different between information vs poster

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.]
12. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
13. As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
14. (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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po?st?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(r)

Etymology 1

post +? -er

Noun

poster (plural posters)

1. A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.

2. An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.

3. (Internet) One who posts a message.

4. (Australian rules football, informal) A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
5. (ice hockey, slang) A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.

Derived terms

• OP
• posterboard
• poster paint

Descendants

Translations

Verb

poster (third-person singular simple present posters, present participle postering, simple past and past participle postered)

1. (transitive) To decorate with posters.

Etymology 2

post +? -er, from post (“travel, dispatch”).

Noun

poster (plural posters)

1. (dated) A posthorse.
   • 1854, Charles Lever, The Dodd Family Abroad

     we whirled along with four posters at a gallop

2. (archaic) A swift traveller; a courier.

Anagrams

• Portes, Presto, Strope, e-sport, eSport, esport, opster, opters, petros, presto, repost, repots, respot, sprote, topers, tropes

Dutch

Etymology 1

From posten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pos?ter
• Rhymes: -?st?r

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. A trade union member who is on the lookout to deter strikebreakers.
   • 1923, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Maandschrift, vol. 18, page 833.

   • 1931, Mary Heaton Vorse, Staking, page 134.

   • 1955, Albertus Spruit, Stakingsrecht in het kader van de arbeidsovereenkomst, page 98.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pos?ter
• Rhymes: -o?st?r

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. A poster, an large sheet of printed paper that is hung vertically (e.g. on a wall).
2. A billboard or placard to be posted on a public or private place.

Synonyms

• aanplakbiljet
• affiche

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pos?ter
• Rhymes: -o?st?r

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. A poster, one who posts messages on-line.

Anagrams

• proest, sporte, sproet, sprote

French

Etymology 1

From poste (“mail (service)”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s.te/

Verb

poster

1. (transitive) To post, (put in the) mail

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From poste (“military post”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s.te/

Verb

poster

1. (transitive, military) To post

Etymology 3

From English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s.t??/

Noun

poster m (plural posters)

1. poster (A billboard to be posted on a public or private place)

Synonyms

• affiche

Derived terms

• postériser

Anagrams

• portes, portés

Further reading

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

Norman

Alternative forms

• postaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

From English post + -er.

Verb

poster

1. (Jersey) to post

Swedish

Etymology

From English poster.

Noun

poster c

1. a poster; picture of celebrity, activity etc. to be posted
2. indefinite plural of post

Declension

References

• poster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• protes, ropets

Welsh

Etymology

From English poster.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?p?sd?r/, [?p??st?r]
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?p?sdar/, [?p??star]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?p?sd?r/, [?p??st?r]

Noun

poster m (plural posteri)

1. poster (picture or advertisement)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “poster”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies