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Determiner vs Decider - What's the difference?

determiner | decider |

As a verb determiner

is to determine, establish.

As a noun decider is

a person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.

determiner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).
  • (grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
  • Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
  • * 1901 : Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
    • The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship,

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "determiner")

    Synonyms

    * (word class) determinative

    Derived terms

    * (in grammar) determiner phrase

    See also

    * * * article * demonstrative

    References

    determiner in Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP. ----

    decider

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
  • * 1667 , anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90:
    • This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions.
  • * 1758 , Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey , Philadelphia, p. 680:
    • The Determination of his Majesty, who is the only proper decider of this Matter.
  • * 1885 , Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica , vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190:
    • The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider " (Entschneider ).
  • * 1967 , , "How Decisions are Caused," The Journal of Philosophy, vol 64 no 5, 15 Mar, p. 151:
    • Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.
  • * 2006 April 18, , White House press conference, Washington, DC:
    • "I'm the decider , and I decide what is best."
  • (chiefly, British, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
  • * 2007 Feb 22 (action)'', Liverpool show of unity recalls old magic ''Guardian Sport :
    • . . . when the Welshman laid on the 74th-minute decider .
  • * 2007 Feb. 10 (event)'', France aim to end four years of regret with seven-week sacrifice, ''Guardian Sport :
    • France will meet Ireland again in the probable decider for their World Cup pool.
  • (computing) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.

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