different between identifier vs locator

English

Etymology

identify +? -er

Noun

identifier (plural identifiers)

1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
3. A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
4. (programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
6. (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
7. (databases) A primary key.

Translations

See also

• id
• ID

See also

• identifier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *identificare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.d??.ti.fje/

Verb

identifier

1. to identify
2. to log in

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “identifier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

locate +? -or

Noun

locator (plural locators)

1. One who, or that which, locates.

   I found the opening times for my local branch using the Web site's store locator.

2. (US) One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
3. (travel industry) The unique alphanumeric reference given to each travel booking.

Derived terms

• locator map
• locator outer marker
• Uniform Resource Locator

Anagrams

• carotol, cool art, crotalo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lo?ka?.tor/, [????kä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lo?ka.tor/, [l??k??t??r]

Noun

loc?tor m (genitive loc?t?ris); third declension

1. letter, lessor (person who lets or hires)
2. contractor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

loc?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of loc?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of loc?

References

• locator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• locator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• locator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette