different between modifier vs modify

English

Etymology

modify +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?d?fa??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?d?fa??/
• Hyphenation: mod?i?fi?er

Noun

modifier (plural modifiers)

1. One who, or that which, modifies.
2. (grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase.
3. (programming) A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.

Synonyms

• qualifier

Derived terms

Related terms

• postmodifier
• premodifier

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin modific?, modific?re, from modus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.di.fje/

Verb

modifier

1. to change, modify

Conjugation

Related terms

• modifiable
  • immodifiable
  • modifiabilité
• modification
  • modificateur
• modifieur

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English modifien, from Middle French modifier, from Latin modificare (“to limit, control, regulate, deponent”), from modificari (“to measure off, set bound to, moderate”), from modus (“measure”) + facere (“to make”); see mode.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?d?fa?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?d?fa?/
• Hyphenation: mod?i?fy

Verb

modify (third-person singular simple present modifies, present participle modifying, simple past and past participle modified)

1. (transitive) To change part of.
2. (intransitive) To be or become modified.
3. (transitive) To set bounds to; to moderate.
4. (grammar, transitive) To qualify the meaning of.
   • 1977, Linda R. Waugh, A Semantic Analysis of Word Order: Position of the Adjective in French

     There is inherently no ordering to the modification and no hierarchy of modification: that is, both adjectives modify the substantive and both apply equally to the substantive...

   • 2016, Allen Ascher, The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing

     Adjectives modify nouns.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• adapt, alter, amend, revamp, rework

Related terms

• modification

Derived terms

• modifier

Translations

References

• modify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• modify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• domify