disinformation | (noun) misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
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info | (noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: information |
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infolding | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: introversion, intussusception, invagination |
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infomercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: informercial |
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informality | (noun) a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously | - |
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(noun) freedom from constraint or embarrassment | Synonyms: ease |
informant | (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: source |
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(noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: witness, witnesser |
informatics | (noun) the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information | Synonyms: information processing, information science, IP |
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information | (noun) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome | Synonyms: entropy, selective information |
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(noun) knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction | - |
(noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: info |
(noun) formal accusation of a crime | - |
(noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: data |
informer | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, rat, squealer |
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informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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informing | (noun) a speech act that conveys information | Synonyms: making known |
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(noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: ratting |
infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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kinfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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pinfold | (noun) a pen where stray animals are confined | - |
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rainforest | (noun) a forest with heavy annual rainfall | Synonyms: rain forest |
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reinforcement | (noun) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior | Synonyms: reward |
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(noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, support |
(noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: strengthener |
(noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus |
(noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reenforcement |
reinforcer | (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcement, reinforcing stimulus |
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sainfoin | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain | Synonyms: esparcet, holy clover, Onobrychis viciaefolia, Onobrychis viciifolia, sanfoin |
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tinfoil | (noun) foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead | Synonyms: tin foil |
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