descriptorn.

Brit.

/dᵻˈskrɪptə/, U.S.

/dəˈskrɪptər/,

/diˈskrɪptər/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin descriptor.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin descriptor person who describes (4th cent.) < classical Latin dēscrīpt- , past participial stem of dēscrībere describe v. + -or -or suffix. In sense 2 after use of the Latin word in this sense in a Danish linguistic context in V. Brøndal Ordklasserne (1928) 72.

1. A person who or thing which describes something; a describer. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > one who describes

descriptor1528

describer?1550

painter1570

presenter1608

delineator1631

imagera1680

detailer1794

descriptionist1819

pictorialist1839

word-painter1839

delineatress1848

1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 665 Efter the myndis of the cosmographouris, That is to say, the wardlis discriptouris.

1830 New Baptist Misc. Sept. 365/2 Paul wrote the Epistle to the Romans, and..John was the descriptor of the Apocalyptic Visions.

2008 P. Tickle Great Emergence v. 77 Classical physics..was the descriptor of the visible world,..quantum physics..was the descriptor of the invisible world.

2. Linguistics. Viggo Brøndal's term for: the concept of quality (quality n. 10a), one of four concepts (along with descriptum, relator, and relatum) which, in various combinations, form the logical basis of all parts of speech. Cf. descriptum n. 2, relator n. 5, relatum n. 2. Now rare.Broadly corresponding to the Aristotelian category of quality.

ΚΠ

1933 O. Jespersen Syst. Gram. 12 Recently V. Brøndal..has made a very bold attempt at a completely new system [sc. of word-classes]..Relator (R) and Relatum (r), Descriptor (D) and Descriptum (d).

1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. v. 157 The descriptum corresponds to quantity and has its pure expression in numerals; the descriptor with quality and is pure in adverbs.

1965 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 61 184 Brøndal's scheme of relatum, descriptum, descriptor, and relator is a return under other names to a semantic system of substance, quantity, quality and relation respectively.

a. Linguistics, Semiotics, and Philosophy. In various classifications of linguistic or semiotic units: a word, expression, sign, etc., which has a descriptive function.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word

hard word1533

household word1574

magic word1581

grandam words1598

signal word1645

book worda1670

wordie1718

my whole1777

foundling1827–38

keyword1827

Mesopotamia1827

thought-word1844

word-symbol1852

nursery word1853

pivot word1865

rattler1865

object word1876

pillow word1877

nonce-word1884

non-word1893

fossil1901

blessed word1910

bogy-word1919

catch-all1922

pseudo-word1929

false friend1931

plus word1939

descriptor1946

meta-word1952

discourse marker1967

shrub2008

1946 C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior iii. 76 Descriptors, identifiors which describe a location.

1947 R. Carnap Meaning & Necessity i. 6 Some terms with the ending ‘-tor’ for kinds of expressions..e.g...‘descriptor’ (for the customary ‘description’), ‘abstractor’ (for ‘abstraction expression’), ‘connector’ (for ‘connective’), [etc.].

1985 R. Quirk et al. Comprehensive Gram. Eng. Lang. 288 Proper nouns often combine with descriptive words which we will call descriptors, and which also begin with a capital letter, to make composite names like Senator Morse, Dallas Road.

2012 J. Feist Premodifiers in Eng. iii. 69 Most noun premodifiers are Classifiers;..most participial premodifiers are Descriptors.

b. Computing. Any of various items of data, files, etc., that describe one or more aspects of another such entity (e.g. a location within memory). Often with distinguishing word.In early use, descriptors often appear as components in information retrieval systems, in which they functioned as a means of characterizing documents or other physical entities in a way a machine could process.

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > unit of data

data point1910

data field1929

descriptor1954

item1954

record1957

data packet1959

field1959

struct1971

datagram1976

1954 IRE Trans. Information Theory 4 112 An average of approximately 8 or 10 descriptors are used in the characterization of any document such as a technical report, journal article, or the like.

1968 Computer Oriented Single-Fingerprint Identification Syst. (U.S. Dept. Commerce Techn. Note No. 443) 1 A second computer program reads the descriptors corresponding to two different fingerprint impressions from magnetic tape.

1981 R. M. McKeag & A. M. Macnaghten Constr. Programs i. 37 The details of the current state of a process stack and other information are held in a process descriptor.

1992 PC Mag. 16 June 346/1 The value in a segment register is used to retrieve a segment descriptor.

2014 R. da Silva Torres in A. Fox & J. P. Leidig Digital Libraries Applic. i. 6 For the color property, MPEG-7 has defined a number of histogram descriptors, a dominant colour descriptor, and a color layout descriptor.

c. gen. A word or phrase used to describe something or someone; a descriptive term.

ΚΠ

1965 Amer. Anthropologist 67 502 ‘Modest means’ is a most ambiguous descriptor.

1976 Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) 22 Feb. How can descriptors such as ‘exciting’ and ‘showcase quality’ be employed to describe a mechanical, sophomoric performance fraught with wrong notes?

1993 H. Gardner Creating Minds viii. 307 Her accomplishments—about two hundred separate dances—merit the descriptor ‘legendary’.

2008 Magnet No. 79. 123 Gardner calls it ‘Western rock’ (an apt descriptor for both the music and the lyrics).

4. Philosophy. R. M. Hare's term for: the descriptive content of an utterance. Cf. descriptive adj. 2c.In his later work, Hare used the term phrastic in place of descriptor.

ΚΠ

1949 R. M. Hare in Mind 58 27 I shall call the part of a sentence which performs the descriptive function of that sentence its ‘descriptor’. In sentences (1) and (2) above [sc. imperative sentences], the descriptor is not explicit.

1952 E. W. Hall What is Value vi. 127 R. M. Hare has distinguished between the ‘descriptor’ and the ‘dictor’ of an imperative, corresponding to my distinction between what is commanded and the command-element.

2002 UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 14 236 For Hare,..the part of a sentence that performs the descriptive function is known as the descriptor, which..is identical to the speech-act notion of descriptive content or propositional content.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	descriptor
释义	descriptorn. Brit. /dᵻˈskrɪptə/, U.S. /dəˈskrɪptər/, /diˈskrɪptər/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin descriptor. Etymology: < post-classical Latin descriptor person who describes (4th cent.) < classical Latin dēscrīpt- , past participial stem of dēscrībere describe v. + -or -or suffix. In sense 2 after use of the Latin word in this sense in a Danish linguistic context in V. Brøndal Ordklasserne (1928) 72. 1. A person who or thing which describes something; a describer. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > one who describes descriptor1528 describer?1550 painter1570 presenter1608 delineator1631 imagera1680 detailer1794 descriptionist1819 pictorialist1839 word-painter1839 delineatress1848 1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 665 Efter the myndis of the cosmographouris, That is to say, the wardlis discriptouris. 1830 New Baptist Misc. Sept. 365/2 Paul wrote the Epistle to the Romans, and..John was the descriptor of the Apocalyptic Visions. 2008 P. Tickle Great Emergence v. 77 Classical physics..was the descriptor of the visible world,..quantum physics..was the descriptor of the invisible world. 2. Linguistics. Viggo Brøndal's term for: the concept of quality (quality n. 10a), one of four concepts (along with descriptum, relator, and relatum) which, in various combinations, form the logical basis of all parts of speech. Cf. descriptum n. 2, relator n. 5, relatum n. 2. Now rare.Broadly corresponding to the Aristotelian category of quality. ΚΠ 1933 O. Jespersen Syst. Gram. 12 Recently V. Brøndal..has made a very bold attempt at a completely new system [sc. of word-classes]..Relator (R) and Relatum (r), Descriptor (D) and Descriptum (d). 1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. v. 157 The descriptum corresponds to quantity and has its pure expression in numerals; the descriptor with quality and is pure in adverbs. 1965 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 61 184 Brøndal's scheme of relatum, descriptum, descriptor, and relator is a return under other names to a semantic system of substance, quantity, quality and relation respectively. 3. a. Linguistics, Semiotics, and Philosophy. In various classifications of linguistic or semiotic units: a word, expression, sign, etc., which has a descriptive function. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word hard word1533 household word1574 magic word1581 grandam words1598 signal word1645 book worda1670 wordie1718 my whole1777 foundling1827–38 keyword1827 Mesopotamia1827 thought-word1844 word-symbol1852 nursery word1853 pivot word1865 rattler1865 object word1876 pillow word1877 nonce-word1884 non-word1893 fossil1901 blessed word1910 bogy-word1919 catch-all1922 pseudo-word1929 false friend1931 plus word1939 descriptor1946 meta-word1952 discourse marker1967 shrub2008 1946 C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior iii. 76 Descriptors, identifiors which describe a location. 1947 R. Carnap Meaning & Necessity i. 6 Some terms with the ending ‘-tor’ for kinds of expressions..e.g...‘descriptor’ (for the customary ‘description’), ‘abstractor’ (for ‘abstraction expression’), ‘connector’ (for ‘connective’), [etc.]. 1985 R. Quirk et al. Comprehensive Gram. Eng. Lang. 288 Proper nouns often combine with descriptive words which we will call descriptors, and which also begin with a capital letter, to make composite names like Senator Morse, Dallas Road. 2012 J. Feist Premodifiers in Eng. iii. 69 Most noun premodifiers are Classifiers;..most participial premodifiers are Descriptors. b. Computing. Any of various items of data, files, etc., that describe one or more aspects of another such entity (e.g. a location within memory). Often with distinguishing word.In early use, descriptors often appear as components in information retrieval systems, in which they functioned as a means of characterizing documents or other physical entities in a way a machine could process. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > unit of data data point1910 data field1929 descriptor1954 item1954 record1957 data packet1959 field1959 struct1971 datagram1976 1954 IRE Trans. Information Theory 4 112 An average of approximately 8 or 10 descriptors are used in the characterization of any document such as a technical report, journal article, or the like. 1968 Computer Oriented Single-Fingerprint Identification Syst. (U.S. Dept. Commerce Techn. Note No. 443) 1 A second computer program reads the descriptors corresponding to two different fingerprint impressions from magnetic tape. 1981 R. M. McKeag & A. M. Macnaghten Constr. Programs i. 37 The details of the current state of a process stack and other information are held in a process descriptor. 1992 PC Mag. 16 June 346/1 The value in a segment register is used to retrieve a segment descriptor. 2014 R. da Silva Torres in A. Fox & J. P. Leidig Digital Libraries Applic. i. 6 For the color property, MPEG-7 has defined a number of histogram descriptors, a dominant colour descriptor, and a color layout descriptor. c. gen. A word or phrase used to describe something or someone; a descriptive term. ΚΠ 1965 Amer. Anthropologist 67 502 ‘Modest means’ is a most ambiguous descriptor. 1976 Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) 22 Feb. How can descriptors such as ‘exciting’ and ‘showcase quality’ be employed to describe a mechanical, sophomoric performance fraught with wrong notes? 1993 H. Gardner Creating Minds viii. 307 Her accomplishments—about two hundred separate dances—merit the descriptor ‘legendary’. 2008 Magnet No. 79. 123 Gardner calls it ‘Western rock’ (an apt descriptor for both the music and the lyrics). 4. Philosophy. R. M. Hare's term for: the descriptive content of an utterance. Cf. descriptive adj. 2c.In his later work, Hare used the term phrastic in place of descriptor. ΚΠ 1949 R. M. Hare in Mind 58 27 I shall call the part of a sentence which performs the descriptive function of that sentence its ‘descriptor’. In sentences (1) and (2) above [sc. imperative sentences], the descriptor is not explicit. 1952 E. W. Hall What is Value vi. 127 R. M. Hare has distinguished between the ‘descriptor’ and the ‘dictor’ of an imperative, corresponding to my distinction between what is commanded and the command-element. 2002 UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 14 236 For Hare,..the part of a sentence that performs the descriptive function is known as the descriptor, which..is identical to the speech-act notion of descriptive content or propositional content. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1528
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