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Specifier vs Modifier - What's the difference?

specifier | modifier |

As a verb specifier

is to specify.

As a noun modifier is

one who, or that which, modifies.

specifier

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or thing that specifies.
  • (label) A component of a phrase that is non-recursive and not found as a sister of the head of the phrase, but rather as a daughter of the maximal projection of the phrase.

    • Derived terms

    modifier

    English

    (wikipedia modifier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, modifies.
  • (grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase.

    • Synonyms

    * qualifier

    Derived terms

    * access modifier * dangling modifier * modifier key

    Related terms

    * postmodifier * premodifier