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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
... to the vegetable kingdom had not once saluted our nostrils during those eight months. Pure white became one of the chief and most impressive facts of our existence in regard to colour, if we may so call it—white, varying in tone, of course, to pearly grey. Cold, of varied intensity, was the chief modifier of our sensations. Happily light was also a potent factor in our experiences—bright, glowing sunshine and blue skies contrasted well with the white and grey, and helped to counteract the cold; while pure air invigorated our frames ...
— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne
... ... nor ...", the conjunction "nek" is used for both words. Since an adjective modifier of two or more words connected by "nek" must necessarily modify them separately, the adjective remains in the ...
— A Complete Grammar of Esperanto • Ivy Kellerman


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