adjective vs identifier

adjective

noun
  • A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent. 

verb
  • To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective. 

  • To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective. 

adj
  • Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed. 

  • Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure. 

  • Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective. 

identifier

noun
  • Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else. 

  • One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing. 

  • 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. 

  • A primary key. 

  • Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something. 

  • 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). 

  • A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document. 

How often have the words adjective and identifier occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )