INFORMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does informing mean? 

• INFORMING (noun)
  The noun INFORMING has 2 senses:

1. to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)

2. a speech act that conveys information

  Familiarity information: INFORMING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFORMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

informing; ratting

Hypernyms ("informing" is a kind of...):

disclosure; revealing; revelation (the speech act of making something evident)

Derivation:

inform (act as an informer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A speech act that conveys information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

informing; making known

Hypernyms ("informing" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "informing"):

apprisal; notification; telling (informing by words)

divine revelation; revelation (communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency)

intro; introduction; presentation (formally making a person known to another or to the public)

briefing (detailed instructions, as for a military operation)

account; report (the act of informing by verbal report)

warning (a message informing of danger)

Derivation:

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

 Context examples 

It also includes informing the patient when there is new information that may affect his or her decision to continue.

(Informed consent, NCI Dictionary)

His own work that he sent in was returned, along with a stereotyped slip informing him that the staff supplied all the copy that was needed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As to the maid, Marie, she had gone off some days beforehand in floods of tears, after informing the other maids that she was leaving service forever.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Number two in the Court was soon reached; and an inscription on the door-post informing me that Mr. Traddles occupied a set of chambers on the top storey, I ascended the staircase.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lydia left a few lines for his wife, informing her of their intention.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Early in February, within a fortnight from the receipt of Willoughby's letter, Elinor had the painful office of informing her sister that he was married.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I began my discourse by informing his majesty, that our dominions consisted of two islands, which composed three mighty kingdoms, under one sovereign, beside our plantations in America.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Her friends, shocked at the event, had contented themselves with informing her brother at Athens, and had then washed their hands of the matter.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He said J Bruce Ismay, President of the firm behind construction of RMS Titanic, ordered the twelve men tasked to attempting to control the fire to avoid informing passengers.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

Just as the dagger is at his heart, a lovely song is sung under his window, informing him that Zara is true but in danger, and he can save her if he will.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)