Meaning

(Now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent.
2. An identification.
3. (radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
4. (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
5. An identifier.
6. (aviation, intransitive) To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.

Example Sentences

Well, that's the priority. Get the ident.

In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.

[…] the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root.

Word Forms

• more ident
• most ident
• eident
• idents
• identing
• idented

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When Should You Use Ident?

Use ident when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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