identifier
English
Etymology
Noun
identifier (plural identifiers)
- Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
- 2001, Theodore A. Landers, The Career Guide to the Horse Industry[1]:
- 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[2]:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- (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.
- (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
- (databases) A primary key.
Translations
formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
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primary key
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See also
See also
identifier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
identifier
Conjugation
Conjugation of identifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | identifier | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/ |
— | identifions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/ |
identifiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/ |
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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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “identifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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