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- noun Plural form of
designator .
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Examples
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His emphasis on reference instead of meaning at first seemed strange, but I think that is the proper course; and if it is, then much of semantics--such as Kripe's ideas about "designators"-- appears a bit useless.
Family Resemblance Philosophers Chris 2004
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There are several OPREP-3 code word designators with a chilling cold war/Tom Clancy/John Lecarre ring to them.
Boing Boing 2006
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Word Designators (word designators follow the event designators, separated by a colon): 0 The zeroth (ï¬rst) word in a line (usually command name). n The n-th word in a line.
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Word Designators (word designators follow the event designators, separated by a colon): 0 The zeroth (ï¬rst) word in a line (usually command name). n The n-th word in a line.
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It starts by reviewing the keyboard shortcuts for history retrieval in emacs and vi editing modes, then it covers the commands for listing and erasing the history, then it goes into discussing history expansion mechanism - event designators, word designators and their modifiers.
doggdot.us 2008
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Modiï¬ers (modiï¬ers follow word designators, separated by a colon): h Removes a trailing pathname component, leaving the head. t Removes all leading pathname components, leaving the tail. r Removes a trailing suffix of the form .xxx, leaving the basename. e Removes all but the trailing suffix. p Prints the resulting command but does not execute it. q Quotes the substituted words, escaping further substitutions. x Quotes the substituted words, breaking them into words at blanks and newlines. s / old / new / Substitutes new for old.
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Modiï¬ers (modiï¬ers follow word designators, separated by a colon): h Removes a trailing pathname component, leaving the head. t Removes all leading pathname components, leaving the tail. r Removes a trailing suffix of the form .xxx, leaving the basename. e Removes all but the trailing suffix. p Prints the resulting command but does not execute it. q Quotes the substituted words, escaping further substitutions. x Quotes the substituted words, breaking them into words at blanks and newlines. s / old / new / Substitutes new for old.
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Within twenty-four hours of their arrival the Americans started calling in airstrikes on the Taliban front lines, using their laser designators.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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There are only a handful of very special numerical designators for those who carry Naval Special Warfare qualifications.
ERIK J STURCHIO 2010
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Within twenty-four hours of their arrival the Americans started calling in airstrikes on the Taliban front lines, using their laser designators.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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