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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈaɪdənt/ Forms: more ident [comparative], most ident [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪdənt 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. Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|ithen}} Middle English ithen, {{der|en|non|iðinn||assiduous, diligent}} Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), {{suffix|en|ithe|and}} ithe + -and, {{suffix|en|ithe|en}} ithe + -en, {{cog|is|iðinn||diligent}} Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), {{cog|no|idig||busy}} Norwegian idig (“busy”), {{cog|da|id||pursuit, calling, business}} Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} ident (comparative more ident, superlative most ident)
  1. (Now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland Synonyms: eident [Scotland] Derived forms: idently
    Sense id: en-ident-en-adj-1B9j2bh1 Categories (other): Northern England English, Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -and, English terms suffixed with -en, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 1 10 12 10 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 56 2 7 10 7 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 70 2 4 6 3 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈaɪdɛnt/ Forms: idents [plural]
Etymology: Shortened form of identification. Head templates: {{en-noun}} ident (plural idents)
  1. Identification.
    Sense id: en-ident-en-noun-Yay9o6O~
  2. (radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster. Categories (topical): Radio, Television
    Sense id: en-ident-en-noun-tlt6Y6AI Topics: broadcasting, media, radio, television
  3. (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-ident-en-noun-VXBTPDQH
  4. Identifier.
    Sense id: en-ident-en-noun-IkuW7OdK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈaɪdɛnt/ Forms: idents [present, singular, third-person], identing [participle, present], idented [participle, past], idented [past]
Etymology: Shortened form of identify Head templates: {{en-verb}} ident (third-person singular simple present idents, present participle identing, simple past and past participle idented)
  1. (aviation) activate the aircraft transponder identification feature. Categories (topical): Aviation
    Sense id: en-ident-en-verb-fuyjgjPf Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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  "word": "ident"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.