ident — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Diligent; persistent.

   Usage

   • Northern-England
   • Scotland

Noun

1. An identification.

   Examples

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

2. A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.

   Examples

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

3. A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.

   Usage

   • Internet

   Examples

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

4. An identifier.

Verb

1. To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.

   Usage

   • Intransitive