Intel vs Informant - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between intel and informant

is that intel is intelligence (secret information while informant is one who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

As a proper noun Intel

is intel Corporation, a US-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits.

intel

English

Noun

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intelligence (secret information)

Intel is important in espionage.

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informant

English

(wikipedia informant)

Noun

(en noun)

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

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.

* 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.

Synonyms

* (one who relays confidential information ): blabber, gossip, narc, stool pigeon, tattletale, rat, canary, snitch, stoolie, squealer, grass, bigmouth * See also