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noun

Modifier n.

One who, or that which, modifies.

(Gram.) A word or phrase that modifies another word, phrase, or sentence, usually by limiting the scope or restricting the meaning of the sentence element modified.

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Etymology of 'Modifier'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Modifier" Quotes from Famous Books

... contre treize, en tenant compte meme de six fautes commises dans le texte copie au siecle dernier. De ce resultat numerique, il faut evidemment conclure, d'abord, que l'une et l'autre regle etaient parfaitement connues et pratiquees a la chancellerie de Joinville, ensuite qu'on est autorise a modifier le texte de l'Histoire, partout ou ces regles y sont violees. (D'apres un calcul approximatif, on peut croire que le copiste du quatorzieme siecle a viole ces regles plus de quatre mille fois et qu'il les respectait peut-etre une fois ...

— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

... pouvoir politique de l'aristocratie, il faudrait lui oter l'application quotidienne des lois, comme on l'a privee precedemment adu pouvoir de les faire. Il faudrait, par consequent, modifier profondement le systeme administratif et judiciaire qui repose sur l'institution des juges de paix et sur l'organisation des grands jurys, tels qu'ils sont constitues aujourd'hui. Et d'abord, pour executer cette reforme, il ...

— England's Case Against Home Rule • Albert Venn Dicey

... the style of a mechanical inventor is on account of the Jib or Balance Crane of the Bell Rock, which are beautiful contrivances. But the great merit of this engineer was not in the field of engines. He was above all things a projector of works in the face of nature, and a modifier of nature itself. A road to be made, a tower to be built, a harbour to be constructed, a river to be trained and guided in its channel—these were the problems with which his mind was continually occupied; and for these and similar ...

— Records of a Family of Engineers • Robert Louis Stevenson

... harmonizes with the Bible genesis of types (everything modeled after its kind), is far from aiding, or in any way abetting, the materialistic hypothesis of Haeckel, unless we make nature at once the creator and modifier of her own archetype. And even then the variability of species remains unaccounted for, except as we attribute to nature a purpose to modify persistent forms under a law that is immutable even in its variability. For the assumption of an archetype carries with it an archetypal ...

— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... you that one of the greatest boons ever given to the great investigators of the world came through delays. Time is a wonderful reasoner. It is also a great modifier of events. Darwin was prevented for twenty years in promulgating his great thesis; some of the most marvelous inventions took years to bring out and develop into such a state as to make them acceptable to the world. Delays, patiently borne, make strong ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay