| information | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. info, information | a message received and understood. |
| ~ ammunition | information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint.; "his admission provided ammunition for his critics" |
| ~ factoid | something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print. |
| ~ subject matter, content, message, substance | what a communication that is about something is about. |
| ~ misinformation | information that is incorrect. |
| ~ material | information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form.; "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography" |
| ~ details, inside information | true confidential information.; "after the trial he gave us the real details" |
| ~ fact | a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened.; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts" |
| ~ data format, data formatting, format, formatting | the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing). |
| ~ gen | informal term for information.; "give me the gen on your new line of computers" |
| ~ database | an organized body of related information. |
| ~ news, tidings, word, intelligence | information about recent and important events.; "they awaited news of the outcome" |
| ~ news | informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone.; "it was news to me" |
| ~ nuts and bolts | detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished. |
| ~ intelligence information, intelligence | secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy).; "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" |
| ~ confirmation | information that confirms or verifies. |
| ~ insider information | important information about the plans or condition of a corporation that has not been released to the public; use for personal profit is illegal. |
| ~ arcanum, secret | information known only to a special group.; "the secret of Cajun cooking" |
| ~ secret | something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on).; "the combination to the safe was a secret"; "he tried to keep his drinking a secret" |
| ~ propaganda | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause. |
| ~ course of study, curriculum, syllabus, programme, program | an integrated course of academic studies.; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" |
| ~ news | information reported in a newspaper or news magazine.; "the news of my death was greatly exaggerated" |
| ~ evidence | (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved. |
| ~ read-out, readout | the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device. |
| ~ tabular matter, tabulation | information set out in tabular form. |
| ~ skinny | confidential information about a topic or person.; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner" |
| ~ stuff | information in some unspecified form.; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book" |
| ~ report card, report | a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment.; "his father signed his report card" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. information | knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction. |
| ~ cognition, knowledge, noesis | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning. |
| ~ data point, datum | an item of factual information derived from measurement or research. |
| ~ acquaintance, conversance, conversancy, familiarity | personal knowledge or information about someone or something. |
| ~ fact | a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.; "first you must collect all the facts of the case" |
| ~ example, instance, illustration, representative | an item of information that is typical of a class or group.; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" |
| ~ consideration, circumstance, condition | information that should be kept in mind when making a decision.; "another consideration is the time it would take" |
| ~ background knowledge, background | information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem.; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident" |
| ~ descriptor | a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system. |
| ~ evidence, grounds | your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling" |
| ~ predictor | information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events.; "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance" |
| ~ tip-off | inside information that something is going to happen. |
| ~ stimulant, stimulus, stimulation, input | any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action. |
| n. (communication) | 3. information | formal accusation of a crime. |
| ~ accusal, accusation | a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt. |
| n. (group) | 4. data, information | a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.; "statistical data" |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| ~ accounting data | all the data (ledgers and journals and spreadsheets) that support a financial statement; can be hard copy or machine readable. |
| ~ metadata | data about data.; "a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications" |
| ~ raw data | unanalyzed data; data not yet subjected to analysis. |
| n. (attribute) | 5. entropy, information, selective information | (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome.; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" |
| ~ communication theory, communications | the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.).; "communications is his major field of study" |
| ~ information measure | a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the events that convey information. |
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