Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or word group.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which modifies.
Wiktionary
- n. One who, or that which, modifies.
- n. grammar A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, modifies.
- n. (Gram.) A word or phrase that modifies another word, phrase, or sentence, usually by limiting the scope or restricting the meaning of the sentence element modified.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
- n. a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene
- n. a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising
- n. a person who changes something
Examples
“As someone who was a Redskins fan during Clint Didier's heyday, the proper modifier is "former NFL journeyman," not "former NFL star.”
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“Unhappily, this tired modifier is supposed to signal that the book in question is somehow risky and dangerous in subject matter or treatment, but it just makes me roll my eyes and look for a barf bag.”
“The "legend," strangely split from its crucial prepositional modifier, is associated with non-verbal nature, with silence and quietness.”
“* William Safire took on the "ist" suffix in one of his weekly articles, describing its use as a pejorative modifier Islamist, Christianist, etc…”
“Give the caution relating to the position of the phrase modifier; that relating to the choice of prepositions; that relating to the double negative (Lesson 41).”
“A preposition introduces a phrase modifier, and shows the relation, in sense, of its principal word to the word modified.”
“-- To express our thoughts with greater exactness we may need to expand a word modifier into several words; as, A _long_ ride brought us _there_ = A ride _of one hundred miles_ brought us _to Chicago_.”
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
“The line standing for the word modifier is joined to that part of the subject line which represents the entire subject.”
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
“The description, or title, field of the bookmark is taken from either the entitled modifier or the title of the current page.”
“The modifier is modifying the subject of the sentence, so it’s got to be an adjective.”
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