What's the difference between information and noncommittal?

Information


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.
  • (v. t.) News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.
  • (v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (4) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (5) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (6) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (7) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (8) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (9) They suggest that an endogenous retinoid could contribute to positional information in the early Xenopus embryo.
  • (10) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
  • (11) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (12) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
  • (13) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
  • (14) Current information suggests that arachidonic acid metabolites are involved in the development of cholecystitis.
  • (15) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
  • (16) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (17) Much information has accumulated on the isolation and characterization of a heterogeneous group of molecules that inhibit one or more of the bioactivities of interleukin 1.
  • (18) This can be achieved by sincere, periodic information through the mass media.
  • (19) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
  • (20) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.

Noncommittal


Definition:

  • (n.) A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's more noncommittal, as a Muslim, about Obama's promises to open dialogue between Islamic leaders and America.
  • (2) I’m usually Labour” is an ominously noncommittal doorstep refrain: Jeremy Corbyn’s name often follows.
  • (3) Mention of the Lib Dems was met with noncommittal shrugs, as if you might just about bring yourself to back them, knowing it was little more than a futile protest vote.
  • (4) The author discusses the signs and symptoms appearing in the course of so called noncommittant squints.
  • (5) The chief executive, Ron Gourlay, has been publicly appreciative but noncommittal on Di Matteo's prospects, with the manager claiming still to be relaxed and focused on his immediate task as his contract ticks down towards expiry.
  • (6) Results of these analyses show that guidelines are too often formulated in a noncommittal way and that there is a need for a more functional registration system to link information about the clinical working diagnoses, the bacteria isolated and the sensitivity to the antibiotics used.
  • (7) Bassa was noncommittal about the offer, adding that it was still considering a "formal response", but said the proposals would be considered by shop stewards and ultimately by members.
  • (8) Andy Thornton, chief executive of the Citizenship Foundation, said: "So far responses from the Department for Education to our enquiries have been noncommittal and focus mainly on the coalition's proposals for a 'national citizens service'."
  • (9) Noncommittant squints are divided into squints caused by paresis or by a total paralysis of the motor muscles.
  • (10) This picture has all the traits of a well-rounded photograph: there are the jack rabbits on the fence, which make it look as if there is movement; the car that’s really dead, including the tumbleweed to one side and the beat-up old licence plate; the sky is totally noncommittal; the horizon is mute.
  • (11) She is, at first, similarly noncommittal about what she thinks of conversations around the burqa in the UK.
  • (12) Nomura analyst Rick Sherland had downgraded the company to a neutral – or noncommittal – stock recommendation on its disappointing stock performance.
  • (13) Two years into a five-year deal and recently appointed captain of Lazio, Biglia was noncommittal upon being asked if his promotion meant he would be staying at the club.
  • (14) But as a declaration of a military objective, it is slippery and noncommittal.
  • (15) Their Labour councillors refused to discuss the matter until after June 2004's council elections; when the council broke its silence, it was either noncommittal or brazenly enthusiastic about the Vardy proposal.
  • (16) The behaviour of these neoplasms has prompted the suggestion that these tumours be designated carcinomas rather that noncommittally tumours or neoplasms (Batsakis and Regezzi, 1977).
  • (17) Lamar McKay, the president of BP's US subsidiary, was also noncommittal about the plan during testimony before Congress earlier yesterday.
  • (18) Shortly after my first child was born, I attended a job interview where I responded to a casual question about my domestic circumstances with a revealingly noncommittal answer: "I live with my girlfriend – at the moment."
  • (19) And [the protagonists] were portrayed as Jews, so that was portrayed as a good thing?” I grunted noncommittally, which he took as a signal to move on to his critique of Django Unchained.
  • (20) For it, the author prefers the descriptive and diagnostically noncommittal acronym "BSAP".