EGAVE

ident

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Diligent; persistent.
  2. noun An identification.
  3. noun A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
  4. noun A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
  5. noun An identifier. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  6. verb To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.

Similar words

answer identifying identification identify identifier designator badge io workish swear

Often followed by

of and i in if is as protocol to

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