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Definition of descriptor
: something (such as a word or characteristic feature) that serves to describe or identify; especially : a word or phrase (such as an index term) used to identify an item (such as a subject or document) in an information retrieval system
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After all, in the last month alone, Macron is the third wife of a president to earn that descriptor, after the first lady of South Korea and Trump's own wife.
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One of the many jokes in The Good, The Bad, The Weird is that those descriptors don't just apply to its three main characters—
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Those descriptors would seem to overlap with partisanship.
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That's an apt descriptor, given that women still account for an average of just 20% of board seats nationwide, according to Egon Zehnder's 2016 Global Board Diversity Analysis.
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The greatest charms of shopping on the Palace website are the descriptors for each item, gnomic bricks of all-caps poetry.
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The words 'push' or 'swat' would also be apt descriptors — anything that connotes 'unwarranted physical contact.'
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So, people were coming up with new descriptors, ways of describing handcrafted features.
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The band's music is important—a descriptor that's at once accurate and annoying.
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Origin and Etymology of descriptor
see describe
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