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters, literature, book madness, book learning, bookishness, bibliomania, bibliolatry, information, general information, store of knowledge, education, culture, menticulture, attainments, acquirements, acquisitions, accomplishments, proficiency, practical knowledge, liberal education, dilettantism, rudiments, deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning, omniscience, pantology, march of intellect, progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning, schoolmaster abroad, scholar, knowing, cognitive, acroamatic, aware of, cognizant of, conscious of, acquainted with, made acquainted with, privy to, no stranger to, au fait with, au courant, in the secret, up to, alive to, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, let into, apprized of, informed of, undeceived, proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in, conversant with, familiar with, erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated, well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated, enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book- learned, accomplished, omniscient, self-taught, known, ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted, proverbial, familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy, hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace, cognoscible, cognizable, to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge, one's eyes being opened, ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner, to know all is to pardon all, empta dolore docet experientia, gnothi seauton, half our knowledge we must snatch not take, Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher, years teach more than books, knowledge comes but wisdom lingers, knowledge is power, les affaires font les hommes, nec scire fas est omnia, the amassed thought and experience of innumerable, was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss.

Information

N information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge, publicity, data, communication, intimation, notice, notification, enunciation, annunciation, announcement, communiqu_e, representation, round robin, presentment, case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition, news, return, account, statement, mention, acquainting, instruction, outpouring, intercommunication, communicativeness, informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece, informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective, sleuth, mouchard, spy, newsmonger, messenger, amicus curiae, valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide, guidebook, handbook, vade mecum, manual, map, plan, chart, gazetteer, itinerary, hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay, gesture, gentle hint, broad hint, verbum sapienti, a word to the wise, insinuation, information theory, bit, byte, word, doubleword, quad word, paragraph, segment, magnetic media, paper medium, optical media, random access memory, RAM, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, informed, communique, reported, published, expressive, explicit plain spoken, (artless), nuncupative, nuncupatory, declaratory, expository, enunciative, communicative, communicatory, from information received, a little bird told me, I heard it through the grapevine.

News

N news, information, piece of news, budget of news, budget of information, intelligence, tidings, word, advice, aviso, message, dispatch, despatch, telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy, report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame, talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping, town tattle, table talk, tittle tattle, canard, topic of the day, idea afloat, bulletin, fresh news, stirring news, glad tidings, flash, news just in, on-the-spot coverage, live coverage, old story, old news, stale news, stale story, chestnut, narrator, newsmonger, scandalmonger, talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler, journalism, media, news media, the press, the information industry, newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication, radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission), United Press International, UPI, Associated Press, AP, The Dow Jones News Service, DJ, The New York Times News Service, NYT, Reuters, TASS, The Nikkei, newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department, anchorman, anchorwoman, sportscaster, weatherman, press secretary, public relations department, public relations man, many-tongued, rumored, publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported, rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town, in progress, live, on the spot, in person, as the story goes, as the story runs, as they say, it is said, by telegraph, by wireless, airy tongues that syllable men's names, what's up?, what's the latest?, what's new?, what's the latest poop?.