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information

English

Etymology

From Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin ?nf?rm?ti? (formation, conception; education), from the participle stem of ?nform?re (to inform). Compare West Frisian ynformaasje (information), Dutch informatie (information), German Information (information), Danish information (information), Swedish information (information), Norwegian informasjon (information).Morphologically inform +? -ation

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /??nf??me???n/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /??nf??me???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

information (usually uncountable, plural informations)

  1. That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
  2. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]
  3. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
  4. (law) 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. [from 15th c.]
    • 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:
      On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
  5. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
  6. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
  7. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
  8. (computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
  9. (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
  10. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
  11. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
  12. As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
  13. (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]

Usage notes

  • The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession.[1]

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Pages starting with “information”.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

  • information on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • information at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • information in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • information in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin informati?, informati?nis.

Noun

information c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)

  1. (a piece of) information.

Inflection

Derived terms

  • kontaktinformation

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin informati?, informati?nem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.f??.ma.sj??/

Noun

information f (plural informations)

  1. (countable) piece of information; datum
    Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.
  2. (plural only) news
    Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.
  3. (uncountable) information
    Théorie de l'information.

Synonyms

  • (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
  • (news): nouvelles
  • (information): renseignement

Derived terms

  • autoroute de l'information
  • lettre d’information
  • relevé d'informations
  • société de l’information

Related terms

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

Further reading

  • “information” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin informati?, informati?nis.

Pronunciation

Noun

information c

  1. information

Declension

Related terms

  • info
  • informant
  • informationsavdelning
  • informatör
  • informera
  • turistinformation

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dope

English

Etymology

From Dutch doop (thick dipping sauce), from Dutch dopen (to dip), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *d?pen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijan?.

Sense “narcotic drug” originally from viscous opium pastes, “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Related to English dip and German taufen.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [d??p]
  • (US) IPA(key): [do?p]
  • Rhymes: -??p

Noun

dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)

  1. (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
  2. (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
  3. (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
  4. (uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin. [from late 19th c.]
  5. (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. [from early 20th c.]
    Synonym: scoop
  6. (uncountable, fireams) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
  7. (countable, slang) A stupid person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool
  8. (US, Ohio) Dessert topping.

Derived terms

  • dope fiend
  • dope house
  • dope man
  • dope sheet
  • dope slap/dope-slap
  • dope story
  • dopeless

Translations

Verb

dope (third-person singular simple present dopes, present participle doping, simple past and past participle doped)

  1. (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.
    Synonym: administer
  2. (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
  3. (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
  4. (intransitive, now chiefly sports) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
  5. (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

Derived terms

  • dope up

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

dope (comparative doper, superlative dopest)

  1. (slang) Amazing.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:awesome

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • deop, depo, op-ed, oped, p.o.'ed, p.o.ed, pedo, pedo-, pode, poed

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [do?p?]

Verb

dope

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dopen

French

Etymology

From English dope

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?p/

Noun

dope f (plural dopes)

  1. (informal) illicit drug, narcotic

Verb

dope

  1. first-person singular present indicative of doper
  2. third-person singular present indicative of doper
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doper
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of doper
  5. second-person singular imperative of doper

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?do?.p?]

Verb

dope

  1. inflection of dopen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative
    3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Ido

Etymology

From dop +? -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?do.pe/

Adverb

dope

  1. back, behind, aback

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?dope/, [?d?o.pe]

Verb

dope

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dopar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dopar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dopar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dopar.

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