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Definition of modifier in English: modifiernoun ˈmɒdɪfʌɪəˈmɑdəˌfaɪ(ə)r 1A person or thing that makes partial or minor changes to something. mood modifiers like Valium and Lithium Example sentencesExamples - Corporate food modifiers go around in lab coats and play with petri-dishes and DNA.
- Some eastern Albertan farmers hold weather modifiers responsible for further disrupting the natural water cycles and dehydrating their already parched land.
- OK, so there's no way a sea breeze is a classic cocktail, but since it conforms to the classic rule - a single spirit base and two modifiers - we'll allow it.
- This is a serious look at America's extreme body modifiers - think tongue splitting, elective amputation and the like.
- When a modified work were downloaded or streamed, both the creator of the original work and the modifier would get a share of the resultant revenue.
- ‘Chocolate is a potent mood modifier,’ says the author.
- We've hired therapists and behavioral modifiers, parent effectiveness training.
- 1.1Grammar A word, especially an adjective or noun used attributively, that restricts or adds to the sense of a head noun (e.g. good and family in a good family house).
Example sentencesExamples - In many of these languages, nouns are composed of modifiers known as prefixes, infixes, and suffixes.
- Proper nouns can: when we talk about London fog, we are using London (a proper noun) as an attributive modifier of the noun fog.
- This is possible because moving can function as an attributive modifier of the head noun pianos.
- Far from being ungrammatical, split infinitives are always an option for modifiers of infinitival clauses, and sometimes the only option.
- Although the modifier in a noun phrase will often be an adjective, it doesn't have to be.
- They have to deal with the here and now and be composed of strong nouns and verbs; rarely are there modifiers, such as adjectives or adverbs.
- 1.2Genetics A gene which modifies the phenotypic expression of a gene at another locus.
Example sentencesExamples - Whenever possible, the interactions were confirmed with additional alleles of each putative modifier gene.
- Consequentially, once the allele attains a significant frequency, the evolution of modifiers that force the gene to be expressed only in males is expected.
- The change in allele frequency at the modifier locus during diploid selection is given by Recombination.
- These results demonstrate the existence of a class of modifiers of gene expression whose effects are associated with transient changes in DNA methylation of specific loci.
- This was explained by the action of rare alleles of autosomal modifiers that can influence or override the sex chromosome genes.
- This shows that the modifier gene did not affect Compact trait expression in the female.
Definition of modifier in US English: modifiernounˈmädəˌfī(ə)rˈmɑdəˌfaɪ(ə)r 1A person or thing that makes partial or minor changes to something. Example sentencesExamples - We've hired therapists and behavioral modifiers, parent effectiveness training.
- OK, so there's no way a sea breeze is a classic cocktail, but since it conforms to the classic rule - a single spirit base and two modifiers - we'll allow it.
- This is a serious look at America's extreme body modifiers - think tongue splitting, elective amputation and the like.
- Corporate food modifiers go around in lab coats and play with petri-dishes and DNA.
- When a modified work were downloaded or streamed, both the creator of the original work and the modifier would get a share of the resultant revenue.
- ‘Chocolate is a potent mood modifier,’ says the author.
- Some eastern Albertan farmers hold weather modifiers responsible for further disrupting the natural water cycles and dehydrating their already parched land.
- 1.1Grammar A word, especially an adjective or noun used attributively, that restricts or adds to the sense of a head noun (e.g. good and family in a good family house).
Example sentencesExamples - Proper nouns can: when we talk about London fog, we are using London (a proper noun) as an attributive modifier of the noun fog.
- This is possible because moving can function as an attributive modifier of the head noun pianos.
- Although the modifier in a noun phrase will often be an adjective, it doesn't have to be.
- In many of these languages, nouns are composed of modifiers known as prefixes, infixes, and suffixes.
- Far from being ungrammatical, split infinitives are always an option for modifiers of infinitival clauses, and sometimes the only option.
- They have to deal with the here and now and be composed of strong nouns and verbs; rarely are there modifiers, such as adjectives or adverbs.
- 1.2Genetics A gene which modifies the phenotypic expression of a gene at another locus.
Example sentencesExamples - This was explained by the action of rare alleles of autosomal modifiers that can influence or override the sex chromosome genes.
- This shows that the modifier gene did not affect Compact trait expression in the female.
- Consequentially, once the allele attains a significant frequency, the evolution of modifiers that force the gene to be expressed only in males is expected.
- Whenever possible, the interactions were confirmed with additional alleles of each putative modifier gene.
- The change in allele frequency at the modifier locus during diploid selection is given by Recombination.
- These results demonstrate the existence of a class of modifiers of gene expression whose effects are associated with transient changes in DNA methylation of specific loci.
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