Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who, or that which, modifies.

    Modifikator, Modifikatorin

    модифика́торmodifikátor

    a person who changes something

  2. A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase. (It may be any of the following: an adjective phrase, an adverb phrase, a prepositional phrase, a noun phrase, or a subordinate clause.)

    Attribut, Bestimmungswort, Bestimmung

    определе́ниеopredelénije

    озна́ченняoznáčennja

    a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb

  3. A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.

    The protected modifier makes a class member visible to subclasses, but not to external code.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. A "modifier" has, just as it sounds, the role of embellishing sentences.

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  2. There are grammar books that call these sorts of things, not modifiers, but adjuncts (A).

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
grammar: qualifying word, clause or phrase:
Русский
By meaning 2
one who modifies:
grammar: qualifying word, clause or phrase:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
one who modifies:
grammar: qualifying word, clause or phrase:

Forms

plural: modifiers
Singularmodifier
Pluralmodifiers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene:modifier gene
  • a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb:qualifier
  • a person who changes something:changer

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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