SPECIFIER

specifier

(noun) someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

specifier (plural specifiers)

A person or thing that specifies.

(linguistics) A component of a phrase that is non-recursive and not found as a sister of the head of the phrase, but rather as a daughter of the maximal projection of the phrase.

Coordinate terms

(component of a phrase):

• adjunct

• complement

• head

Source: Wiktionary



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BODILY

(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”


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