Informal

Full of information

The book was very informal

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Information

structured data. It provides context for data and enables decision making process. For example, a single customer’s sale at a restaurant is data – this becomes information when the business is able to identify the most popular or least popular dish.1

More technically, information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it answers the question of "What an entity is" and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.2 Thus the concept becomes synonymous to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, education, knowledge, meaning, understanding, mental stimuli, pattern, perception, proposition, representation, and entropy.

Hey don’t steal my information
Hey you don’t have any information

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informated

the state of being drunkenly informed

While in the VIP lastnight I got informated on proper booty scoot technique.

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inform on

To deliberately impart information to another person or an authority with intent to cause trouble for the person(s) the information is about.

To tattle

To snitch

Sarah plans to inform on Jody's husband. He is cheating on Jody and she needs to know.

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Situated informant

A person law enforcement cooperates with to put in a situation to build a case against another.

"There's the main rat Mildred being a situated informant once again; looking around left and right before getting into her car and leaving to make sure nobody sees her talk to the police."

Also known to run with a ragtag police department whose incompetence

is so horrible they've issued warrants for individuals in supermax prisons and probation violation warrants for dead people based on sketchy eyewitnesses.

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Information Regulator

An organisation that doesn’t understand the POPI Act; their website’s always down; always asks for prior authorisation but never responds to e-mails.

Knock knock
Who’s there?
The Information Regulator
The Information Regulator who?
Error 404

information witch

An alternate name for a librarian or information professional. Usually used in a derogatory or teasing manner.

Our group was in the middle of working on project when this information witch came over to our table and told us to be quiet.

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