Index vs Citator - What's the difference?
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An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index finger; the forefinger.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
(printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
* Arbuthnot
A sign; an indication; a token.
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(programming, computing) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory, to take stock.
(legal) An index of citations of legal cases and other sources
* {{quote-book, 1980, Robert Stuart Lorch, Democratic Process and Administrative Law, page=70
, passage=A citator will tell you the history and treatment of a case or of a statute or constitutional provision.}}
(obsolete) One who makes a citation; a citer or citor
* {{quote-news, 1797, , , Proceedings of the Vhemic or Westphalian Court, Annual Register
, passage=Should the perfon who is summoned conceal himself, letters are written to those among whom he is hid, signifying that he ought to surrender himself at a given time and place ; and if he has taken an asylum in a fortified castle, the citator goes either by night or by day, on foot or on horseback, cuts out three slips from a wooden rail, and places in the incision a coin and the writ of citation.}}
In obsolete terms the difference between index and citator
is that index is a prologue indicating what follows while citator is one who makes a citation; a citer or citor.As nouns the difference between index and citator
is that index is an alphabetical listing of items and their location while citator is an index of citations of legal cases and other sources.As a verb index
is to arrange an index for something, especially a long text.As a proper noun Index
is a town in Washington.index
English
(wikipedia index)Noun
(en-noun)- The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
- Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.
- His son's empty guffaws struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (index finger) arrow-finger, demonstrator, forefinger, index finger, insignitor, lickpot, pointling, showing finger, teacher * See alsoDerived terms
* index locorum * index nominum * index rerum * index term * index verborum * indexic * indexical * indexless * price index * refractive indexReferences
*See also
* (alphabetical listing) table of contentsVerb
(es)Derived terms
* indexerExternal links
* *citator
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
citation