delineator

1. (computing) Synonym of delimiter.Examples: "The values listed for fontstyle are combined using the comma as a delineator: BOLD, ULINE."; ""gawk" is the GNU version of "awk", a powerful pattern-matching program for processing text files that may be composed of fixed- or variable-length records separated by some delineator ( by default, a newline character)."; "The argument "eol" is an argument of mode character and gives the end of line delineator."Synonyms: delimiter

2. (grammar) A suffix used in some Melanesian languages that acts like a determiner and signals that the noun to which it is attached can be used as an agent.Examples: "Thus certain nouns are inherently potential agents, and any other noun can be turned into one by the suffixation of the delineator."; "in fact Scott further includes the class 'Potential Agent' as outranking Human on this scale, defining it as 'any proper noun representing an animate being, any personal pronoun, any inalienably-possessed kin term, or any term to which the delineator has been added. (emphasis ours)."; "If the agent and the patient roles are distributed against the animacy hierarchy, the agent is marked by the ergative suffix -ma (when attached to nounds denoting humans)/-wama (when attached to nounds denoting nonhumans) which is called 'delineator' by Scott (1978: 100-103)."