Messages vs Information - What's the difference?
messages | information |
English plurals
(plurale tantum, Ireland, Scotland, and, Northern England) groceries
* 1983 , Raymond McClean, The road to Bloody Sunday , page 119:
* 1987 , Pulpsmith , volume 6, page 275:
(message)
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Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
(legal) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
(Christianity) Divine inspiration.
(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the .
A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data.
(computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
As nouns the difference between messages and information
is that messages is while information is information.As a verb messages
is (message).messages
English
Noun
(head)- I was going up the town to buy some messages .
- A South African woman, just married to an Irishman and newly arrived in this country, was shocked when her husband told her, "I just saw yer man in the shop when I was getting the messages (groceries)." "My what?" "Yer man. "
Verb
(head)information
English
Noun
(en-noun)- I need some more information about this issue.
- For your information , I did this because I wanted to.
- And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information .