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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Descriptor |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DED | English | Data Element Descriptor | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: DESCRIPTOR |
| Specialty definitions using "DESCRIPTOR": acido mefenamico ♦ B.F.E., Big bag of pages, broader term partitive ♦ collective term ♦ elimination of descriptors ♦ fd leak, file descriptor, file descriptor leak, functor ♦ High End Exposure ♦ narrower term partitive, note on definition or on use ♦ partitive term, PDS/MaGen, protected mode, pteroyl glutamic acid ♦ role indicator ♦ scope note, standard input/output ♦ testability, top term, trådførerøje ♦ ZAPP. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DESCRIPTOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DESCRIPTOR" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 52 | 47,145 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DESCRIPTOR": delimiter descriptor table ♦ file descriptor ♦ file descriptor leak. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DESCRIPTOR": non-descriptor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DESCRIPTOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 形容 志. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | DDT-tabel (delimiter descriptor table). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | delimiter descriptor table (delimiter descriptor table). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | erottimien kuvaustaulukko (delimiter descriptor table). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | descripteur (describer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Deskriptor (capability, descriptive data), Beschreiber (describer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πίνακας περιγραφέα οριοθέτη (delimiter descriptor table). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 記述子 , 記述 (describing), ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ディスクリプタ , きじゅつし (conjurer, juggler, magician), きじゅつ (aforesaid, describing, magic, previously mentioned or described). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 기 자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | escriptorday tabela de descrição de delimitadores (delimiter descriptor table). (various references) дескриптор. (various references) tabla del descriptor delimitador (delimiter descriptor table). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DESCRIPTOR": descriptors. (additional references) | |
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"DESCRIPTOR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: descripter, descripton, discriptor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: predictors. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: creditors, depictors, directors, predictor, recordist. | |
-2 letters: cordites, creditor, depictor, despotic, diopters, dioptres, director, percoids, peridots, pierrots, predicts, proteids, rescript, ripcords, riposted, scripted, scripter, sportier, topsider. | |
-3 letters: cestoid, cirrose, coedits, copiers, copters, corders, cordite, corries, credits, crisped, crisper, crosier, depicts, deports, deposit, diopter, dioptre, directs, discept, disport, dopiest, dorpers, editors, erotics, orrices, percoid, peridot. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: descriptors. | |
+2 letters: depreciators, dipterocarps, directorship. | |
+3 letters: directorships, redescription, reproductions, reproductives. | |
+4 letters: particleboards, preproductions, procrastinated, redescriptions. | |
+5 letters: overproductions. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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