identifier vs qualifier

identifier

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

  • 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). 

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

qualifier

noun
  • A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element. 

  • A preliminary stage of a competition. 

  • One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition. 

  • A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another. 

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