Keyword vs Identifier - What's the difference?
keyword | identifier |
Any word used as the key to a code.
(information science) Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.
(programming) A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function etc.
* 1982 , Popular Computing (volume 1, issues 9-12, page 113)
(linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.
To tag with keywords, as for example to facilitate searching.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 12, author=Philip Gefter, title=Type in ‘Native American’ and Search (Someday) 13 Million Photos, work=New York Times
, passage=Besides being able to search the photography collections, of which 3,000 images have been scanned in so far, the feature is meant to provide a more subjective and spontaneous way for visitors to view the art: browsing images, looking at them sequentially and keywording , or tagging, them for themselves and other viewers. }}
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Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
* {{quote-book, year=2001, title=The Career Guide to the Horse Industry, author=Theodore A. Landers
, passage=The Identifier personally inspects each horse in each race by verifying the lip tattoo, body color, head and leg markings, scars, and chestnut (night eyes).
* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track, author=John McEvoy
, passage=The foal papers are documents recording the horse's registration; no horse can start in any race unless his papers are in the hands of the track's identifier .
Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, title=Biometric System and Data Analysis
, passage=Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as as 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier .}}
A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
(programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
(databases) A primary key.
As nouns the difference between keyword and identifier
is that keyword is any word used as the key to a code while identifier is someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.As a verb keyword
is to tag with keywords, as for example to facilitate searching.keyword
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(wikipedia keyword)Alternative forms
* *Noun
(en noun)- Each function has an entry address which must be quoted after the USR keyword .
Synonyms
* (l)Verb
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