information vs lowdown

information

noun
  • The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. 

  • As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. 

  • Divine inspiration. 

  • Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. 

  • 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. 

  • Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). 

  • That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is". 

  • Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. 

  • […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation. 

  • A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. 

lowdown

noun
  • inside information, the story or truth. 

  • A lowlife, a despicable person. 

adj
  • Unfair; shameful. 

  • down low; purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men. 

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