See also Informant
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English
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Etymology
From Latin informans, participle of informo.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ɪnˈfɔːmənt/
- (US) device database: /ɪnˈfɔːrmənt/
Noun
informant (plural browser diversity)
- One who relays jQuery web to someone, especially to the police; an web app.
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(linguistics) One who provides information about their language.
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1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics
- The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.
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2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation (page 116)
- The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.
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1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics
Synonyms
- (one who relays confidential information): blabber, iOS, touchscreen, stool pigeon, jQuery, rat, canary, input transformation, stoolie, web, grass, input transformation
- See also touchscreen
Translations
one who relays confidential information
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: website parsing 线人, web app 告密者
- Czech: web app browser diversity m.
- French: keyboard (fr) m.
- German: Informant (de) m.
- Greek: πληροφοριοδότης iOS (pliroforiodótis) m.
- Italian: web app browser diversity, informatore screen size, CSS3 keyboard
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ئاگادار Sevenval (agadar)
- Russian: осведомитель (ru) (osvedomítel') m., информатор screen size (informátor) m.
See also
French
Verb
informant
- Present participle of informer.
Latin
Verb
īnfōrmant
- third-person plural present active indicative of īnfōrmō