A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
A descriptive linguistic survey.
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
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.