INPUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does input mean? 

• INPUT (noun)
  The noun INPUT has 4 senses:

1. signal going into an electronic system

2. a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information

3. any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

4. a component of production; something that goes into the production of output

  Familiarity information: INPUT used as a noun is uncommon.

• INPUT (verb)
  The verb INPUT has 1 sense:

1. enter (data or a program) into a computer

  Familiarity information: INPUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INPUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Signal going into an electronic system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

input; input signal

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

sign; signal; signaling (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

comment; input; remark

Context example:

we would appreciate input from our users on how we can improve our software

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

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

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

zinger (a striking or amusing or caustic remark)

banality; bromide; cliche; commonplace; platitude (a trite or obvious remark)

conversation stopper; stopper (a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply)

barb; dig; gibe; jibe; shaft; shot; slam (an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect)

crack; quip; sally; wisecrack (witty remark)

rib (a teasing remark)

observation; reflection; reflexion (a remark expressing careful consideration)

mention; reference (a remark that calls attention to something or someone)

obiter dictum; passing comment (an incidental remark)

gambit; ploy (an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker)

courtesy (a courteous or respectful or considerate remark)

ad-lib (remark made spontaneously without prior preparation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

input; stimulant; stimulation; stimulus

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

information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)

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

kick (the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs))

turn-on (something causing excitement or stimulating interest)

negative stimulation; turnoff (something causing antagonism or loss of interest)

conditioned stimulus (the stimulus that is the occasion for a conditioned response)

reinforcement; reinforcer; reinforcing stimulus ((psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it)

cue; discriminative stimulus (a stimulus that provides information about what to do)

positive stimulus (a stimulus with desirable consequences)

negative stimulus (a stimulus with undesirable consequences)

elicitation; evocation; induction (stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A component of production; something that goes into the production of output

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

component; constituent; element (an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system)

• INPUT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they input    ... he / she / it inputs   
Past simple: input    / inputted   
Past participle: input    / inputted   
-ing form: inputting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter (data or a program) into a computer

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "input" is one way to...):

enter; infix; insert; introduce (put or introduce into something)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

For decades, scientists have recognized that more nitrogen accumulates in soils and plants than can be explained by input from the atmosphere alone, but researchers couldn't pinpoint what was missing.

(New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth’s bedrock, National Science Foundation)

"This battery is a major step toward capturing that energy without membranes, moving parts or energy input."

(Researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater, National Science Foundation)

A control device that uses a movable handle to create two-axis input for a computer device.

(Joystick Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A device consisting of mechanical keys that are pressed to create input to a computer.

(Keyboard Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A device consisting of keys, usually in a block arrangement, that provides limited input to a system.

(Keypad Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue with the device being more sensitive to an input than intended or expected.

(Increased Device Sensitivity, Food and Drug Administration)

A program that searches Hidden Markov Models from the PFAM database for significantly similar sequence matches to the input protein sequence.

(HmmPfam Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)

A label that represents the result value of an observation and serves as an input parameter used in a dose expression.

(Defined Expression Variable Relationship Local Variable Name, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Issue with the device being less sensitive to an input than intended or expected.

(Decreased Device Sensitivity, Food and Drug Administration)

A character string containing a formal language expression that specifies how attributes are, should be, or have been derived from input parameters associated with activity.

(Derivation Expression, NCI Thesaurus)