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Modifier

noun
1.
A content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb.  Synonym: qualifier.
2.
A moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising.
3.
A person who changes something.  Synonym: changer.
4.
A gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene.  Synonym: modifier gene.



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"Modifier" Quotes from Famous Books



... positive service to us in the conduct of life, while a vice of temperament concerns us not at all in private men, and only so far in statesmen and rulers as it may have been influential in history as a modifier of action, or is essential to an understanding of it ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various


Words linked to "Modifier" :   person, intensifier, open-class word, somebody, dangling modifier, soul, factor, content word, cistron, standardiser, intensive, adulterator, misplaced modifier, moderator, mortal, qualifier, phrase, adjective, normaliser, modify, individual, adverb, normalizer, modifier gene, standardizer, gene, someone


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