ident

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Etymology 1

From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe +‎ -and and/or ithe +‎ -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.

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Adjective

ident (comparative more ident, superlative most ident)

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent.
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Etymology 2

A shortened form of identification.

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Noun

ident (plural idents)

  1. An identification.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 37:
      Well, that's the priority. Get the ident.
  2. (radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
    • 2002, Jane Austin, Graphic Originals:
      In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.
  3. (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
    • 2004, Eoghan Casey, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime:
      […] the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root.
  4. An identifier. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Etymology 3

A shortened form of identify.

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Verb

ident (third-person singular simple present idents, present participle identing, simple past and past participle idented)

  1. (aviation, intransitive) To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.

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