Meaning of informally in English

(Definition of informally from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of informally

informally
Informally, rule r1 says that a site is up by default, and r2 expresses that if a site is down, then it cannot be queried.
We shall sometimes refer to defined constants somewhat informally as programs.
While this is controversal, many linguists tend to use it informally, nonetheless, and then juxtapose their intuited results with dates derived from archaeology.
Women rarely appear at all in the lists of fines for minor offences, which suggests that their misdemeanours were usually dealt with informally.
Several authors have argued for learning mechanisms within particular (typically strongbias) theories on the basis of low sample complexity, at least informally construed.
Informally, the main principle of these operators is based on the separation of the role of positive and negative information.
Although most scientists informally talked of gravity-related ideas, they could not measure gravity exactly.
Previously, money had been borrowed locally and informally, in ways which have not always left traces in historical sources.
The officers of the group, whose decisions were communicated informally or formally at the annual assembly, conducted all other meetings.
We define this predicate recursively, first informally, then formally.
In addition, during the practice session, all children were judged informally to be fluent readers for their age.
Informally, a class specification consists of constructor and method declarations, and assertions, which regulate the behaviour of objects.
Informally, non-interference says that computations that have a low read level do not depend on values in high security store locations.
This is illustrated informally in figure (21), which represents the meaning of spraywith.
Then groups of young people played instruments informally, chatted, exchanged, toured the school, played basketball and generally and genuinely interacted.
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Translations of informally

in Chinese (Traditional)
非正式地, 非官方地, 隨意地…
in Chinese (Simplified)
非正式地, 非官方地, 随意地…
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informalmente, coloquialmente, de manera informal…
in Portuguese
informalmente…
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अनौपचारिकपणे, अनौपचारिक…
de manière informelle/décontractée, officieusement, de façon informelle…
形式(けいしき)ばらずに…
teklifsiz şekilde…
informeel…
சம்பிரதாயமான அல்லது உத்தியோகபூர்வமற்ற வகையில், நீங்கள் நண்பர்கள் மற்றும் குடும்பத்தினருடன் இருக்கும்போது பொருத்தமான வகையில், ஆனால் உத்தியோகபூர்வ நிகழ்வுகளுக்கு அல்ல…
अनौपचारिक रूप से…
અનૌપચારિક રીતે…
uformelt…
informellt…
secara tidak formal…
zwanglos…
uformelt, dagligdags, folkelig…
غیر رسمی طور پر, غیر رسمی…
невимушено…
అధికారికంగా లేని విధంగా, మీరు స్నేహితులు, కుటుంబ సభ్యులతో ఉన్నప్పుడు సరిపోయే విధంగా…
ব্যক্তিগত স্তরে, ঘরোয়া ভাবে, ঘরোয়া…
neobřadně…
secara tidak resmi…
อย่างไม่เป็นทางการ, อย่างเป็นกันเอง…
một cách thân mật…
nieoficjalnie…
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