Word Meanings - INFORMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal

Additional info about word: INFORMATION

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment. (more info) 1. The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. The active informations of the intellect. South. 2. News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction. Larger opportunities of information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFORMATION)

• Attainment
• Information
• acquirements
• accomplishments
• Instruction
• Teaching
• education
• information
• counsel
• advice
• direction
• order
• command
• Intelligence
• Understanding
• apprehension
• comprehension
• conception
• announcement
• report
• rumor
• tidings
• news
• publication
• mind
• knowledge
• notice
• instruction
• intellect
• Lesson
• Precept
• warning
• lecture
• homily
• Science
• Knowledge
• skill
• experience
• expertness
• understanding
• investigation
• truth

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INFORMATION)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose
• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify

Related words: (words related to INFORMATION)

• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• HOMILY
  1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak. 2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.