Informant vs Confident - What's the difference?
informant | confident |
One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
(linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
* 1977 , A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics
* 2003 , Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation (page 116)
very sure of something; positive
self-confident
As nouns the difference between informant and confident
is that informant is informant while confident is .As an adjective confident is
very sure of something; positive.informant
English
(wikipedia informant)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (one who relays confidential information ): blabber, gossip, narc, stool pigeon, tattletale, rat, canary, snitch, stoolie, squealer, grass, bigmouth * See alsoSee also
* name names ----confident
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.