Determiner

Definitions

1. Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.
2. A factor that defines something, or one among several that define it.
3. Someone or something (especially a sentient agent) that determines; a decider of a disposition.
4. A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
5. A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.

Equivalents

19 more languages

العربيةالمصمممحددة

Catalàdeterminant

Ελληνικάπροσδιοριστής

Esperantodeterminanto

Suomitarkenne

Gaeilgecinntitheach

Magyardetermináns

Bahasa Indonesiapenentu

Italianoaggettivo determinativodeterminante

日本語限定詞

한국어관형사한정사

Македонскидетерминанта

Bahasa Melayupenunjuk

Nederlandsdeterminator

Polskiokreślenieokreślnik

Portuguêsdeterminante

Русскийдетерминативопределяющее слово

Svenskadeterminant

Tiếng Việtđịnh thức

Examples

“Near-synonym: definer”

“In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ⟳ across use⟳ cases.”

“The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship […]”

“Near-synonyms: decider, decisor, disposer, definer, arbiter, arbitrator, decisionmaker”

“He is the determiner [usually referring to God (in theological contexts) and job roles (in administrative contexts)]”

“Who is the determiner? [administratively or theologically]”

“The software is the determiner if no input is given before the prompt times out.”

“Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)”

“Definite articles, indefinite articles, and cardinal numbers acting as quantifiers are types of determiners.”

“In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.”

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