Ident
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An identification.
"Well, that's the priority. Get the ident."
- 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 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 An identifier.
- 1 To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature. intransitive
- 1 Diligent; persistent. Northern-England, Scotland
Example
More examples"Well, that's the priority. Get the ident."
Etymology
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.
A shortened form of identification.
A shortened form of identify.
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