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Definitions: Informing |
InformingNoun1. To furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors). 2. A speech act that conveys information. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "informing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: InformingSynonyms: making known (n), ratting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Informing |
| English words defined with "informing": account, apprisal ♦ Intelligencing ♦ letters testamentary ♦ notification ♦ report ♦ telling ♦ warning. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "informing": active public information policy ♦ commitment letter ♦ dysménorrhée ♦ European Works Council ♦ Lucrezia di Borgia ♦ Mental Hallucinations ♦ Opposition ♦ Pro Forma Invoice, Public Notice ♦ règles douloureuses ♦ special negotiating body. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "informing": Intelligencing. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sent to Yeoman 1st Class (F) Omah Margaret Munier on 14 February 1919, informing her of the results of the Yeoman (Female) advancement examinations held on 28 January 1919 and of her advancement in rate as of 1 February 1919. She was serving at the Receiving Ship, Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, from 4 May 1918 to 10 August 1919.Credit: NAVY. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monsieur Madeleine had passed the night and morning in informing himself about Fantine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Begin by informing yourself about your child's diagnosis and treatment. (references) | |
Instead, they usually recommend informing XXY adolescents and their parents about the benefits of testosterone injections and letting them take as much time as they need to make their decision. (references) | ||
One innovative suggestion that deserves consideration is the mandatory labeling of all absorbent products, informing the public that persistent urinary incontinence should be evaluated and that effective treatments are available. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Poland | Most denied applicants simply receive a letter informing them that their petition has been denied and that they should leave the country. (references) |
Cape Verde | There is a substantial and growing independent press; however, there continued to be criticism by many prominent government and opposition figures of state-controlled television for its failure to exercise properly its role of informing the public regarding political and economic issues. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | The CAC plays a role in conducting research and informing the public of price variations. (references) |
Human Rights | Burundi | On July 31, rebels attacked the Rumonge commune in the southwest part of the country and killed nine civilians; the rebels accused the residents of informing the security forces of their movements. (references) |
Pakistan | There continued to be charges that magistrates and police, under pressure from provincial and federal officials to achieve high conviction rates, persuade detainees to plead guilty without informing them of the consequences. (references) | |
Guatemala | Because of violent confrontations in the past, the Government continued its policy of securing an eviction order from a court, informing the occupiers of the coming eviction, and sending in a lightly armed police contingent to end the occupation by using dialog and verbal persuasion. (references) | |
Political Economy | JORDAN | Jordan has reviewed all its mandatory standards' requirements and others and made them compatible with WTO requirements since early 2001. Jordanian importers are responsible for informing foreign suppliers of any applicable labeling and marking requirements. (references) |
Trade | Jordan | Importers are responsible for informing foreign suppliers of any applicable labeling and marking requirements. (references) |
Switzerland | Swiss importers are normally cooperative in informing the exporter of Swiss requirements, and in assisting in meeting those requirements from the Swiss side. (references) | |
Women | Ireland | The campaign aimed to facilitate victims' reporting of domestic and other types of violence by informing women of available resources and rallying public support for victims. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | The State Inspectorate of Labor is responsible for protecting and educating workers as well as informing business owners of their respective rights and responsibilities. (references) |
Canada | Traffickers use intimidation and violence, as well as the illegal immigrants' inability to speak English, to keep these victims from running away or informing the police. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to study the science of government, appointed one hundred of his fattest subjects as members of a parliament to make laws for the collection of revenue. Forty of these he named the Party of Opposition and had his Prime Minister carefully instruct them in their duty of opposing every royal measure. Nevertheless, the first one that was submitted passed unanimously. Greatly displeased, the King vetoed it, informing the Opposition that if they did that again they would pay for their obstinacy with their heads. The entire forty promptly disemboweled themselves. "What shall we do now?" the King asked. "Liberal institutions cannot be maintained without a party of Opposition." "Splendor of the universe," replied the Prime Minister, "it is true these dogs of darkness have no longer their credentials, but all is not lost. Leave the matter to this worm of the dust." So the Minister had the bodies of his Majesty's Opposition embalmed and stuffed with straw, put back into the seats of power and nailed there. Forty votes were recorded against every bill and the nation prospered. But one day a bill imposing a tax on warts was defeated -- the members of the Government party had not been nailed to their seats! This so enraged the King that the Prime Minister was put to death, the parliament was dissolved with a battery of artillery, and government of the people, by the people, for the people perished from Ghargaroo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Informing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.21% of the time. "Informing" is used about 363 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 94.21% | 342 | 15,474 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.58% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.38% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.83% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 363 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "informing": all-informing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
informing | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "informing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | informim (notification), kallëzim (delation, information, narration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | доносничество, доносничене. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 通知 (inform, Notice, Notification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Croatian | informiranje, informiranja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | udavaèský (denunciatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | information og hoering af arbejdstagerne (informing and consulting the employees), procedure til information og høring af arbejdstagerne (procedure for informing and consulting employees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voorlichting en raadpleging van werknemers (informing and consulting the employees), procedure ter informatie en raadpleging van de werknemers (procedure for informing and consulting employees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | délation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | denunziation (denunciation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ενημέρωση και διαβούλευση εργαζομένων (informing and consulting the employees), διαδικασία ενημέρωσης των εργαζομένων και διαβούλευσης με αυτούς (procedure for informing and consulting employees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "לש " (delation, libel, reporting, slander), "ילטורי" (backbiting, slander). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ismeretterjesztõ (informative), informatív (informative), tájékoztató (handout, informant, informative, prospectus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | informazione e consultazione dei lavoratori (informing and consulting the employees), procedura per l'informazione e la consultazione dei lavoratori (procedure for informing and consulting employees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 他聞 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たぶ" (perhaps, probably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 알 줌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cur fys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | informingay procedimento de informação e consulta dos trabalhadores (procedure for informing and consulting employees). (various references) informare (information, report). (various references) осведомление, информирование. (various references) informisanje (briefing), obaveštavanje. (various references) procedimiento de información y consulta a los trabajadores (procedure for informing and consulting employees). (various references) ihbar (conveyance, denouncement, denunciation, notice, squeal, warning), bilgi verme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "informing": misinforming, overinforming, reinforming. (additional references) | |
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"Informing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indoramin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "informing" (pronounced i'nfô"rming) |
| 8 | i' n f ô" r m i ng | misinforming. |
| 7 | -n f ô" r m i ng | conforming. |
| 6 | -f ô" r m i ng | forming, nonperforming, performing, reforming, transforming. |
| 5 | -ô" r m i ng | storming, swarming, warming. |
| 4 | -r m i ng | alarming, arming, barnstorming, brainstorming, charming, disarming, farming, harming, heartwarming, outperforming, rearming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, assuming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brimming, calming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, mushrooming, naming, numbing, oncoming, overcoming, overwhelming, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, reclaiming, redeeming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-m-n-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: minoring. | |
-2 letters: firming, foining, forming, ironing, morning. | |
-3 letters: fining, firing, infirm, inform, mignon, mining, minion, miring, origin, riming. | |
-4 letters: giron, gonif, groin, imino, inion, iring, minor. | |
-5 letters: fino, firm, firn, foin, form, frig, frog, from, girn, giro, grim, grin, info, inro, iron, mini, miri, morn, noir, nori, norm, ring. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-i-m-n-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: confirming, uniforming. | |
+2 letters: reinforming. | |
+3 letters: misinforming, reconfirming. | |
+4 letters: disconfirming, overinforming. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 66 6F 72 6D 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n f o r m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0066 006F 0072 006D 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438072818479758073 |
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