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descriptor
[ dih-skrip-ter ]
noun
- a significant word or phrase used to categorize or describe text or other material, especially when indexing or in an information retrieval system.
- Computers. a data item that stores the attributes of some other datum:
a task descriptor.
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Origin of descriptor1
Example Sentences
“It seems like we’ve kind of been living through that, one of those periods where it’s a little more prevalent, in your face. That word gets thrown around, and I think it’s an appropriate descriptor.â€
Instead, it presents him as a steadfast superhero for justice, no less in the full title itself, which adds the descriptors usually saved for a summer-blockbuster tagline: “Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.â€
Actor Rashida Jones, the daughter of composer Quincy Jones, commemorated her late father on Thursday with a bounty of descriptors, calling him a giant, icon, culture shifter and genius.
Not because those words aren’t fitting descriptors for Ani, but because she’s far more complex than a couple of attributes you can pull from the etymology section of a mommy blog.
It is no accident that the term ethnic cleansing has endured as a descriptor of those atrocities.
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