Reported vs Informed - What's the difference?
reported | informed |
(report)
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01, author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore
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, title= (label) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
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*:thenne they ansuerd by and by that they coude not excuse the quene // Allas sayd the quene I made this dyner for a good entente / and neuer for none euyl soo almyghty god me help in my ryght as I was neuer purposed to doo suche euylle dedes / and that I reporte me vnto god
(label) Formally to notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
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(label) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
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(label) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
(label) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
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(label) To be accountable.
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To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
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To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
(label) To refer.
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:Baldwin, his son,succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description.
To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:a church with windows only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times
A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject.
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(ballistics ) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
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* 1883:
an employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager
(inform)
Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 696:
(obsolete) Created, given form.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
As verbs the difference between reported and informed
is that reported is past tense of report while informed is past tense of inform.As an adjective informed is
instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.reported
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*report
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(wikipedia report)Verb
(en verb)Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight, passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported
Derived terms
* reporter * underreportNoun
(en noun)- A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.
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- While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
- ...a pistol-shot, flash and report , came from the hedge-side.
Derived terms
* (piece of information) on report, report card * (employee) direct report, indirect reportinformed
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Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Another informed and sobering estimate is that by 1800 indigenous populations in the western hemisphere were a tenth of what they had been three centuries before.
- after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.