different between reporter vs informer
reporter
English
Alternative forms
- reportor (obsolete)
- reportour (obsolete)
Etymology
report +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???p??t?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???p??t?/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po(?)?t?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po?t?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
Noun
reporter (plural reporters)
- Someone or something that reports.
- The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
- A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
- A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
- (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
- (biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- ? Catalan: repòrter
- ? Greek: ???????? (repórter)
Anagrams
- repertor, rereport
Catalan
Alternative forms
- repòrter
Etymology
reportar +? -er
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /r?.po??te/
- (Central) IPA(key): /r?.pur?te/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /re.po??te?/
Noun
reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)
- reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)
Further reading
- “reporter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “reporter” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “reporter” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “reporter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cebuano
Etymology
From English reporter.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: re?por?ter
Noun
reporter
- someone or something that reports
- a journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television
Danish
Noun
reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)
- (journalism) a reporter, a journalist
Inflection
Verb
reporter
- imperativ of reportere
Related terms
- reportage
- reportere
French
Etymology 1
re- +? porter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.p??.te/
Verb
reporter
- (literally) to carry something back to where it was
- (literally) to wear again
- to transfer (an emotion)
- Reporter son amour sur quelqu'un — To transfer one's love to somebody
- to put back; to put off; to postpone
- Après avoir été reportées de nombreuses fois, les épreuves ont finalement eu lieu.
- (usually impersonal) to carry or take back in time
- Il faut se reporter au mois dernier pour comprendre. — We have to go back in time a month to understand.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to refer; to check
- Pour mieux saisir le problème, on se reportera au chapitre 4. — To better understand the issue, the reader is referred to chapter 4.
- (mathematics and finance) to carry over or forward
- Cet idiot avait oublié de reporter un 3! — That idiot forgot to carry over a 3!
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.p??.t??/
Noun
reporter m or f (plural reporters)
- A news reporter; a journalist.
Derived terms
- grand reporter
- journaliste reporter d'images
Usage notes
- The word is much less frequent in Quebec, where it is seen as an anglicism, words like journaliste, correspondant or envoyé are preferred.
See also
- reporteur
Further reading
- “reporter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English reporter.
Noun
reporter m or f (invariable)
- reporter (journalist)
Latin
Verb
reporter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of report?
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English reporter.
Noun
reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reportere, definite plural reporterne)
- (journalism) a reporter
Derived terms
- krigsreporter
Related terms
- reportasje
References
- “reporter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English reporter.
Noun
reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reporterar, definite plural reporterane)
- (journalism) a reporter
Derived terms
- krigsreporter
Related terms
- reportasje
References
- “reporter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
re- +? porter.
Verb
reporter
- to bring back
- to gain; to get (take possession of)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
References
- reporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Polish
Etymology
From English reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r??p?r.t?r/
Noun
reporter m pers (feminine reporterka)
- reporter
Declension
Further reading
- reporter in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French reporter.
Noun
reporter m (plural reporteri)
- reporter, journalist
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rep?rte?r/
- Hyphenation: re?por?ter
Noun
repòrt?r m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)
- reporter (journalist who investigates)
Declension
reporter From the web:
- what reporter died today
- what reporter left fox news
- what reporter just died
- what reporter was fired from abc news
informer
English
Alternative forms
- informor (obsolete, rare)
- informour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
inform +? -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(r)m?(r)
Noun
informer (plural informers)
- One who informs someone else about something.
- A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
- One who informs, animates, or inspires.
- 1729, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sophonisba (by James Thomson
- Nature, informer of the poet's art.
- 1729, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sophonisba (by James Thomson
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:informant
Translations
See also
- name names
Anagrams
- reinform, reniform
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nf?rm?, ?nf?rm?re.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.f??.me/
Verb
informer
- to inform; to enlighten; to impart knowledge (upon)
- (reflexive) to inquire
Conjugation
Related terms
- information
- former
Further reading
- “informer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
?nf?rmer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ?nf?rm?
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
informer
- imperative of informere
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