Description vs. Information

Descriptionnoun

A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

Descriptionnoun

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

Descriptionnoun

A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.

Descriptionnoun

(taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.

Descriptionnoun

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

Descriptionnoun

A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

Descriptionnoun

A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

Descriptionnoun

a statement that represents something in words

Descriptionnoun

the act of describing something

Descriptionnoun

sort or variety;

Descriptionnoun

a spoken or written account of a person, object, or event

Descriptionnoun

the action of giving a spoken or written account

Descriptionnoun

a type or class of people or things

Description

Description is the pattern of narrative development that aims to make vivid a place, object, character, or group. Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration.

Informationnoun

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

Informationnoun

The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

Informationnoun

(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.

Informationnoun

(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

Informationnoun

The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

Informationnoun

The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.

Informationnoun

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

Informationnoun

(Christianity) Divine inspiration.

Informationnoun

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

Informationnoun

(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

Informationnoun

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

Informationnoun

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

Informationnoun

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

Informationnoun

Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.

Informationnoun

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.

Informationnoun

A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log210, or 3.323 bits; called also information content. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision.

Informationnoun

Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information.

Informationnoun

a message received and understood

Informationnoun

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn;

Informationnoun

knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

Informationnoun

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome;

Informationnoun

formal accusation of a crime

Information

Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it answers the question of and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.