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Meanings of determiner in English

Russian
детерминатив
Portuguese
determinante
Spanish
determinante lingüístico
Catalan
determinant

Part of speech reflecting the reference of a noun.

      Related terms
      детерминатив
      Portuguese
      condicionante
      Catalan
      factor determinant
      Spanish
      factor decisivo

      A determining or causal element or factor.

            condicionante
            Synonyms
            Examples for "det"
            Examples for "det"
            1
            It will release its new det ailed pro jections on July 18.
            Reuters
            2
            I fink He hears better dat way, an' I det better.
            The Fourth Watch
            3
            How would you like to have me whoop you det way?
            Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
            4
            This is justice. Trash reached into his pack and pulled out his det packs.
            Stars rain down
            5
            Because we had no way of getting det cord, Coney volunteered to set us up.
            Guns will keep us together
            1
            The specificity of determination and the localization of determinative factors is discussed.
            Pubmed
            2
            Yet the outcome is surely vastly determinative of such a struggle.
            A journey: my political life
            3
            He had never encountered a place where race was so determinative.
            The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
            4
            But I don't see it as determinative, decisive activity at this point, Mullen said.
            Reuters
            5
            The years since that determinative hour in the Richmond book-shop had been well harvested.
            Lewis Rand
            1
            The word 'attributive' in logic embraces both the adjective and participle of grammar.
            Deductive Logic
            2
            The attributive is defined, so far as it can be, through the corresponding abstract term.
            Deductive Logic
            3
            An attributive is not directly the name of anything.
            Deductive Logic
            4
            When an attributive appears to be used as a subject, it is owing to a grammatical ellipse.
            Deductive Logic
            5
            River broad again - tending W.S.W., with a broad flattened island with attributive sandbanks in the middle.
            Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
            Usage of determiner in English
            1
            Liner material is a significant determiner of a double boot's warmth.
            Climbing Magazine
            2
            Then there must be a determiner, the expression of which was mathematical ability.
            Applied Eugenics
            3
            Then it must be due to a determiner for a notch in the ear in the germ-plasm.
            Applied Eugenics
            4
            No other determiner is worthy of consideration.
            Mech
            5
            Every trait of an animal or plant, it was supposed, must be represented in the germ-plasm by its own determiner; one trait, one determiner.
            Applied Eugenics
            6
            Determiners are little words that give you more specificity about the noun.
            Wired
            7
            We may not be used to thinking of ads as great determiners of our options in life.
            Wired
            8
            In these developmental studies, Goldschmidt recognized normal sexuality as a quantitative phenomenon produced by a balance of male and female sex determiners.
            The Structure of Evolutionary Theory