Token
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English
Adjective
Token (comparative more Token, superlative most Token)
- Something or someone serving as an expression of something else.
- It was a mere token payment. He still owes us.
- Done as an indication or a pledge; perfunctory, minimal or merely symbolic.
- He made a token tap on the brake pedal at the stop sign.
- 1927, Arthur Robert Burns, Money and Monetary Policy in Early Times, page 393
- If the as had been reduced to a token in 240 BC, it was now a little more token than before.
- 2000, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women, Page 176
- There are still many churches where the participation of women is token.
- 2008, Adrian Blomfield, The Daily Telegraph, Has Russia got a new Stalin?, March 31, 2008
- Just to be on the safe side, the The Kremlin has also banned any of Putin’s serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges.
Noun
Token (plural Tokens)- Something serving as an expression of something else; sign, symbol.
- A keepsake or souvenir.
- Please accept this bustier as a token of our time together.
- A piece of stamped metal used as a substitute for money.
- Subway tokens are being replaced by magnetic cards.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing. Also called a symbol.
- 2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine, page 68
- For each lexeme, the scanner creates a small data package known as a token and passes this data package on to the parser.
- 2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine, page 68
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Verb
Token (third-person singular simple present Tokens, present participle Tokening, simple past and past participle Tokened)
- (philosophy) To symbolize or instantiate
Adjectives for Token
unmistakable; especial; tiniest; expressive; personal; unanimous; crushing; unique; singular; mystic; sensible; glorious; visible; palpable; bounteous; beauteous; outward; tremendous; sunny; amorous; leaden; irritating; meaningful.
Thesaurus
account, adumbration, affect, agent, allegory, alternate, alternative, analogy, annals, aroma, attribute, augur, augury, auspice, backup, badge, baggage check, basis for belief, betoken, betokening, betokenment, billhead, body of evidence, book stamp, bookplate, brand, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, broad arrow, budget, cachet, cast, catalog, chain of evidence, change, changeling, character, characteristic, charactery, cheap, check, chronicle, cipher, clue, coin, colophon, commemoration, comparison, configuration, conventional symbol, copy, correspondence, cosmetic, counter, counterfeit, counterfoil, countermark, countersign, coupon, cut, dangle, data, datum, demonstrate, deputy, develop, differentia, differential, disc, disclose, display, distinctive feature, divine, divulge, docket, documentation, double, dramatize, dummy, earmark, earnest, easy, economic, economy, emblem, emblematic, embody, enact, equal, equivalent, ersatz, evidence, evince, exchange, exhibit, expose to view, express, fact, facts, fake, favor, feature, figure, fill-in, flaunt, flavor, flourish, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, frugal, gesture, ghost, ghostwriter, give sign, give token, glosseme, government mark, government stamp, grounds, grounds for belief, gust, hallmark, harbinger, hat check, highlight, hint, history, icon, iconology, ideogram, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, illuminate, imitation, impress, impression, imprint, incarnate, index, indicant, indicate, indication, indicator, individualism, inexpensive, inventory, item of evidence, keepsake, keynote, label, letterhead, letters, lexeme, lexical form, lineaments, list, locum tenens, logo, logogram, logotype, love knot, low, low-priced, make clear, make plain, makeshift, manageable, manifest, manifestation, mannerism, mark, marker, marking, masthead, material grounds, materialize, mean, memento, memento mori, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, memories, metaphor, metonymy, minimal, mock, moderate, modest, mold, morpheme, muniments, mute witness, nature, next best thing, nominal, odor, omen, open sesame, parade, particularity, password, pawn, peculiarity, perform, perfunctory, personnel, phony, phrase, pictogram, piece of evidence, pinch, pinch hitter, pipe roll, plate, point to, portent, prefiguration, prefigure, preindicate, preindication, premises, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, present, presign, presignal, presignify, presignifying, pretypify, price tag, produce, prognostic, prognostication, promise, proof, property, provisional, proxy, quality, quirk, reason to believe, reasonable, record, recording, register, registered trademark, registry, relevant fact, relic, relief, remains, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, replacement, represent, representative, reserve, reserves, reveal, ringer, roll, roll out, rolls, roster, rota, running head, running title, savor, scrip, scroll, seal, second string, secondary, secret grip, security, semasiological unit, sememe, sensible, set forth, shabby, shadow, shape, shibboleth, shoddy, show, show forth, sigil, sign, signet, signifiant, significant, signify, singularity, slight, slug, smack, soothsay, souvenir, spare, spares, specialty, spell, spotlight, stamp, stand-in, sticker, stopgap, stub, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superficial, superseder, supplanter, surface, surrogate, symbol, symbolic, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, symptom, synecdoche, table, tag, taint, tally, tang, taste, temporary, tentative, term, tessera, third string, ticket, title page, token of remembrance, tokening, totem, totem pole, trace, trade name, trademark, trademark name, trait, trick, trophy, trot out, type, typify, understudy, unexpensive, unfold, utility, utility player, vestige, vicar, vicarious, vice-president, vice-regent, warrant, watchword, wave, within means, word, worth the money
Etymology
From Middle English taken, token, from Old English tācen, from Proto-Germanic *taiknan 'sign' (cf. Dutch teken, German Zeichen, Swedish tecken), from Proto-Indo-European *deig̑- (cf. Latin index 'finger', Ancient Greek deigma 'sample'), variant of *deik̑ 'to show'. More at toe.
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See also
- (philosophy): particular, universal, type
Dutch
Noun
Token m. and n. (plural Tokens, diminutive Tokentje)
Etymology
From English token.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtokən/
Notes
There is no general agreement about the gender. In the south, people tend to use ‘het’, whereas in the north, ‘de’ is preferred.
Anagrams
Swedish
Noun
Token
- definite singular of tok
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