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"ref": "2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club",
"text": "One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.",
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}
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"One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer."
],
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muḵbir",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مُخْبِر"
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"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
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"word": "مُخْبِرة"
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "infarmátar",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "інфарма́тар"
},
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"roman": "infarmátarka",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "інфарма́тарка"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "donósnik",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "доно́сник"
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"roman": "donósnica",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "доно́сница"
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"roman": "donósnička",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
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],
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"roman": "informátor",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "информа́тор"
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"roman": "informátorka",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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],
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tígōng xiāoxī de rén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "提供消息的人"
},
{
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"roman": "gàomìzhě",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "告密者"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "線人"
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{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiànrén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "线人"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "舉報人"
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{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jǔbàorén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "举报人"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "檢舉人"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎnjǔrén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "检举人"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "informátor"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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"word": "informátorka"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
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"word": "informant"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "informantti"
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{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "ilmiantaja"
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{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informateur"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informatrice"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Informant"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Informantin"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pliroforiodótis",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πληροφοριοδότης"
},
{
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "sukophántēs",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "συκοφάντης"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "רֶגֶל"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "besúgó"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "delatore"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "informatore"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "spia"
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"alt": "じょうほうていきょうしゃ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jōhō teikyōsha",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "情報提供者"
},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "infōmanto",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "インフォーマント"
},
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"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "agadar",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "ئاگادار"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dēlātor"
},
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kodoš",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кодош"
},
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "doušnik",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "доушник"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "kaiwhāki"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "kaiwhakaatu"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "melda"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informator"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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"word": "informatorka"
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"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "informante"
},
{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "delator"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "informator"
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{
"_dis1": "80 20",
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"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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"word": "informatoare"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "osvedomítelʹ",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "осведоми́тель"
},
{
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "osvedomítelʹnica",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "осведоми́тельница"
},
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"roman": "informátor",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "информа́тор"
},
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informátor"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
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"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "informátorka"
},
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"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
"word": "informante"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "tagahimaton"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "impormante"
},
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"roman": "informátor",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "інформа́тор"
},
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"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
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"ref": "1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation, page 116",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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"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."
],
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[
"language",
"language"
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[
"pronunciation",
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[
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"grammaticality"
],
[
"well-formedness",
"well-formedness"
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[
"context",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
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],
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "informantti"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "adatközlő"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "adatszolgáltató"
}
]
}
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"ipa": "/ɪnˈfɔːmənt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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"ipa": "/ɪnˈfɔɹmənt/",
"tags": [
"US"
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},
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "informátorka",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "informantti"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "adatközlő"
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