Meaning of Determiner | Babel Free

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

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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