identifiern.

1807 F. Lathom Human Beings III. xvi. 296 Some other trinkets of little value, except that they were the identifiers of another child of which my nominal wife and myself were at that time in possession.

1836 Times 5 Feb. 6/3 Between 30 and 40 poachers were detected..by the keepers, who, by the aid of the blue lights, or identifiers, were able to recognize four of the ringleaders, who were apprehended the next day.

1869 Edinb. Evening Courier 20 Jan. 7/2 Corbett lit a fuse, or identifier, which caused a great blaze.

1870 D. Macrae Americans I. 80 He showed me also what he called the ‘Identifier’—a slip of parchment about the size of an address label, with blank lines, where the soldier could write his name, company, regiment, brigade, division, and corps, so that if killed in battle, his body could be identified.

1894 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. June 237/2 There was never a twin..that did not carry from birth to death a sure identifier.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 633/2 Gamekeepers' identifiers…will burn for a period of 3 to 4 minutes.

1973 A. Quinton Nature of Things iii. 61 The view that the identity of things through time is due to the presence in them of an identifying component or substance, an identifier, as I shall call it.

2005 Expanding Access to Res. Data (National Res. Council (U.S.) Div. Behavioral & Soc. Sci. & Educ.) iv. 59 Direct identifiers such as names and addresses have been removed from the data file.

1938 Jrnl. Philos. 35 458 The naming process stresses the naming operation. This signifies that the name is a pure symbol for something. A word identifier is connected with a planet.

1946 C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior iii. 76 Descriptors, identifiors which describe a location.

1965 Language 41 73 The noun phrase..may be regarded as a string consisting of identifier tagmeme, manifested here by a.; [etc.].

2003 Oceanic Linguistics 42 268 A proper noun, normally preceded by an identifier.

1958 Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery 1 11 Strings beginning with a letter λ followed by arbitrary letters λ and/or figures ζ are called identifiers. They have no inherent meaning, but serve for identifying purposes only.

1968 P. N. Corlett & J. D. Tinsley Pract. Programming ii. 14 Identifiers are also used to denote labels which mark particular points in a program.

1990 L. Wall & R. L. Schwartz Programming Perl iii. 70 Note that you can put curly braces around the identifier to delimit it from following alphanumerics.

2002 N. Dale & J. Lewis Computer Sci. Illuminated vi. 178 Data and actions are given names in the algorithm, then these names are translated into identifiers that meet the rules of the computer language.

1819 Times 25 Nov. 2/5 He then described the political characters of Hunt, Harrison, Johnson, and Carlile, as connected with the reformers and identifiers with their opinions.

1853 L. Hunt Relig. of Heart 84 The identifier of one's neighbour with one's-self; the freer of spirit from letter.

1923 Jrnl. Social Forces 1 230 The identifier feels as though something happening to another person were actually being experienced by himself.

1966 New Statesman 8 July 56/3 He [sc. Mark Twain] lacked the moral or imaginative resources of other identifiers, like Dickens or Balzac.

2001 C. Sedikides & L. Gaertner in J. Forgas et al. Social Mind vi. 123 High identifiers are more likely to protect the group identity..whereas low identifiers do not exhibit such group-identity enhancement strategies.

1819 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 245/1 The plausible case made out for Sir Philip Francis by his ‘Identifyer’, is here completely overturned.

1844 Times 2 Apr. 8/2 The keepers then went into the town of Thetford, and having procured a reinforcement of six ‘helps’ and two ‘identifiers’, they stationed themselves at the various entrances to the town to waylay their opponents.

1889 Evening Disp. (Columbus, Ohio) 11 May It was finally determined that the prisoner, attorneys and identifiers should step into a side room.

1959 ‘E. Fenwick’ Long Way Down ii. 15 Where the hell's your identifier?

1997 Current Anthropol. 38 765/2 The guidelines empower anthropologists as judges of the genuineness and authenticity of tradition and thereby position them as gatekeeping identifiers and objectifiers of heritage and delineators of identity.