Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or word group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which modifies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, modifies.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
modifies . - noun grammar A
word ,phrase , orclause thatlimits orqualifies thesense of another word or phrase.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
- noun a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene
- noun a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising
- noun a person who changes something
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Examples
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As someone who was a Redskins fan during Clint Didier's heyday, the proper modifier is "former NFL journeyman," not "former NFL star."
Taking on Patty Murray: GOP Hopefuls Take Stage in Bellevue « PubliCola 2010
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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.
"Deceptively simple" Roger Sutton 2007
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* William Safire took on the "ist" suffix in one of his weekly articles, describing its use as a pejorative modifier Islamist, Christianist, etc…
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The "legend," strangely split from its crucial prepositional modifier, is associated with non-verbal nature, with silence and quietness.
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A preposition introduces a phrase modifier, and shows the relation, in sense, of its principal word to the word modified.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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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 Brainerd Kellogg
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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).
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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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).
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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A preposition introduces a phrase modifier, and shows the relation, in sense, of its principal word to the word modified.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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-- 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 Brainerd Kellogg
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