Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who determines or decides; an arbitrator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who determines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A determining
factor . - noun obsolete One who
determines .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, yes, because in the world of adults, truth is the determinator.
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Well, yes, because in the world of adults, truth is the determinator.
Jack Healey: Introducing 'The Adults,' a New Group of Truth-Tellers 2010
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God's will is the undetermined determinator of everything in this world.
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Well, yes, because in the world of adults, truth is the determinator.
Jack Healey: Introducing 'The Adults,' a New Group of Truth-Tellers 2009
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Physical appearance is simply a determinator of "ours" or "theirs" and has been ever since tribal skirmishes began.
10 Thoughts on "Day The Earth Stood Still" Steven Barnes 2008
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The gender analyzer correctly guessed that my blogged was penned by a woman, but there's another online gender determiner determinator? thing called "the gender genie" where you can enter a bunch of text be it blog, poetry, fiction... and that one always pegs me as male.
Up With Linking 2008
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That is, a determinator of the gains that were made in promoting and protecting the human rights of persons with disabilities within the context of South Africa's first decade of democracy.
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The testimony we just heard and a lot of our own research indicates that exit polling has not gotten much better, and it may have gotten worse over the years in being a good determinator in which to make a projection, that as you heard witnesses say, the number of nonresponses drives up the margins of error.
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Now he could get these people to take Mauson before a determinator.
Alarm Clock Everett B. Cole
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If climate change is the determinator, and energy being fossil fuel dominated, then its clear that city living is the root of our problems.
The Guardian World News Leo Hickman 2011
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