determinator
Person who settles
Determinator is a rare or jocular variant of determiner—something or someone that determines an outcome.
In grammar, a determinator is a word that introduces a noun phrase: articles, demonstratives, possessives.
The word occasionally appears in technical contexts but sounds awkward in everyday speech, where determiner or determining factor serves better.
Mechanism for choosing
- discriminatorThing that differentiates
- identifierLabel for recognition
- classifierAssigns items to groups
- definerOne who specifies meaning
designator · qualifier · specifier · distinguisher · differentiator · categorizer · allocator · assigner
selector
Mechanism for choosing
- discriminatorThing that differentiates
- identifierLabel for recognition
- classifierAssigns items to groups
definer · designator · qualifier · specifier · distinguisher · differentiator · categorizer · allocator · assigner · diagnostician
article
Written piece or grammatical word
this · that · these · those · which · what · whose · my · your · his
determinatorequivocator
One who speaks ambiguously
vacillator · waffler · fence-sitter · ditherer · hesitator
determinatorquitter
One who surrenders
defeatist · capitulator · surrenderer · waverer · pushover
- sex determinationEstablishing male or female status
determination, indeterminate, determinate, determinations, determinative, determinately, determinates