Used in a Sentence

determiner

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for determiner.

Editorial note

A determiner is the root of a determiner phrase.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of determiner gathered in one view.

noun

Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.

noun

A factor that defines something, or one among several that define it.

noun

Someone or something (especially a sentient agent) that determines; a decider of a disposition.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for determiner.

Example sentences

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A determiner is the root of a determiner phrase.

2

Agreed that the quality of the school is really the fundamental determiner of grades.

3

The problem is that ecological niche is a better determiner of size than ancestry...

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The point of learning math is there's an inflexible scorecard of reality for an incredibly complicated logic puzzle, and the only determiner of adequacy in the subject is persistence.

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I could absolutely conceive of a situation where a certain determiner phrase gets used so much in a community that an abbreviation becomes accepted as a new determiner.

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People are people first and foremost and their current economic/social class is not the only determiner of their lifestyle choices.

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And if talent isn't the primary determiner of success (remember that the job isn't that hard), how do you distinguish people?

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Content, not platform should be the determiner (though some hosted content might get penalized because of others using the same host).

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The main determiner of whether this is gutsy or foolish is what age he is.

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The real issue is that people think success is a determiner of human worth.

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Lexical selection, or 'what kind of thing needs a determiner?'...okay this is tedious.

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Read on: > Proper nouns like George Washington don't need a determiner.

Quote examples

1

I would argue that "the" is a determiner, and the class of determiners is mostly closed.

2

The first one is the "sweat of the brow" concept, where effort ( not originality, or at least not significant originality) is the determiner.

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It doesn't matter whether we "the" a determiner, or whether we call it a blunx.

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I don't think parallelism is a determiner -- I went with "cache-bound" as my guess.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use determiner in a sentence?

A determiner is the root of a determiner phrase.

What does determiner mean?

Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.

What part of speech is determiner?

determiner is commonly used as noun.