identifier

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English

Etymology

identify +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

identifier (plural identifiers)

  1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
    • 2001, Theodore A. Landers, The Career Guide to the Horse Industry‎:
      The Identifier personally inspects each horse in each race by verifying the lip tattoo, body color, head and leg markings, scars, and chestnut (night eyes).
    • 2004, John McEvoy, Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track‎:
      The foal papers are documents recording the horse's registration; no horse can start in any race unless his papers are in the hands of the track's identifier.
    • 2007, Paolo Tombesi, Osamu Hirota, Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3, page 291:
      Here, we would use the anonymous key technique to obtain a quantum identification protocol AKI of the challenge-response type in which the identifier cannot pretend to be the identifiee […]
  2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
    • 2008, Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, Biometric System and Data Analysis:
      Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier.
  3. One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
    • 2019, Raina Simone Henderson, The Cost of Identity, page 80:
      While the DOJ and BOJS already calculate data by gender, trans identifiers are not included, it is solely by men and women
  4. A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
  5. (programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
  7. (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
  8. (databases) A primary key.

Antonyms

Coordinate terms

  • authenticator (an identifier asserts identity; an authenticator verifies it)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin identificāre.

Pronunciation

Verb

identifier

  1. to identify
  2. to log in

Conjugation

Conjugation of identifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple identifier
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple identifiant
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle identifié
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present identifie
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/ 		identifies
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/ 		identifie
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/ 		identifions
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/ 		identifiez
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/ 		identifient
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/
imperfect identifiais
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/ 		identifiais
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/ 		identifiait
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/ 		identifiions
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/ 		identifiiez
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.je/ 		identifiaient
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/
past historic2 identifiai
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/ 		identifias
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fja/ 		identifia
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fja/ 		identifiâmes
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjam/ 		identifiâtes
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjat/ 		identifièrent
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛʁ/
future identifierai
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/ 		identifieras
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/ 		identifiera
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/ 		identifierons
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/ 		identifierez
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/ 		identifieront
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional identifierais
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ 		identifierais
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ 		identifierait
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ 		identifierions
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ 		identifieriez
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁje/ 		identifieraient
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present identifie
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/ 		identifies
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/ 		identifie
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/ 		identifiions
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/ 		identifiiez
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.je/ 		identifient
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/
imperfect2 identifiasse
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjas/ 		identifiasses
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjas/ 		identifiât
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fja/ 		identifiassions
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/ 		identifiassiez
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fja.sje/ 		identifiassent
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — identifie
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/ 		— identifions
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/ 		identifiez
/i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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