identifier

CEFRB2

/aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪər/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A name or code used to recognize something.
02
noun
Extra detail
One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
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).

In context

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.
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).
Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier.

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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).
2001, Theodore A. Landers, The Career Guide to the Horse Industry
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.
2004, John McEvoy, Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track
Here, we would use the anonymous key technique to obtain a quantum identification protocol AKI of the challenge-response type in which the identifier cannot pretend to be the identifiee […]
2007, Paolo Tombesi, Osamu Hirota, Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3, page 291
Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier.
2008, Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, Biometric System and Data Analysis
The source stated that the alleged victims wanted the paperwork released after the settlement, but with names and identifiers removed.
2016 September 1, Ellie Kaufman, “University of Kentucky sues student newspaper over sexual assault case”, in CNN

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From identify + -er.