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Ident

//ˈaɪdənt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Diligent; persistent. Northern-England, Scotland
Noun
  1. 1
    An identification.

    "Well, that's the priority. Get the ident."

  2. 2
    A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.

    "In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents."

  3. 3
    A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks. Internet

    "[…] the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root."

  4. 4
    An identifier.
Verb
  1. 1
    To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe + -and and/or ithe + -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.

Etymology 2

A shortened form of identification.

Etymology 3

A shortened form of identify.

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